The Weekly View: A Risk Management Strategy
Comment of the Day

June 15 2011

Commentary by David Fuller

The Weekly View: A Risk Management Strategy

My thanks to Rod Smyth, Bill Ryder and Ken Liu of RiverFront Investment Group for their astute timing letter.

David Fuller's view Read the second paragraph for their "70% probability" outcome for the remainder of 2011. It is very optimistic, although they look for some additional downside first.

I agree. The technical rallies from short-term oversold conditions in stock markets which I sensed yesterday turned out to be 1-day wonders, or figments of the imagination. We have seen more capitulation selling today. This included a downside key day reversal in Brent crude. This is the third downward dynamic shown since the early-April high was tested later that month (see also Eoin's comments below).

Brent is probably the most important chart in terms of what happens over the lengthy medium term, which I will define here as at least the next three quarters. Meanwhile, some heavy capitulation selling in crude over the next three months would considerably increase prospects for a bullish 4Q in equities.

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