Monday Market Meltdown – Greece is so Bad we’re Ignoring China!

I love a good distraction!  

One of the great things about being good at forecasting the Futures is that we were not only 100% prepared for Greece to melt down (our Short-Term Portfolio was already up 152% as of Friday’s close) but we’re already done talking about it and looking ahead to the much bigger Financial crisis in CHINA!!!  

If you are a typical short-term, short-sighted, impatient investor (they kind we make money off every day), now is a good time to click away and look for someone to explain to you what’s going on in Greece.  I liked Felix Salmon’s “I Haven’t Been Paying Attention. What’s Going On In Greece?” enough to send it to the 1,000 people who asked me that this weekend.  Greek markets are closed today (and will be all week along with the banks) but the Greek ETF (GREK) is trading and will open down 15-20% by my estimation.  

As I said, I’m bored with Greece, we discussed it all weekend (and all year, and all month) in Member Chat, so you can catch up HERE, and we already played our strong bounce lines in the Futures and took our profits at:

• Dow (/YM) 17,670
• S&P (/ES) 2,075
• Nasdaq (/NQ) 4,430 
• Russell (/TF) 1,264.20

Those are the strong bounce lines per our fabulous 5% Rule™ and we were able to predict them last night at 6pm, when the market opened and I tweeted out our long ideas as well as the exits and even used Seeking Alpha’s Stock Talks to make sure all my readers got a chance to play.  Now it’s time to look at CHINA!!!, where the bi-weekly emergency measures to prop up their markets have already FAILED this morning.  As I said on Friday in “Let’s Ignore China (again) and Terrorism Today!“:

At $47.75, FXI should open lower this morning and we do expect China to step in with more stimulus but the Aug $45.50 puts at $1 are still a fun way to play if you don’t like

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Provided courtesy of Phil’s Stock World.