Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Short SMH with SSG -- Mistake?!

I was wrong with this trade and need to end it.  SHM, long the symbol for the Semiconductor Holders Index changed to SOXX and SMH is now a Market Vectors semiconductors fund. How they correlate with SSG remains to be seen; it is mirroring the apparently incorrect SMH volume! Stochcharts.com has yet to fix its SMH data; it is a combo of the old and new fund for volume -- crazy!  SMH came into being just the end of last month: http://www.vaneck.com/funds/SMH.aspx
 
 Anyway, beware!





The SMH chart appears to be setting up an incredible short, based on volume; look at the ridiculously low volume under the current uptrend!


Short % of Float (as of Dec 15, 2011)

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                                                                       Short % of Float (as of Dec 15, 2011)

Analog Devices Inc                          ADI                         2.30%
Altera Corp                                         ALTR                      <1
Applied Materials Inc                     AMAT                   1.10
Advanced Micro Devices Inc       AMD                      14.90%
Amkor Technology Inc                   AMKR                   17.40%
Atmel Corp                                         ATML                    3.00%
Broadcom Corp                                 BRCM                    1.80%
Intel Corporation                             INTC                      2.20%
KLA-Tencor Corp                              KLAC                      7.90%
Linear Technology Corporation  LLTC                       5.40%
LSI Logic Corp                                     LSI                          2.40%
Micron Technology Inc                  MU                        8.60
National Semiconductor Corp     NSM                     
Novellus Systems Inc                     NVLS                    
SanDisk Corp                                      SNDK                    
Teradyne Inc                                      TER
Texas Instruments Inc                   TXN                       
Xilinx Inc                                              XLNX                    
 







  



























I am using SSG:


The upside would seem to be a retracement of the entire low-volume uptrend of the SMH.

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