The skidded for a second session on Wednesday, giving up -0.7% and erasing aast week’s positive factors.

As I warned readers late final week and  on Tuesday:

If you’re not taking income when you’ve gotten them, you gained’t have income left to take.

Final week’s consumers who did not heed this warning watched all these income slip between their fingers. Greed doesn’t pay on this market, and it has been zinging each bulls and bears during the last a number of weeks and months.

The debt ceiling bickering continues, and that is sufficient to cool demand for shares close to 52-week highs. As I’ve written earlier than, the debt deal will nonetheless get finished as a result of the implications of it not taking place are too nice.

However as is common, a deal gained’t be caught till the ultimate hour, and we must always count on the headlines to get even uglier earlier than then.

This cussed standoff is SOP for partisan politics. And most merchants know this, that’s why shares aren’t considerably decrease. However on the similar time, this background noise is sufficient to maintain buyers from enthusiastically pushing shares even increased.

As for what comes subsequent, count on the uneven, sideways commerce to proceed. We’re not going anyplace, however that gained’t cease impulsive merchants from leaping from one facet of the boat to the opposite.

Till additional discover, we maintain buying and selling in opposition to these swings. Which means this week’s swoon is a shopping for alternative.

Typically it takes a number of bounce makes an attempt earlier than the actual one comes alongside, however that bounce is coming. And identical to how bulls obtained stung this week, bears urgent their shorts this week are making the identical mistake.

That is the type of market the place if we’re not taking income, we are going to take losses a number of days later.