Clean Out Day For Commodities & Oil

Commodities
I completed selling out my position in the commodities basket today as the ETF reached hefty
short term overbought levels. DBC Chart For more, see yesteray's post below.

Oil
As posted on June 2, I put oil on my buy list because it was deeply oversold in the short run.
I did go long shortly after, and this time out, I gave the USO oil price tracker a shot when West
Texas crude crossed back above $80 bl. I sold out this position today primarily because the
recent run up was just too zippy relative to fundamentals for my comfort .USO Chart
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I am now about 90% cash. I do have a natural gas long position which I have been nuturing,
but this a long term postion I started last year, figuring if the guys at Exxon Mobil were willing
to put large $ to work exploring for and producing gas, maybe I should, too. Whatever your
feelings about this monster company, note that few careful observers have ever thought of
them as dumb.

Since I view the economic outlook for the US as very uncertain, my attitude toward trading
has been to look at deep oversolds and very hefty overboughts as candidates for long or
short positions. I will happily return to the oil and broad commodities market when good
shorter term opportunities arise. I have been very tempted to short the hell out of the long
Treasury market, but the stars have not lined up quite right yet. I have skipped the equities
market because volume and price momentum have not been convincing, although breadth
has been strong.