TRUE NORTH MARKET NOTE I WED 18 JAN 2006  12:00 

Missing in action: Tokyo & chip sector perma-bulls. Usual reward offered.

Pre open all tech v weak as INTC, YHOO, IBM all fall short on numbers. Tokyo stopped 15 min early: what a peculiar market . Last time that happened in NYC was in '87. 

We have pared back exposure to three positions (SNDK, SMH, FDX), all shorts, which is the bare minimum for a reasonable amount of diversity. Thankfully, we caught one of the 'stampede' names, SMH, with a full position, on the short side. This correction should now start to evolve into something more complex than a mini pause before the next run up in all the ususal leaders: EWJ, SMH, GOOG, AAPL, EWZ. In recent months, we'd point out consensus near term thinking has been having a rough time trying to get on the right side of these shifts. It shows, I think, that this is a difficult market phase to analyse with any confidence. Keeping close to the leaders is about the best way we know to stay tuned, and stay (more or less), out of major trouble. This is a volatile world, and equities are one of the most efficient ways to monitor its many moving parts.

Tuesday's intraday note on the transport ETF, IYT, illustrates this point well. This was a major part of the evidence that argued against a multi phase up market, at least right now. A quite distinct -BE D printed right under our noses. Lesson 1.1: Go up against the transports and the semis at your risk!There's a growing feeling around these parts that the Fed has already gone too far, which has been building for a while. Things like transports falling apart bolster that view. One thing we can be sure of: a highly levered consumer with oil at 65+ will be getting the Fed's attention again.     I

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Good luck out there!

Dane Halling


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