Playing Defense

The major US indexes have all pulled back in May. Since April 28th small cap stocks have pulled back the most with a loss of over 4% and the S&P 500 is down a little more than 2%.

While the broad market has been declining the Consumer Staples sector (XLP) has risen over 2 1/2%.

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We are nearing an area that should act as support for the broad markets. If that support area is breached to the downside the odds of a full market correction would go up. If that turns out to be the case I would become even more defense or possibly even play the downside with inverse ETFS (the equivalent of shorting the market for moderate to aggressive accounts.

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