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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Baltic Dry Index Falls, Again... Even as Equities Rally

In Baltic Dry, Global Trade: The Rally in Equities Isn't Real, I wrote: "The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) has been losing steam during this rally in equities. A sustainable trend changing rally in equities would be accompanied by an increase in BDI."

Well, despite a parabolic move in equities yesterday, the BDI actually DROPPED. AGAIN.

I will re-iterate: The shorts got squeezed. Hard. Yesterday the last of them panicked and hit the eject button. Don't mistake this for a new Bull market.

2 comments:

DiverCity said...

Ben, do you, therefore, like SRS here (at approx. $51)?

Anonymous said...

I was wondering the same thing. SRS is at $55, looks attractive. Yesterday's huge down day was an aberration, I believe. Maybe Ben can lend some insight. But there were two strong up days on the 19th and 20th, bounced off the $48 december low, closed near its high for the day, and we're seeing strong volume. Any thoughts?