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With all the trauma and awfulness foisted upon bears, there is one tried and true financial instrument that has never left our side: the Dow Utilities. Here, in the guise of XLU, I presented this symphony of sinewaves:

Looking closely, you can see it gave us a scare on Thursday, but it has resumed moving in the fashion in which God himself intended.

I have one and only one problem with this position: my puts expire in March, a mere 39 days from now, and I think this sucker (the $UTIL is below) is going to go a LOT lower for a LOT longer, so I might have to get some farther-out puts if a bounce ever provides me a decent entry point.

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