GMI down to 2; Getting defensive

The market deteriorated very quickly last week.   The 4 down days occurred on much higher volume than the single up day.   In fact, the up volume of some of the bear   3X ETF’s (EDZ, FAZ, ERY) was the highest I have ever seen, especially on Friday.   The 2X   Ultra short   QQQQ ETF (QID) also had huge up volume. This suggests that the pros are making huge bets on the short side.   The Worden T2108 is now at 21%, not yet at extreme oversold levels, but it is getting there.   The GMI fell

to 2 and the GMI-R is at 3.   By my count, Friday was the 3rd day of the new short term down trend in the QQQQ.   While all of my short term indicators look weak, my weekly indicator remains positive.   For now, this implies to me a short term down-trend within a longer term up-trend.   So, what to do?   I am sold out of almost all stock positions and still have some puts sold on 3X bullish ETF’s.   I may close them out with   losses this week.   This is not the time to be a lone brave person trading against the short term trend.   It is always possible that this short term down trend could turn into a long term down trend.   If that happens I will go to cash in my university pension and trade QID in my IRA. But that would require a much larger decline from these levels. Only time will tell.   The key is to conserve capital so as to take positions once the short and long term trends are again in synch.   Only 9% of the Nasdaq 100 stocks have their MACD above its signal line.   This is a sign of extreme short term weakness.   The QQQQ and SPY are both below their 10 week averages. When this occurs I rarely make money trading growth stocks on the long side.   I still own some GLD and have small hedged positions in NFLX.   This could be another decline that sets up a rally into options expiration in 3 weeks, but we don’t know for sure and I won’t bet on a year end rally. Time to have close stops and be very careful.