STOCK MARKET BEARISH -- SHORT -- CAUTION

Keybot the Quant flips back to the bear side on Friday at SPX 2367. You saw that XLF was unable to move above the key 23.95 level so you knew that the stock market rally could not receive additional juice. Stocks slump on Friday driven lower by higher volatility and lower copper. The algo flips back to the short side out of the blue like it did late in the Tuesday session when it flipped long. The stock market is sideways choppy.

Copper and volatility are the two key parameters most impacting broad stock market direction currently.

On the last trade that only lasted a couple days, the algo program and actual trading logs marginal gains. The SPX benchmark is up +5.7% this year with the Keybot algo program up +1.8%. Actual trading continues to lag down about one percent thus far this year. Keybot exited SSO and entered SDS.

4/9/17; 7:00 PM EST =

4/7/17; 9:00 AM EST =

4/2/17; 7:00 PM EST EOM EOQ1 =

3/31/17; 3:57 PM EST = +40; signal line is +62

3/31/17; 2:28 PM EST = +56; signal line is +63

3/31/17; 10:17 AM EST = +40; signal line is +64; go short 2367; (Benchmark SPX for 2017 = +5.7%)(Keybot algo this trade = +0.3%; Keybot algo for 2017 = +1.8%)(Actual results this trade = +0.6%; Actual results for 2017 = -0.9%)

3/31/17; 10:00 AM EST = +54; signal line is +66 but algorithm remains long

3/31/17; 9:36 AM EST = +54; signal line is +67 but algorithm remains long

3/30/17; 3:47 PM EST = +70; signal line is +68

3/30/17; 2:18 PM EST = +86; signal line is +69

3/28/17; 3:57 PM EST = +70; signal line is +69; go long 2361; (Benchmark SPX for 2017 = +5.5%)(Keybot algo this trade = +0.8%; Keybot algo for 2017 = +1.5%)(Actual results this trade = +1.4%; Actual results for 2017 = -1.5%)