Festina lente. (Make haste slowly.)
In other words, watch for fakeouts and do not be too quick to hit that buy or sell key. This can go either way.
If Timmy has done his homework the Working Group should be prepped to buy if the market doesn't. Hank would have done so.
Sometimes the right thing to do is absolutely nothing until the market tells you which way it will go.
This is one of those times.
It ought not to matter to the Obama Administration how the equity market reacts in the short term. That is like asking a new batch of crack addicts how they like their first week in rehab.
To elaborate in response to a question, I look at multiple markets for confirmations, not simply one chart like the SP futures. The NASDAQ 100 futures are a ctitical component of this mix for example.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” Marcus Tullius Cicero