We are in the midst of a Wall street crisis, noted as worst since 1929. LEH, AIG, WM, MER you name it. Its seems shorts are not done selling till they wipe out every institution on the Street.

This the worst selling I have witnessed in last 2 years. Trading Iron Condors and credit spreads is very risky at the moment. Dow has been down 500 points on Monday went up 150 on Tuesday at the close in a dead cat bounce, and than got slammed hard 456 points on Wednesday. Lehman ended up in Bankruptcy and AIG  got saved by Fed’s 85 billion dollar lifeline, but that wasn’t enough to soothe rattled markets and short sellers. Naked short selling has been responsible to much of markets demise lately. Droves of stocks sold naked short, meaning shares were never borrowed. So today, SEC came out with new rules to stop this manipulative behavior of naked short selling. No  more naked short sales.

While the trading is heavy on the short side being long is a non issue. Its quite simple to wait on the sidelines and in stay in cash. Cash is the best instrument that you can possess. Being a prudent and disciplined trader requires that. We shall wait out this expiration period and look for fresh trades when there are favorable opportunities… so stay tuned…