A Small Consolidation, Until Proven Otherwise This morning’s weakness in the markets, post-Amazon earnings disappointment, is within the consolidation range and not indicating any major trouble for the index – at least not yet. A daily close below 4400 will lead to our models re-evaluating the bias. Our positional models’ longs from 4320 level are (more…)

The Fed, Interest Rates, and Inflation Today, it’s going to be all about the Fed, the interest rates outlook, and more importantly the Inflation outlook. Whiel nobody is epxecting the Fed to do or say something unexpected on the interest rates, what they say (and, don’t say) about the rising inflation (that average Joes and (more…)

Waiting for Big Tech Earnings and Fed The record highs are likely to be consolidated while the markets are waiting for the big tech earnings and the Fed to set the mood for the next leg. Our models indicate no directional action until the Fed is out tomorrow after noon. Our positional models’ longs from (more…)

Idle Bouncing Around Ahead? The furious attempt at a comeback yesterday seems to be slowing this morning. And, our models’ pronounced interim top of 4393 is still comfortably in place and can be cemented as a near term top unless it is taken out by this Friday. For positional trading: Our positional trading models are (more…)

Interim Top is Yet to be Tested As we cautioned in our trading plans yesterday: “Investors should be cautious against jumping to a conclusion about a “bear” market – the structure of the indexes is still not broken into a bearish territory, yet”. True to those words, the indexes are making an attempt at a (more…)