Santa Rally, Year-end Rally, January Effect… Despite the sense of the logic of not holding risky assets with high valuations going into the imminent Fed hikes, it is NOT enough rationale to go shorting this market. Bears have many head winds for the next few weeks – the Santa Rally, then the year-end rally, then (more…)
Results of Published Model Trades for TUE 12/21 Find below the detailed outcome tracking of our models’ trading plans for the day, as well as the results for the last month. The horizontal lines on the chart show the price levels corresponding to the trading plans as published in the morning. (Please click here to (more…)
Recovery Attempts to Hold? Notwithstanding any artificial “Santa-rally or Year-end rally” in the offing, we re-iterate – for the next few weeks – what we wrote in our trading plans for Friday, 12/17: “The Fed-induced bubbles in the asset markets are showing signs of deflating swiftly (if not bursting, yet). There are very little – (more…)
Results of Published Model Trades for MON 12/20 Find below the detailed outcome tracking of our models’ trading plans for the day, as well as the results for the last month. The horizontal lines on the chart show the price levels corresponding to the trading plans as published in the morning. (Please click here to (more…)
Our Short from Friday Working Well and Re-iterated Our positional models’ short from the trading plans published Friday, 12/17, morning is doing exceedingly well. We titled our trading plans for Monday, 12/06, with “Get Ready for the Tightening Ahead”, and we held off from much trading since then until after the FOMC release this week. (more…)
Results of Published Model Trades for FRI 12/17 Find below the detailed outcome tracking of our models’ trading plans for the day, as well as the results for the last month. The horizontal lines on the chart show the price levels corresponding to the trading plans as published in the morning. (Please click here to (more…)
The Fed Punchbowl is Taken Away – Party Over! We titled our trading plans for Monday, 12/06, with “Get Ready for the Tightening Ahead”, and we held off from much trading since then until after the FOMC release this week. Our models continue that theme of risk-off. The Fed-induced bubbles in the asset markets are (more…)
Results of Published Model Trades for THU 12/16 Find below the detailed outcome tracking of our models’ trading plans for the day, as well as the results for the last month. The horizontal lines on the chart show the price levels corresponding to the trading plans as published in the morning. (Please click here to (more…)
Is that Grinch or Santa in Disguise? The markets’ reaction to the much anticipated confirmation from the Fed of the tapering and the rate hikes ahead seems to have taken many retail traders by surprise – didn’t almsot everyone kept saying that the markets “should” go down if that happens?! While there can be a (more…)
Getting Setup for the Big Two Events Ahead The recovery from last Friday’s sell-off likely to continue till the inflation numbers event this Friday. Barring any unexpected negative macro developments, it is likely that we may see another record high prior to – or, following – the inflation numbers on Friday. This will, of course, (more…)
