S&P 500 OUTLOOK for MON 07/22

Rates Trump Earnings or Rates, Trump, and Earnings? As the earnings season is kicking into gear, the talk of impending economic slowdown and the calls for rate cuts (as deep as 50 basis points) are morphing from a background noise to a clamor. History shows that the interest rates trump the earnings weakness or any (more…)

RESULTS of MODEL TRADES for FRI 07/19

Results of Published Model Trades for FRI 07/19      Find below the detailed outcome tracking of our models’ trading plans for the day, as well as the results for the last month.  (please click here to view the Outlook and Trading Plans published in the morning, that these results refer to) THE GIST: Medium-Frequency Models: (more…)

TODAY IN THE MARKET – FRI 07/19

Note: Our daily “S&P 500 Outlook, Forecast, and Trading plan” will be posted around 9:00am EDT, every trading day. For the Outlook, Forecast, and Trading Plans published this morning, please click here For the Results of the morning’s Trading Plans, please click here. THE GIST (“THE WHAT”) The S&P 500 index held on to small gains (more…)

S&P 500 OUTLOOK for FRI 07/19

More Koolaid or Not – That Seems to be The Question of the Day! As has become evident (again) with yesterday’s market action, investors (or, market “players”?) seem to be hanging on to the “hope” (and, “demand”/”expectation”) that the Fed is going to cut the rates deeply (read, by 50 basis points) this month. But, (more…)

RESULTS of MODEL TRADES for THU 07/18

Results of Published Model Trades for THU 07/18      Find below the detailed outcome tracking of our models’ trading plans for the day, as well as the results for the last month.  (please click here to view the Outlook and Trading Plans published in the morning, that these results refer to) THE GIST: Medium-Frequency Models: (more…)

TODAY IN THE MARKET – THU 07/18

Note: Our daily “S&P 500 Outlook, Forecast, and Trading plan” will be posted around 9:00am EDT, every trading day. For the Outlook, Forecast, and Trading Plans published this morning, please click here For the Results of the morning’s Trading Plans, please click here. THE GIST (“THE WHAT”) The S&P 500 index snapped a two-day losing streak (more…)

S&P 500 OUTLOOK for THU 07/18

No Bull, No Bear…Goldilocks Forever? As we wrote as the theme for the Markets this week, stocks continue to be driven by earnings related headlines (Netflix, anyone?), but the market action’s underpinnings point to technicals at a dominant role rather than fundamentals…for now.   To avoid subjective knee jerk stands about the markets driving your trading (more…)

RESULTS of MODEL TRADES for WED 07/17

Results of Published Model Trades for WED 07/17      Find below the detailed outcome tracking of our models’ trading plans for the day, as well as the results for the last month.  (please click here to view the Outlook and Trading Plans published in the morning, that these results refer to) THE GIST: Medium-Frequency Models: (more…)

TODAY IN THE MARKET – WED 07/17

Note: Our daily “S&P 500 Outlook, Forecast, and Trading plan” will be posted around 9:00am EDT, every trading day. For the Outlook, Forecast, and Trading Plans published this morning, please click here For the Results of the morning’s Trading Plans, please click here. THE GIST (“THE WHAT”) Mixed earnings and disappointing economic data dragged the S&P (more…)

S&P 500 OUTLOOK for WED 07/17

  Complacency or Consolidation? Markets to continue to be driven by – or, appear to be – earnings related headlines but the market action’s underpinnings point to technicals rather than fundamentals…for now.   Check out below to see what our models’ trading plans are for today.  (please click here to check the hypothetical trading results of (more…)