TODAY IN THE MARKET – MON 07/01

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”) Euphoria over the much-expected temporary trade truce between the (more…)

S&P 500 OUTLOOK for MON 07/01

When Sojourning Leads to Celebrating As If Reached the Destination…STOP and THINK! Almost every major financial news media predicted the outcome of a thin-on-details “truce” on further tariffs than any substantive progress towards an agreement or a resolution to the trade war. And, yet, the overnight futures action is exuberant and indicating significant gap up (more…)

TODAY IN THE MARKET – FRI 06/28

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 extended its choppy trading within a (more…)

S&P 500 OUTLOOK for FRI 06/28

This Weekend’s G-20 Summit the Destination or a Soujorn for the Long, Winding Trade War? We all have seen this movie before – we are told, “we are just about to announce the trade agreement” only to realize that there was really nothing of substance to see – for months! Will this weekend’s G-20 summit (more…)

RESULTS of MODEL TRADES for THU 06/27

Results of Published Model Trades for Thu 06/27      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 06/27

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”) Cautious optimism ahead of the keenly-awaited G20 Summit lifted (more…)

S&P 500 OUTLOOK for THU 06/27

Directionless Trading to Continue into the G-20 Summit Weekend Barring any major, unexpected economic or geopolitical headlines, the markets are likely going to be in a holding pattern until the G-20 summit, which could shed some light on the potential for any resolution to the trade war.  With the interest rate cut hopes drying up, (more…)

RESULTS of MODEL TRADES for WED 06/26

Results of Published Model Trades for Wed 06/26      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 06/26

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 closed lower for the fourth (more…)

S&P 500 OUTLOOK for WED 06/26

  Powell’s Diffidence-turned-Dissidence to Torpedo Markets Buoyed by Rate-cut Hope/Hype? Chairman Powell’s remarks cautionary words about not succumbing to “short term political pressures” should – and did – sound alarm bells for the markets buoyed mainly by hope/hype about imminent interest rate cuts starting in as early as July. Can the markets sustain Powell’s dashing (more…)