The Bear To Consolidate Its Position or Retreat? S&P 500 Index tried to approach and test the key level of 2735 on Tuesday – the index registered the session’s high at 2732.91 as of our Intraday Alert published at 2:10pm (click here for details). Tuesday’s modest gains look more like bear consolidation rather than like (more…)

The Lurking Bear Spotted In the Open! As clearly mentioned in our forecast for Monday – published Sunday night: The bulls seem weakened with the action last week, but still the bearish territory is not in sight yet. The index is approaching the key level of 2740, which could bring in climactic reactions in either (more…)

Tug-of-War – Advantage the Lurking Bear? As indicated in our Models’ Weekend Positioning report published last Friday around 3:30pm (click here for details), our short term/intraday/aggressive models ended the week with a short (sell) position with a stop-loss at 2766. As forecast in that report: “Models are flashing a little weaker bulls and speculate another (more…)

Tug-of-War – Week-2, Day-5…Climactic Friday? As indicated in our Intraday Alert Thursday morning (click here for details), the market broke through the 2760 level in the first hour of the session, triggering a Short position by our intraday models, according to the trading plan given in our forecast published Wednesday night (click here for details). Yes, again profitable (more…)

Tug-of-War Along Our Proprietary Key Levels – Week-2, Day-4? As indicated in our Intraday Alert this morning (click here for details), the market approached two key levels we mentioned in our forecast published last night (click here for details), which mentioned as key levels to base the intraday or medium-term trades off of: 2765 (the Index’s low (more…)

Tug-of-War Along Our Proprietary Key Levels – Week-2, Day-3? As indicated in our Intraday Alert this morning (click here for details), the market approached one of the three key levels our models are monitoring at 2740 to register the day’s low at 2743.19 and then bounced off of that level to close at 2762.59.  As mentioned (more…)

Tug-of-War Along Our Proprietary Key Levels – Week-2, Day-2? To put the “Tug-of-war” into perspective, consider this statistic: In the last ten years (since 2008/06/14), S&P 500 closed within Monday’s 5.91 points range ONLY 68 times out of 2,517 trading sessions! That is, just 2.7% of the times!! That’s how rare Monday’s close is, and (more…)

Tug of War Along Our Proprietary Key Levels In spite of the major geopolitical news headlines (North Korea-US Summit, Fed Interest Rates decision, European Central Bank Interest Rates decision), last week has NOT seen much movement in the S&P 500 Index at all – despite what occasional peek at financial media headlines might have you (more…)

Continuation of Back To Basics? With all the major known geopolitical risks and events out of the way, including Thursday morning’s ECB interest rate decision, it is likely that investors would begin to focus on the BASICS – Profit, Loss, and Risk. Friday morning, there is one important economic release – University of Michigan Consumer (more…)

Most Known Geopolitical Risks Out-of-the-way – Back To Basics? The much awaited North Korea summit, and the much feared FOMC rate decision are out of the way now with no decisive dominance by either the bulls or the bears! Tomorrow morning, before the markets open for the regular session, even the ECB (European Central Bank) (more…)