Big Tech Earnings to Trump Economic Slowdown Concerns?

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for THU. 04/27 Yesterday evening’s strong earnings from Meta seems to be adding to the tone of impressive earnings from Microsoft, Google, McDonalds, and Chipotle that all seem to demonstrate that major firms have pricing power to absorb the inflationary pressures. Continued big tech earnings momentum into the next (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for WED. 04/26 – RESULTS

Results of Published Model Trades for WED 04/26 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…)

Today In the Market – Wed 04/26

THE GIST (“THE WHAT”) Blow-out earnings by Microsoft and Alphabet failed to provide a meaningful boost to the morning rally amid ongoing banking turmoil and the looming debt ceiling. The S&P Index (SPX) extended Monday’s losses, falling another 15.62 points (-0.38%) to close near day’s lows at 4056. Note: Our daily “S&P 500 Trading plan” will (more…)

Impressive Earnings Failing to Put Fire Under the Markets

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for WED. 04/26 Otherwise impressive earnings from Microsoft, Google, McDonalds, and Chipotle that all seem to demonstrate that major firms have pricing power to absorb the inflationary pressures fail to push up the markets in a meaningful way, as per the price action so far in the session. No (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for TUE. 04/25 – RESULTS

Results of Published Model Trades for TUE 04/25 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…)

Today In the Market – Tue 04/25

Note: Our daily “S&P 500 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 last published Results of the Morning Trading Plans, please click here. THE GIST (“THE WHAT”) The S&P Index (SPX) closed the risk-off session down 65.40 (more…)

Big Tech, Case Schiller, Consumer Confidence, Fed Manufacturing Index, First Republic…

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for TUE. 04/25 Big Tech earnings, Case Schiller Home Price Indices, Consumer Confidence, New Home Sales, Fed Manufacturing Index, and First Republic Bank’s ongoing turmoil…there is a lot the markets are trying to parse, process, and digest this morning. When there is more than what you can digest, the (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for MON. 04/24 – RESULTS

Directionless and choppy price action extended into the new week as investors await first quarterly earnings from Big Tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Meta which have driven much of this year’s returns so far. Investors will also be closely reading into the earnings of First Republic Bank in the wake of its recent crisis, looking (more…)

Big Tech Earnings to Likely to Unwind the Stuck Markets This Week

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for MON. 04/24 Despite the initial downward momentum post-PMI release last week, markets still seem stuck in the tug-of-war between the “Inflation peaked” optimism and the “recession onset” concerns, and the earnings season so far has failed to give either the bulls or the bears any real traction. The (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for FRI. 04/21 – RESULTS

Results of Published Model Trades for FRI 04/21 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…)