The Fight is Yet to Begin. Soon? While the China trade agreement hype to prop up the markets may be giving way to skepticism, the mutual funds’ potential advanced-window-dressing for the annual closings, and stop hunting of the shorts into the year end…could still pose significant risk to the bears, especially heading into the year (more…)
Shorts Not to Jump the Gun! The overnight futures are indicating just a bit of pressure on the markets, but shorts are cautioned against establishing any long term downside bets prematurely. While the China trade agreement hype to prop up the markets may be giving way to skepticism, the mutual funds’ potential advanced-window-dressing for the (more…)
Markets in a Melt-up Mode or Approaching an Inflection Point? With the daily closes on Friday and Monday, our models are confiming a bullish bias while above 3100. Continued efforts to use China trade agreement potential as a trickle of hype to prop up the markets, the mutual funds’ potential advanced-window-dressing for the annual closings, (more…)
Friday’s Range Break-out Real or Fake? After e-mini overnight futures hit another record high on the S&P 500 Index, chances are high that the regular session would test the break out. Until a definitive deal agreement is announced – or, another concerted effort to hype it up is unleashed – expect some consolidation ahead. As (more…)
Choppy Trading While Range-bound In spite of all the apparent noise around – China trade war (given up on any hopes for any agreement at all anytime soon?), Fed taking away the punch bowl, and the impeachment hearings – the markets seem to be searching for some direction as to taking a stand about the (more…)
Results of Published Model Trades for WED 11/13 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…)
China, Powell, and Impeachment Hearings… The headlines involving the China trade war, Fed speak, and the impeachment hearings (is any investor really worried about them, yet?)…a lot of headline noise with no real substance confining the markets within a rather directionless, choppy range. A big directional move seem to be around, and when it comes (more…)
Are We There, Yet? Due to their naivety of the world view, or arrogance, or ignorance, or willful manipulation (or, a combination of all of these – you pick your proportions based on your own preferences)…this administration has made China control and drive the psyche of the markets and the people of this nation! Today’s (more…)
Markets Likely to Get Hurt by the Trade Agreement Bulls… Overnight futures indicate that the investors seem to be growing listless and confused by the trade agreement bulls…and are likely to call it what it is and begin to tune out the the rhetoric as manipulative and baseless, unless something concrete and credible is presented (more…)
The Bulls seem tired of all the Bulls… of the Trade War Politics With the reports of internal opposition in the white house and among the advisers about the “new phase-1 agreement” which is rolling back the “last new phase-1 agreement announced in October” (yes, October, 2019), investors seem tired of looking for a direction (more…)
