S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for TUE. 04/11

Exuberant Pumping-up to Settle Back Into Reality? Day 7 In our trading plans published Tue. 04/04, we wrote: “With the quarter-end window dressing, and the new month beginning related artificial/seasonal boost to the markets behind us, the reality of the economy, inflation, and the interest rates soon to be driving the markets again. Whether it (more…)

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for MON. 04/10

Exuberant Pumping-up to Settle Back Into Reality? Day 6 In our trading plans published yesterday, Tue. 04/04, we wrote: “With the quarter-end window dressing, and the new month beginning related artificial/seasonal boost to the markets behind us, the reality of the economy, inflation, and the interest rates soon to be driving the markets again. Whether (more…)

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for WED. 04/05

Exuberant Pumping-up to Settle Back Into Reality? Day 2 In our trading plans published yesterday, Tue. 04/04, we wrote: “With the quarter-end window dressing, and the new month beginning related artificial/seasonal boost to the markets behind us, the reality of the economy, inflation, and the interest rates soon to be driving the markets again. Whether (more…)

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for TUE. 04/04

Exuberant Pumping-up to Settle Back Into Reality? With the quarter-end window dressing, and the new month beginning related artificial/seasonal boost to the markets behind us, the reality of the economy, inflation, and the interest rates soon to be driving the markets again. Whether it would be glass-half-full or glass-half-empty camp that leads remains to be (more…)

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for FRI. 03/31

PCE, Window Dressing, and Witching This morning’s PCE data release was a yawn. While the window dressing is going to exert a push to the upside, the quarterly index options’ positioning looks to be exerting a pull to the downside. Which side wins – especially in the last hour – could determine how we close (more…)

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for THU. 03/30

Window Dressing Buoying The Markets? As we wrote in our trading plans on Tue., 03/28: “However, our models indicate the risk for the markets to spike to the upside rather than to the downside, owing to the potential for quarter-end window dressing. We will get more clarity on this potential as we approach Friday”. Our (more…)

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for WED. 03/29

Choppiness to Persist Into Friday? As we wrote in our trading plans for yesterday, Tue., 03/28: “However, our models indicate the risk for the markets to spike to the upside rather than to the downside, owing to the potential for quarter-end window dressing. We will get more clarity on this potential as we approach Friday”. (more…)

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for TUE. 03/28

Rising Yields Back In Focus With the banking chaos now a bit settled, the markets seem to be focusing back on Interest rates (and, hence inflation). The rising yields today seem to be holding back the markets. However, our models indicate the risk for the markets to spike to the upside rather than to the (more…)

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for FRI. 03/24

When Bank Safes Don’t Feel Safe Anymore… Not just U.S. regional banks, but CreditSuisse the other day and now Deutsche Bank…investors seem to be wondering if they can feel safe with their banks, and that could lead to them first selling and then asking questions. So far, there doesn’t seem to be much of a (more…)