S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for TUE 08/24

String of Record Highs To Continue? Last week’s pullback proved transient and the index has closed firmly above our key level and our positional trading models have flipped to a long position on a close above 4440 yesterday, from a flat bias adapted last week. Infrastructure spending talks, Chinese big tech rebound could be the (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for MON 08/23

Market Bull Standing His Ground! Last few sessions of weakness repeatedly tested our models’ published key levels of 4430 and 4385, but the daily close was not breached beyond the flat level, leaving our models in the flat mode since last Wednesday’s close. This morning’s action puts our models back into the bullish bias IF (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for THU 08/19

Beginning of the End of the Bullish Regime? Our morning trading plans yesterday stated: “While the market-pundits parse every word from the Fed meeting minutes today and some go onto an analysis-paralysis, our readers can choose to take advantage of the simplicity and the efficacy of our actionable trading plans to determine their investment/trading actions (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for WED 08/18

Fed Minutes Under the Microscope Today While the market-pundits parse every word from the Fed meeting minutes today and some go onto an analysis-paralysis, our readers can choose to take advantage of the simplicity and the efficacy of our actionable trading plans to determine their investment/trading actions based off of those minutes and the market (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for TUE 08/17

If Itching to Short this Market, Focus on Not Getting Chopped As we stated in our yesterday’s morning traing plans, our models see no sights of any weakness in the index until there is a daily close below 4430. If you are itching to short this market based on news headlines, you should have deep (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for MON 08/16

The Market Bull Standing its Ground The market’s pullback this morning lacked any depth and appears to be just a routine business-as-usual. Our models see no sights of any weakness in the index until there is a daily close below 4430. For positional trading: Our positional trading models have flipped to a bullish bias on (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for FRI 08/13

String of Record Highs to Continue? The index did take out the 4435 level we published on Tue, 08/03 in a convincing manner yesterday, Thu 08/12, and our models are flipping to a bullish bias (again, after the last 90+ point bagger long that we closed earlier) this morning for positional trading. It takes a (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for THU 08/12

Precarious Ascent We wrote in yesterday’s trading plans: “Our models continue to indicate a cautious stance, wanting to see the index take out the 4435 level we published on Tue, 08/03 in a convincing manner today, and hold into the session close”. Our models are not convinced of the price action yesterday, and are not (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for WED 08/11

Red Hot Bull or Red Hot Inflation? Although the “core inflation” is less than expected/feared, the market’s cheering of the numbers underlies the energy and food inflation that average Joes and Janes feels pinched by. And, it reflects a hope and expectation that the energy and food inflation would moderate soon, which remains to be (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for TUE 08/10

All Noise and No Signal Despite the index holding near record highs throughout the last week and posting yet another record high of 4436.52 on Friday’s close (just 1.52 points above the level of 4435 our models are monitoring), our models continue to indicate a cautious stance, wanting to see the index take out the (more…)