Initial Jobless Claims and Surging Commodity Prices
While Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is the headline of the day, lost in that are the initial jobless claims numbers released this morning. With such jobs numbers and the rising commodity prices due to the geopolitical tensions, the Fed is likely going to be caught between a rock and a hard place in its next meeting. These are the bigger threats to the financial markets than Putin, at least for now.
After entering into an indeterminate state earlier this week, our models are adapting a cautiously bearish bias. The cautioin is because of the techincal levels approaching major support levels here, and the near term possibility for a sharp spike up even if the directionality may be downward for a while.
Positional Trading Models: Our positional models indicate going short on a break below 4255 or 4195 with a 35-point stop loss. These levels continue to be in force until withdrawn or replaced by other levels.
Intraday/Aggressive Models indicate the trading plans below for today:
Trading Plans for THU 02/24:
Aggressive Intraday Models: For today, our aggressive intraday models indicate going long on a break above 4155, 4142, or 4125 with an 8-point trailing stop, and going short on a break below 4152, 4137, or 4124 with an 8-point trailing stop.
Models also indicate a break-even hard stop once a trade gets into a 4-point profit level. Models indicate taking these signals from 11:01 am EST or later.
By definition the intraday models do not hold any positions overnight – the models exit any open position at the open of the last bar (3:59pm bar or 4:00pm bar, depending on your platform’s bar timing convention).
To avoid getting whipsawed, use at least a 1-minute closing or a higher time frame – depending on your risk tolerance and trading style – to determine the signals.
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