S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for MON 11/29

Friday’s Steep Drop Not Scaring the Markets, for Now Our last trading plan published Tuesday morning stated: “This morning’s price action so far indicates to renewed uncertainty and unease in the markets with the various issues investors are trying to grapple with: Rising inflation, rising yields, Powell’s apparently diminishing credibility, and the Covid situation in (more…)

Happy Thanksgiving! No Trading Plans Today, Wed 11/24

Happy Thanksgiving! No Trading Plans Today We do not have to trade every single day! Happy Thanksgiving to you and all your loved ones! We will be back with our morning trading plans on Monday, 11/29. (Our positional trading models will continue to carry the open short into the holiday shortened weekend)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for TUE 11/23

  Rising Yields, Inflation, Covid-in-Europe, and Powell After the initial pop following Powell’s re-appoiontment, markets started unwinding the recent gains in a listless fashion. This morning’s price action so far indicates to renewed uncertainty and unease in the markets with the various issues investors are trying to grapple with: Rising inflation, rising yields, Powell’s apparently (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for MON 11/22

Biden Shows Confidence In Powell – Will Markets Show the Same? Biden showed confidence in Powell’s leadership at the Fed by reappointing him as the chair. It remains to be seen whether the markets show the same confidence or judge it as a bad decision. Whether the markets like the reappointment or hate it, it (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for FRI 11/19

Markets to Obsess over Fed Chair and European Covid Situation? The (new?) Fed Chair nomination over this weekend and the worsening Covid situation in Europe seems to be the current sources of market tension that is likely to unwind in a violent way in the next few days. Expect the 4715 level – on a (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for THU 11/18

The Coiled Markets to Unwind Soon? Markets appear to be building up a lot of pentup tension that is likely to unwind in a violent way in the next few days. The upcoming Fed chair (re?)appointment could pave way to this. Expect the 4715 level on the S&P 500 to be the critical level to (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for WED 11/17

Open Short Survived by 0.05 points! The short that was opened last Wednesday, 11/10, had a stop loss at 4715 and the S&P 500 index reached a session high of 4714.95 and left the short alive! Looks like our models nailed it by identifying this level days in advance…may be by fluke or may be (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for TUE 11/16

Searching for a Direction As we wrote in our Friday’s morning trading plans, “With the upside momentum appearing to start fading, and with inflation concerns not appearing to dent investors and corporates outlook, the markets could be meandering in a directionless manner for the near term”. This morning’s price action so far conforms to this (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for MON, 11/15

Meandering Markets As we wrote in our Friday’s morning trading plans, “With the upside momentum appearing to start fading, and with inflation concerns not appearing to dent investors and corporates outlook, the markets could be meandering in a directionless manner for the near term”. This morning’s price action so far conforms to that “Meandering Markets” (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for FRI 11/12

No Directional Drivers With the upside momentum appearing to start fading, and with inflation concerns not appearing to dent investors and corporates outlook, the markets could be meandering in a directionless manner for the near term. Positional Trading Models: Our Positional Trading Models went short on Wednesday, 11/10, on a break below 4672 (entry at (more…)