S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for THU 04/16

The Ubiquitous Fibonacci Still In Play With more financial institutions’ earnings pointing to a potential wave of defaults and loan losses, and with the initial jobless claims surging by the week, there is an intensifying battle between the “the worse is over” and “the worst is yet to come” camps. It would be fascinating to (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for WED 04/15

Yo-Yo or Yo-Bear? With Goldman and other big institutions adding to JP Morgan’s kicking off of the earnings season, expect market gyrations to continue to become more pronounced in both directions – with knee jerk reactions as well as strategic long term rotations. The 50% retracement from last month’s crash is again under test at (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for TUE 04/14

Earnings to Energize or Sober Down the Markets? With JP Morgan kicking off the earnings season in earnest, expect market gyrations to become more pronounced in both directions – with knee jerk reactions as well as strategic long term rotations. The 50% retracement from last month’s crash is under test at 2796. A daily close (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for MON 04/13

New Highs or Consolidation Ahead? The 50% retracement from last month’s crash is under test at 2796. A daily close above 2800 is needed to confirm the potential for further highs, while a failure to take it out means that the next leg would be to the down side. Only time can tell which side (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for THU 04/09

Bulls Gunning for the Next Top? In yesterday’s trading plans wrote: “we need a daily close above 2750 to negate this”. The market easily negated that top and the opening action on the index indicates that bulls might be gunning for the next top – the 50% retracement level around 2793. A daily close above (more…)

S&P 500 TRADING PLANS for WED 04/08

Interim Top in Place! Our models are indicating that an interim top might be in place yesterday, and we need a daily close above 2750 to negate this. A daily close below 2630 confirms the top and might resume some selling pressure. Models caution against leaving any longs open overnight while below 2750. Between 2630 (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for TUE 04/07

Key Fibonacci Retracement Target Reached For the last two weeks, every morning we wrote (you can go access any day’s trading plan to see it for yourself) that our models have been looking for a daily close above 2620 to adopt a slightly bullish bias, which we got yesterday. Sure enough, overnight futures have already (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for MON 04/06

Roller Coasters Can be Fun…Until Your Stomach Starts Churning Overnight futures are up more than 3% on apparent optimism about early signs of flattening of the “corona-curve”. FOMO seems to be driving the markets’ upside, and fear, pain (of not being able to take the losses in the choppy moves), and structural issues (margin calls, (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for FRI 04/03

Job Losses And Oil Price Rises? With just the beginning of the job losses, some are wondering if this is the right time to prop up oil prices. With the coronavirus impacts far from known, it could be premature to talk about helping raise oil prices by the US government even if it might appear (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for THU 04/02

Job Losses Not Expected? Overreaction? Overnight futures were up and then the gains evaporated after the 8:30am (ET) release of the initial jobless claims. While huge job losses were expected, looks like the markets are reacting to the much higher than expected/feared magnitude of the job losses and their stoking of the fears of recession (more…)