Markets’ Climb Inexplicable? The raging pandemic is supposed to wreak havoc on the economy and jobs! The rising of Joe Biden in the polls and potential democratic control of the senate is supposed to be bad for the stock market! The supposed “Trump effect” on the stock market is supposed to vanish as Trump’s poll...
Markets Still Searching for a Direction For the last three weeks, our models have been indicating a trend-less, choppy trading range of 3235-3150 – on a daily close basis. It continues to be the theme and the key trading levels for today as well. Read below to check out our models’ trading plans for today....
Directionality Yet to Develop The earnings of Bank of America and Morgan Stanley laid bare the two sides of the financial firms’ earnings – one driven by main street economy and the other driven by by the artificial bubble created by the Fed’s unprecedented moves. We wrote yesterday: “models are looking for a close above...
Bouncing On the Balloon…Fun Until it Pops The index cleared the 3150 level handily yesterday, but our models are not sporting any bullish signs, yet. The financial firms’ earnings driven by trading revenues derived mostly by the Fed’s unprecedented moves may not reflect the real economy’s states or prospects. Nevertheless, as the old saying goes,...
All Noise And No Signal We opened this Monday at 3155.29 and we closed yesterday (Thu) at 3152.10 – after so much of seemingly big headlines involving Covid-19 surge and jobs numbers and everything in between! If you, as a trader, have been feeling frustrated and/or chopped up, that is the empirical explanation. Last week,...
The Bull-Bear Tug-of-War Continues… Last week, our theme had been: “Anyone who is betting on the short side of the markets need to have deep pockets to sustain deep draw downs before they get their chance”. And, as we wrote on Thursday, “Markets have approached the high end of the 2940-3140 our models have been...