S&P 500 OUTLOOK for THU 12/20

Not Much to Boost the Markets In the Near Term – Any “Oversold” Bounce May be Short-lived Models continue to caution that any moves up could be potential bull traps – they indicate selling on any up-moves while the index is below 2535. The next key support lies around 2475.   Model Biases/Outlook: As we reiterated (more…)

S&P 500 OUTLOOK for WED 12/19

Today, It’s All About the Fed and the Interest Rates Outlook! Our models continue to book winning trades in these treacherous markets! Models continue to caution that any moves up could be potential bull traps – they indicate selling on any up-moves while the index is below 2610.  Model Biases/Outlook: As we reiterated since the midterm (more…)

S&P 500 OUTLOOK for TUE 12/18

Treacherous Markets – Models Indicate Using Any Up-swings to Sell Our models continue to book winning trades in these treacherous markets! Models continue to caution that any moves up could be potential bull traps – they indicate selling on any up-moves while the index is below 2610.  Model Biases/Outlook: As we reiterated since the midterm elections, (more…)

S&P 500 OUTLOOK for MON 12/17

Bears Settling In – Do Not Get into Bull Traps Ahead The key range our models have been pointing to as holding the market since last Monday 12/10, has been breached to the downside on Friday 12/14 with the S&P 500 Index closing below the 2618 level (closed at 2599.95). Our medium term models have (more…)

S&P 500 OUTLOOK for FRI 12/14

It’s About China’s Economy, if Not Trade War There are a lot of narratives that can fit what is happening to/in the financial markets, and today it’s about China’s slowing economy. With or without all these narratives and headlines, we called – days before here – for a “breather” from the bear attacks AND a (more…)

S&P 500 OUTLOOK for THU 12/13

Upper End of the Range in Play?  The “breather” from any trend is typically characterized by choppy range trading for a while until the markets suddenly break out decisively and deeply in the direction of the trend or as a mark of ending the trend. Our models correctly called the “breather from the bear attack” on (more…)

S&P 500 OUTLOOK for WED 12/12

Choppy Trading Until Break Out of The Range  The “breather” from any trend is typically characterized by choppy range trading for a while until the markets suddenly break out decisively and deeply in the direction of the trend or as a mark of ending the trend. Our models correctly called the “breather from the bear attack” (more…)

S&P 500 OUTLOOK for TUE 12/11

A Sleeping Bear is No Bull! Our models correctly called the “breather from the bear attack” yesterday, which came true for yesterday’s second half of the session and which may extend into the next session or two. Nevertheless, as we said in yesterday’s forecast, do NOT take this as any “bullish” signs in the market! As (more…)

S&P 500 OUTLOOK for MON 12/10

A Breather from Last Week’s Bear Attack? Our models point to potential breather today from the beating the markets took so far in December. However, models indicate caution against establishing any new, medium-term long positions as the bias is firmly bearish. Any spikes up could be followed by swift moves down, trapping any bulls that (more…)

S&P 500 OUTLOOK for MON 12/03

US-China Meeting Weekend Preliminary Results Driving Wild Moves – Let the Noise Settle!  As written in our Friday’s forecast, the US-China meeting has proved to be a big market mover over the weekend. All the markets (Stocks, Oil, Gold, Commodities, Currencies) have gapped significantly. Our models continue to sport the “indeterminate” bias and point to (more…)