S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for MON 08/24

Last Hurrah or the Start of the Next Leg Up? For the last two weeks, the main theme of our daily morning trading plans has been: “our models do NOT point to any bearish bias, yet. Possible consolidation ahead while the index is between 3390 and 3340”. The theme remains intact for today, and possibly (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for FRI 08/21

Up or Down – the Road Ahead is Not Straight In our model trading plans on Wednesday morning, we wrote: “After successfully calling the break to a record new high, our models point to a possible exhaustion in the leg-up before any meaningful continuation to manifest”. That “possible exhaustion” seems to be setting into the (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for THU 08/20

Early Signs of Record Run Fatigue… In our model trading plans yesterday morning, we wrote: “After successfully calling the break to a record new high, our models point to a possible exhaustion in the leg-up before any meaningful continuation to manifest”. That “possible exhaustion” our models were pointing to materialized overnight (purportedly starting with the (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for WED 08/19

Record High Exhaustion or Next Leg-up Exhilaration or… After successfully calling the break to a record new high, our models point to a possible exhaustion in the leg-up before any meaningful continuation to manifest. However, bears should not jump in to take any directional short positions yet, as the market internals point to bullish bias (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for TUE 08/18

S&P 500 Index Made a Record High This Morning! What Now? Sixth time IS a Charm, after all! We wrote in our yesterday’s trading plans: “After failing four days in a row to breach the pre-pandemic record high, the index appears all set to test the record high and succeed this week, if not today”. (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for MON 08/17

Institutional Investors Following Individual Investors?! With this morning’s new target from Goldman Sachs for 2020 year end S&P 500 Index – and, with JPMorgan joining them in the bullish outlook – the institutions appear poised to making the grounds ready for the next rally. Interestingly, this follows American Association of Individual Investors’ sentiment index recorded (more…)