S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for THU 01/20

An Interim Bottom in Tech Stocks? Our models are pointing to the possibility that yesterday pre-markets’ rebound attempt could be gaining some momentum today. The worse-than-expected jobless claims could lend some support here as well (“the Fed can’t be too aggressive if we are losing more jobs” could be the thought process here). Shorts might (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for WED 01/19

Key Support Levels Being Tested The early stages of the market rout that began this week has brought the index to test key support levels overnight in the futures markets and are attempting to rebound from there. Whether this rebound attempt prevails in the regular market hours remains to be seen. As we wrote in (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for TUE 01/18

The Emboldened Bear Is Out in the Open In our trading plan – published on Wed, 01/12 – we wrote: “Notwithstanding the ensuing rally, that caution (“no bottom-fishing yet”) is still warranted. A forty-year record high inflation is no news to cheer even if it is in-line with expectations. Investors relatively new to the markets (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for FRI 01/14

The Big Bears Slowly Getting Emboldened In our last trading plan – published on Wed, 01/12 – we wrote: “Notwithstanding the ensuing rally, that caution (“no bottom-fishing yet”) is still warranted. A forty-year record high inflation is no news to cheer even if it is in-line with expectations. Investors relatively new to the markets need (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for WED 01/12

Relief (“The Sky’s Not Falling”) Rally or Bull Trap? In our last trading plan – published on Fri, 01/07 – we wrote: “Bottom-fishers looking for stock market bargains need to be cautious about a potential bull-trap today. Bad news is NOT always good news – not in this market”. Notwithstanding the ensuing rally, that caution (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for FRI 01/07

NFP Disappointment to Embolden Bottom-fishers? Bottom-fishers looking for stock market bargains need to be cautious about a potential bull-trap today. Bad news is NOT always good news – not in this market. Our early 2022 trading plan – published on Tue, 01/04 – stated: “The artificial, illiquid moves could now be coming to an end (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for THU 01/06

The Unstoppable Bull is Exhausted Our first 2022 trading plan – published on Tue, 01/04 – stated: “The artificial, illiquid moves could now be coming to an end and the true mood of the investors is likely to set onto the markets soon”. This followed our last trading plan of 2021 – published on Thu, (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for TUE, 01/04

Scaling New Highs Coming to a Pause Soon? In our last daily trading plans published on 12/23, we wrote: “While investors could be well advised to trim their holdings on rallies induced by these effects, bearish traders might need to wait these tides out to strike. A break of the all-time high appears likely within (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for THU 12/23

Santa Rally, Year-end Rally, January Effect… Despite the sense of the logic of not holding risky assets with high valuations going into the imminent Fed hikes, it is NOT enough rationale to go shorting this market. Bears have many head winds for the next few weeks – the Santa Rally, then the year-end rally, then (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for TUE 12/21

Recovery Attempts to Hold? Notwithstanding any artificial “Santa-rally or Year-end rally” in the offing, we re-iterate – for the next few weeks – what we wrote in our trading plans for Friday, 12/17: “The Fed-induced bubbles in the asset markets are showing signs of deflating swiftly (if not bursting, yet). There are very little – (more…)