Strong Jobs Numbers or Trade War Tariffs? In a normal world, the strong jobs numbers would actually make any rate cut expectations ludicrous; but, as we all know, there is nothing normal about our world as far as “political leadership” is concerned. Hence, there can be another factor – aka “the (self inflicted) Trade War (more…)
Fed Chair or the Politicians – Whose Wishes and Actions on Monetary Policy are Driven by Public Interest? With the increasing politicization of the monetary policy, investors are now burdened with another monstrous task – besides investment analyses – which is to read between the lines of the powerful people’s statements and actions about the (more…)
Results of Published Model Trades for WED 07/31 Find below the detailed outcome tracking of our models’ trading plans for the day, as well as the results for the last month. (please click here to view the Outlook and Trading Plans published in the morning, that these results refer to) THE GIST: Medium-Frequency Models: (more…)
It’s All About the Monetary Policy Today! The S&P 500 futures are up with the release of Powell’s prepared testimony, and seem to be celebrating a potential confirmation that the fed would be cutting the rates in its July meeting – which was being already factored in with a 100% probability in the derivatives markets! (more…)
Despite Powell, No Major Theme Moving the Markets The absence of the constant barrage of hype and market propping antics by various parties with vested interests – both at the geopolitical level and on the domestic monetary policy level – seems to prevail into today’s session, despite Powell’s scheduled testimony today. Call it hype-fatigue? Market (more…)
Results of Published Model Entries and Exits for Friday 01/25 Per the plans published in the morning on Friday 01/25, our medium-term models as well as our aggressive intraday models did not trigger any trades as the index opened above the entry level and never traded below it to trigger any trades on the cross (more…)
Results of Published Model Entries and Exits for Thursday 01/24 Per the plans published in the morning today, our medium-term models did not trigger any trades today whereas our aggressive intraday models’ trades lost 8.01 index points on one short trade. Below, you will find the detailed tracking of our models’ trading plans for the (more…)
Results of Published Model Entries and Exits for Wednesday 01/23 Per the plans published in the morning today, our medium-term models’ trades yielded 0.14 index points in gains whereas our aggressive intraday models’ trades gained 6.14 index points on one short trade. Below, you will find the detailed tracking of our models’ trading plans for (more…)
Results of Published Model Entries and Exits for Tuesday 01/22 Per the plans published in the morning on Tuesday, our medium-term models’ trades yielded 0.73 index points in gains whereas our aggressive intraday models’ trades gained 20.73 index points on one short trade each. Below, you will find the detailed tracking of our models’ trading (more…)
Results of Published Model Entries and Exits for Friday 01/18 Per the plans published in the morning, our medium-term models’ plans stayed out of the market on Friday. Our aggressive intraday models’ plans yielded a gain of 15.47 index points on one long trade. Below, you will find the detailed tracking of our models’ trading (more…)
