Trading Plans for FRI. 08/11: PPI versus CPI – Which One to Go By?!

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for FRI. 08/11 Our trading plans published yesterday stated: “Our models continue to indicate choppy markets until this resolves in either direction, notwithstanding this morning’s push up following the rising-not-so-fast inflation numbers”. Today’s PPI numbers have validated why we didn’t give too much weight to yesterday morning’s CPI numbers (more…)

Trading Plans for FRI. 07/14: Earnings Kickoff In Earnest

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for FRI. 07/14 The big banks have kickstarted the earnings season with JP Morgan and Wells Fargo numbers coming in strong. Next week will give more insights into how earnings are shaping up in the wake of the sticky inflation. With a quarter-point rate increase almost a given, the (more…)

Trading Plans for THU. 07/13: PPI Good News on Inflation Front, but Bad News on Recession Front?

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for THU. 07/13 The softer than expected PPI on the top of yesterday’s softer inflation numbers are likely going to stoke the “Half Full, Half Empty” debate to a higher pitch. The die-hard bulls would like to see it as an indication of the coveted “soft landing”, while the (more…)

Markets Continue Searching for a Direction

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for TUE. 05/16 Other than the occasionally simmering regional banks concerns and the knee-jerk reactions around the debt ceiling talks, there does not appear to be much for the markets to go by these days. The depressed VIX could be pointing to potential complacency in the markets that could (more…)

Markets Indecisive on the Next Leg, for Now

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for FRI. 05/12 Other than the simmering regional bank crisis concerns whipsawing between the sentiments of relief and concern, there does not appear to be much for the markets to go by these days. The depressed VIX could be pointing to potential complacency in the markets that could unravel (more…)

Post-CPI Bullish Spike Needs Confirmation from PPI Tomorrow

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for WED. 05/10 As we wrote in our published Trading Plans yesterday, “The CPI and the PPI releases this week are likely going to make investors contemplating over the basics of the markets – economy, inflation, interest rates, and, maybe, freshly obsess over potential recession.”. The post-CPI market action (more…)

S&P 500 MODEL TRADING PLANS for WED 04/13

Earnings Season to Exhilarate or Exasperate? Within a week after publishing our trading plans on Fri, 04/08, S&P 500 has breached the indicated support levels of 4500 and 4460, and has confirmed our directional bias to the downward. The earnings season kicking off today may be the last hope the markets have to stop the (more…)