Trading Plans for MON. 10/14/24

Trading Plans for MON. 10/14/24 – Q3 Earnings Season Kicks Off (Day 2) Last week’s CPI and PPI seem to give investors the visions of the macro economic Goldilocks scenario to continue. Whether Q3 earnings that earnestly kicked off on Fri. 10/11 are going to bolster this view would depend on what the earnings numbers (more…)

Trading Plans for FRI. 10/11/24

Trading Plans for FRI. 10/11/24 – Q3 Earnings Season Kicks Off This week’s CPI and PPI seem to give investors the visions of the macro economic Goldilocks scenario to continue. Whether Q3 earnings set to start coming out from today are going to bolster this view would depend on what the numbers AND the outlook (more…)

Trading Plans for THU. 10/10/24

Trading Plans for THU. 10/10/24 – Hotter than CPI but Cooler Reaction to it So Far This morning’s hotter-than-expected CPI could potentially raise concerns about the pace of the Fed rate cuts going forward. This has the potential to give some pause to the bulls, but the market action so far does not seem to (more…)

Can Walls Street Celebrate Main St Good News?

Trading Plans for WED. 10/09/24 – Can Wall St Celebrate Main St Good News? Last week’s NFP numbers reinforced the much better ADP Private Payrolls data which thus far seemed to spur market “disappointment” that the economy may not be as bad as was “hoped for”(?) to warrant the Fed to continue to cut rates (more…)

Trading Plans for MON. 10/07/24 – Can Wall St Celebrate Main St Good News?

Last week’s NFP numbers reinforced the much better ADP Private Payrolls data which thus far seemed to spur market “disappointment” that the economy may not be as bad as was “hoped for”(?) to warrant the Fed to continue to cut rates aggressively. It would be interesting to see if the opposite reaction to the much (more…)

Trading Plans for FRI. 10/04/24

Trading Plans for FRI. 10/04/24 – Can Wall St Celebrate Main St Good News? This morning’s NFP numbers reinforce this week’s much better ADP Private Payrolls data which thus far seemed to spur market “disappointment” that the economy may not be as bad as was “hoped for”(?) to warrant the Fed to continue to cut (more…)

Trading Plans for WED. 10/02/24

Trading Plans for WED. 10/02/24 – Main St Good News Wall St Bad News? This morning’s much better ADP Private Payrolls data seem to spur market “disappointment” that the economy may not be as bad as was “hoped for”(?) to warrant the Fed to continue to cut rates aggressively. Geopolitical tensions and Germany’s recent inflation (more…)

Trading Plans for MON. 9/30/24

Trading Plans for MON. 9/30/24 – Quarter-end Window Dressing to Mask Global Economic Slowdown Concerns? The new-era of rate cut regime has not (yet) proved to put any new fire under the already steaming hot markets since the post-FOMC (despite testing new record highs). Germany’s inflation numbers could add fresh concerns to the concerns about (more…)

Trading Plans for THU. 9/26/24

Trading Plans for THU. 9/26/24 – New Interest Rate Regime Begins…(Day 7) Last week’s FOMC rate decisions is going to mark a historic end to the most aggressive interest rate hiking regime in over two decades, and begins a new era of rate cuts for the Fed. The pace and the magnitudes are what the (more…)

Trading Plans for WED. 9/25/24

Trading Plans for WED. 9/25/24 – New Interest Rate Regime Begins…(Day 6) Last week’s FOMC rate decisions is going to mark a historic end to the most aggressive interest rate hiking regime in over two decades, and begins a new era of rate cuts for the Fed. The pace and the magnitudes are what the (more…)