Tight Spiky Range Turned Spooky? Overnight futures have continued accumulating gains on top of yesterday’s spike up on Trump’s pumping up of the “Phase-1” (aka, diluted) China trade deal that was light on detail. If you went short on that lack of detail and against what our models have been consistently indicating, you may be (more…)

Tight Range, Spiky Today’s weekly jobless claims number may raise some concerned eyebrows but we doubt if it would cause the markets to break out of the tight range they have been stuck in for this week. Until something significant moves the markets out of the range, no directional moves are likely. Care should be (more…)

Today’s FOMC Rate Decision Today’s rate decision announcement from the Fed is going to be just a yawn – nobody is anticipating any fireworks from it. It’s the Goldilocks scenario – except for the overnight lending markets and their cash crunch. Unless there are any major unexpected revelations, expect today’s market to repeat yesterday’s choppy, (more…)

Choppy, Range-bound With the impeachment drama on the hill, Fed on the offing, and the China trade war deadline looming…there is a lot of headline risks ahead for the markets. Given that none of these could be actually leading to any clear outcomes, expect choppy trading ahead within the broad range our models have been (more…)

Trump the Wild Card This Week? Last Friday morning we wrote: “Last two days of price action has confirmed the lifting-off of the pressure on bulls, albeit not confirming any strength for them”. While the Non-Farm Payrolls catapulted the markets to new highs, our models continue to be in an indeterminate state where neither the (more…)

Back to Focus On the Economy, Even if For a Day? Last two days of price action has confirmed the lifting-off of the pressure on bulls, albeit not confirming any strength for them. The bears are back under pressure, for now – barring any concerns from the Non-Farm Payrolls to be released at 8:30am EST (more…)

Bulls Not to Celebrate, Yet! While yesterday’s daily close of 3112.76 was above our models’ reference level of 3110, the price action was not strong enough and the models have rejected it as any indication of the bulls’ strength. This leaves our models in an indeterminate mode where neither the bulls nor the bears have (more…)

Shorts Not to Jump the Gun! The potential manipulation and/or market timing of the rhetoric on China trade war by people with “connections” aside, the market reaction yesterday did NOT confirm the bearish levels our models were looking for. While the session low of 3069.5 came within 1.5 points away from our 3068 level, it (more…)

“I Prefer to Wait…But They Want to Make a Deal Now” Investors seem to be getting sick and tired of the blatant lies right to the face of the whole nation that our leader is trying to perpetrate on us and the early morning futures action shows it! It is alright if we can not (more…)

December to Repeat the Record-setting November Markets? This run-away bull market may not stop or even slowdown as long as everyone and their grandma is predicting it. Individual investors’ sentiment is less bullish and more bearish than historic average, and it should be a cause for concern for bears, as the markets typically tend to (more…)