Yield Curve and Options Expiration – to Exasperate Frustrated Investors/Traders Traditional investors and traders in this market would be frustrated with continued influence of exogenous factors seemingly driving the financial markets wild. Yes, the Finance 101 course you took or even the Efficient Markets Hypothesis your professor (and, most everyone in the Investment Advisory (more…)
Results of Published Model Trades for WED 08/14 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) (please click here to (more…)
Yield Curve – Economy at the Crossroads The inversion of the yield curve (2-year treasuries yielding more than the 10-year treasuries) is flashing a sign of potential recession. Whether it is a self fulfilling prophecy or an impending economic indicator, the financial markets are going to go through a lot of volatility based on (more…)
When Everyone and Their Grandmother “Knows” What the Fed and the Market are Going to Do… When everything looks and feels so obvious and everyone knows what the market is going to do (“Fed indicates they are going to lower the interest rates soon, and the market rockets upwards”, of course), it might be (more…)
Choppiness Driven by Geopolitical Headlines The overnight futures have seen choppy trading driven by the headlines about the oil tanker fires in the Strait of Hormuz – sentiment oscillating between knee-jerk sell-off and knee-jerk bid-up. In which direction the sentiment stabilizes for the session is anybody’s guess, and potentially determined by the technicals of (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…)
