First Trading Day of the Month With the first-of-month flows likely supporting the index today (our regular readers recognize this bias in our trading plans), there may not be any meaningful pullback today even if there is some negative headlines, until the payroll data are released this Friday morning. Until there is a clear confirmation (more…)
Market Bull Ensconced in Its Territory With the first-of-month flows likely supporting the index tomorrow, there may not be any meaningful pullback – if at all it is in the offing – until the payroll data are relased this Friday morning. Until there is a clear confirmation of a directional change, our positional models continue to (more…)
The Precarious Climb to New Highs Continues While the end of the Market Goldilocks is likely coming in with the Fed’s tapering by the end of the year, markets seem giddy with the precarious ascents to new highs, for now. As we reiterated multiple times in our trading plans, whatever may be the rationale for (more…)
Market Goldilocks Scenario Coming to an End Fed Chair Powell’s statement this morning on tapering saw an immediate spike up in the indexes that is entering into a consolidation mode as of 10:40am EST. However you parse it, the statement clearly indicates that the taper is coming in, and coming in by the end of (more…)
Don’t Get Chopped Into Shorts Market movements need not make sense to anyone nor do they seldom follow or respect any valuation theories – at least in the short run. Unless you have deep pockets to withstand large drawdowns, or an aggressive intraday trader with abilities to act swiftly, going short this market could prove (more…)
Market Bull Standing His Ground! Last few sessions of weakness repeatedly tested our models’ published key levels of 4430 and 4385, but the daily close was not breached beyond the flat level, leaving our models in the flat mode since last Wednesday’s close. This morning’s action puts our models back into the bullish bias IF (more…)
Beginning of the End of the Bullish Regime? Our morning trading plans yesterday stated: “While the market-pundits parse every word from the Fed meeting minutes today and some go onto an analysis-paralysis, our readers can choose to take advantage of the simplicity and the efficacy of our actionable trading plans to determine their investment/trading actions (more…)
Fed Minutes Under the Microscope Today While the market-pundits parse every word from the Fed meeting minutes today and some go onto an analysis-paralysis, our readers can choose to take advantage of the simplicity and the efficacy of our actionable trading plans to determine their investment/trading actions based off of those minutes and the market (more…)
If Itching to Short this Market, Focus on Not Getting Chopped As we stated in our yesterday’s morning traing plans, our models see no sights of any weakness in the index until there is a daily close below 4430. If you are itching to short this market based on news headlines, you should have deep (more…)
The Market Bull Standing its Ground The market’s pullback this morning lacked any depth and appears to be just a routine business-as-usual. Our models see no sights of any weakness in the index until there is a daily close below 4430. For positional trading: Our positional trading models have flipped to a bullish bias on (more…)
