Consolidation or Break-down? Our trading plans last Friday stated: “For positional trading: While above 3780, our models continue to sport a bullish bias albeit with some cautionary stance as there could be some consolidation ahead. No bearish bias while above 3764”. The index is probing the 3780s as of this morning’s opening. It remains to...
This Red-hot Bull Missing Something? Our trading plans yesterday stated: “With the elections drama coming to a climax (or, anti-climax, depending on your perspective), markets could be slowly coming back to focusing on the basics: economy, the virus and its impact on the economy, interest rates, inflation, dollar weakness, jobs, unemployment, and so on. Of...
Back to Basics? With the elections drama coming to a climax (or, anti-climax, depending on your perspective), markets could be slowly coming back to focusing on the basics: economy, the virus and its impact on the economy, interest rates, inflation, dollar weakness, jobs, unemployment, and so on. Of course, it won’t be an overnight shift,...
Congressional Certification Day – Expect Whipsaws The Georgia runoff election results and the congressional certification related headlines likely to whipsaw the markets today, before the markets gain any near term directional bias. Our first trading plan of 2021 – published Mon 01/04 – stated: “The upper end of our models’ key range for most of...
“Georgia On My Mind” is Today’s Theme Song for the Markets Today, markets are going to be fixated on every headline involving the Georgia runoff elections. And, likely to find the direction of the next leg in these elections’ decisive outcomes – if and when they become officially certified (yep, we all seem to be...
Ready to Explode – Higher or Lower? With the hype of the stimulus money, and the fear of a worsening Covid-19 outbreak both confirmed last couple of weeks, and with potential unwinding of the enormous gains made by the institutional funds this week, markets are likely to be in a consolidation mode this week before...
Goldilocks Finale – Last Day! Markets are closing the bizarre year of 2020 at head-scratching (at least, for many) record levels despite the historic pandemic and 19+ million people on unemployment. Unprecedented levels of fed money sloshing around the economy seems to be pushing all the asset prices up. Will this trickle down to the (more…)
Goldilocks Finale – Day 3 With the hype of the stimulus money, and the fear of a worsening Covid-19 outbreak both confirmed last couple of weeks – and, with knee-jerk reactions to both in the last few days – markets are searching for the next impetus, with a bias to the upside. The upper end...
Goldilocks Finale – Day 2 With the hype of the stimulus money, and the fear of a worsening Covid-19 outbreak both confirmed last couple of weeks – and, with knee-jerk reactions to both in the last few days – markets are searching for the next impetus, with a bias to the upside. The upper end...
Goldilocks this Week? With the hype of the stimulus money, and the fear of a worsening Covid-19 outbreak both confirmed – and, with knee-jerk reactions to both in the last few days – markets are searching for a direction and are in a whip-saw mode. Our models’ key range’s upper end for this whole month,...
