Trading Plans for TUE. 7/23/24 – Election Year Gyrations In Play (Day 2)

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for MON. 7/22/24 As of Friday, 7/19/24, morning, we have negated our bullish bias, and adapted a bearish bias with the index closing at 5544.59 – just less than half a point below our critical level that we have been publishing for the last few weeks – in the (more…)

Trading Plans for FRI. 7/19/24 – Back to Basics? (Day 3)

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for FRI. 7/19/24 As of yesterday, Thursday, 7/18/24, our positional models’ guidance (as published) has been: “Since flipping to a bullish bias on the break of 5116, our models continue to be bullish. Models would carry this bullish bias while the index is above 5560 on a daily close (more…)

Trading Plans for THU. 7/18/24 – Back to Basics? (Day 2)

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for THU. 7/18/24 We reiterate what we published in our trading plans on Wednesday, 7/17: “Trump’s rhetoric on Taiwan apparently is jolting the markets out of the Trump Presidency 2.0 euphoria, bringing them into the realities of potential geopolitical reckoning and chaos a second Trump term can bring in. (more…)

Trading Plans for WED. 7/17/24 – Back to Basics?

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for WED. 7/17/24 Trump’s rhetoric on Taiwan apparently is jolting the markets out of the Trump Presidency 2.0 euphoria, bringing them into the realities of potential geopolitical reckoning and chaos a second Trump term can bring in. With this (sudden?) realization, investors seem to be going back to basics (more…)

Trading Plans for TUE. 7/16/24 – Markets Focused on Earnings (Day 3)

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for TUE. 7/16/24 With the sad and somber developments over the weekend in the nation’s politics, the financial markets appear, as of this morning, more resilient and focused on the earnings and the upcoming rate cuts, while also factoring in the increased odds of Trump Presidency 2.0. Last week’s (more…)

Trading Plans for MON. 7/15/24 – Markets Focused on Earnings (Day 2)

S&P 500 INDEX MODEL TRADING PLANS for MON. 7/15/24 With the sad and somber developments over the weekend in the nation’s politics, the financial markets appear, as of this morning, more resilient and focused on the earnings and the upcoming rate cuts, while also factoring in the increased odds of Trump Presidency 2.0. Last week’s (more…)

S&P 500 INDEX TESTING TRUMP’s INAUGURAL DAY’s LEVELS

S&P 500 Futures are down 5% and hit “limit down” within the first hour after opening! Tomorrow, it is likely we are going to open below the Trump Inaugural day’s level of 01/20/2017 (2271.31 on S&P 500 and 25516.83 on the Dow). Three years’ worth of market gains disappearing fast! With Institutional Quality Quantitative Research (more…)

S&P 500 OUTLOOK for TUE 07/30

Despite Market Rattling Headlines (China, Trump) Investors In a Waiting Mode With the apparently market rattling headlines coming out involving China and Trump’s trigger happy tweets, investors seem to be in a waiting mode. Our models continue the same trading plans from yesterday for today as well. Read below for our models’ trading plans for (more…)