Trading Plans for FRI. 9/20/24 – New Interest Rate Regime Begins…(Day 3)
This week’s FOMC rate decisions is going to mark a historic end to the most aggressive interest rate hiking regime in over two decades, and begins a new era of rate cuts for the Fed. The pace and the magnitudes are what the pundits and the markets are going to speculate about – not the direction, which is very clear.
As we stated in our previous trading plans: “Last week’s CPI and PPI data seem to be adding to the non-farm payrolls data from last Friday in ramping up further the hopes of a Goldilocks scenario to continue on and of a successful soft landing from the Fed”. Unless otherwise some new data surprises are dealt, we carry this view for the near term.
As of Wed, 9/11/24, after closing out a short position with 70 points gain, our positional models went flat. Yesterday’s published Positional models indicated taking the following position at the close (on the last tick): “long position if the index is above 5650, short position if the index is below 5640, and flat if the index is between 5640 and 5650”. With the index closing at 5618.26, our positional models are deemed to have flipped to a short at that price. Models indicate staying in the short unless daily close above 5775.
Aggressive, Intraday Trading Plans:
For today, our aggressive intraday models are in an indeterminate state – no trading plans for today.
By definition the intraday models do not hold any positions overnight – the models exit any open position at the close of the last bar (3:59pm bar or 4:00pm bar, depending on your platform’s bar timing convention), unless otherwise specified.
To avoid getting whipsawed, use at least a 5-minute closing or a higher time frame (a 1-minute if you know what you are doing) – depending on your risk tolerance and trading style – to determine the signals.
NOTES – HOW TO INTERPRET/USE THESE TRADING PLANS:
(i) The trading levels identified are derived from our A.I. Powered Quant Models. Depending on the market conditions, these may or may not correspond to any specific indicator(s).
(ii) These trading plans may be used to trade in any instrument that tracks the S&P 500 Index (e.g., ETFs such as SPY, derivatives such as futures and options on futures, and SPX options), triggered by the price levels in the Index. The results of these indicated trades would vary widely depending on the timeframe you use (tick chart, 1 minute, or 5 minute, or 15 minute or 60 minute etc.), the quality of your broker’s execution, any slippages, your trading commissions and many other factors.
(iii) For the execution of our models trading plans, a “break above/below” is deemed to have occurred when the index closes above/below (if you are trading by bar close) a specified trading level.
(iv) For the trades to trigger, the breaks should occur during the regular session hours starting at 9:30am ET. By design, they carry only one open position at any given time.
(v) These are NOT trading recommendations for any individual(s) and may or may not be suitable to your own financial objectives and risk tolerance – USE these ONLY as educational tools to inform and educate your own trading decisions, at your own risk.