It was an uneventful day at 11 Wall St on Thursday. While stocks did end the day a bit higher, they are still down on the week, all as investors/traders/algos parse the headlines looking for some bit of info that may be the clue to what’s next. By the end of the day, the Dow [...]

WSJ Thursday Dec 5: “US Stocks Rise as Investors Peg Hopes on Trade Deal” (Is anyone else exhausted?) The article goes on to say that “US stocks advanced Wednesday on fresh optimism over US and China trade talks.”   The latest rally is being driven by comments out of China (of all places). They said [...]

Investors/traders/algos all got hit upside the head yesterday. Trump, over in Europe for the 70th anniversary of NATO, made some “passing comments” on trade. By now you are well aware it wasn’t well received in the equity markets. Stocks tumbled on the news that Trump is in “no rush” to make a deal with China [...]

So, stocks did an about face. Futures, which had been up in the early morning hours, suddenly turned lower as we moved into the opening bell. What looked like a nice start to the final month of the year, turned negative fairly quickly. It turned even more negative when Trump “tweeted” out that he was [...]

Stocks surged to a one of largest monthly gains since June. Indexes ended the month higher by better than 3% for the Dow and S&P, while the Nasdaq rallied by 5.25% and the Russell added 5%. What is keen to note here is the performance by the Russell 2000, which is a US centric SMID [...]

Stocks rally to new highs (again) on the back of the weekend news as the shortened Thanksgiving week got underway… Rinse and repeat (this was the Monday opener). Good morning America, good afternoon Europe and good evening Asia. It’s a short week for US trading; closed Thursday all day and closed early on Friday. So [...]

Good morning America, good afternoon Europe, and Good evening Asia. It’s a short week for US trading…Closed Thursday all day and close early on Friday — so if anything is going to happen in the markets, expect it to happen today, tomorrow, or Wednesday… Now I say this because suddenly over the weekend, something interesting [...]

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RISK OFF! At least it was for a bit of the day. At 1:30 all of the indexes were bleeding, with the Dow off by 258 points, the S&P lower by 28 points, the Nasdaq down 100 points, and the Russell lower by 16 points. But by the end of the day, they all rallied [...]

Stocks once again made a run for new highs, only to find resistance at the 3125 level, a level I had identified weeks ago. (It was actually 3127, but really do 2 points really matter at this stage in the game?) As the day wore on the Dow and S&P struggled while the Nasdaq and [...]