How to Risk Mitigate in the short-VOL Trade
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After 20 years in the retail and consumer goods sector, I became a research analyst and market strategist for Capital Ladder Advisory Group. Since 2011, I have published some 400+ articles surrounding mainstream retailers like Bed Bath & Beyond, Target, Costco and more. I've covered consumer goods corporations such as Apple, Keurig Green Mountain, SodaStream, Skullcandy, Fitbit and more. To date, I've garnered over a hundred media references to my analytics including Forbes. Presently, I am a contracted consultant to many retail and consumer goods companies in North America and manufacturing entities in China and Korea.
The S&P 500 Plotted Course Has Been Prepared
The S&P 500 (SPX) came within 9 points of reaching it’s all-time record high earlier in the trading week and before declining in the latter part of the week. As shown in the chart below, the greatest daily decline for the week came on Friday, with a drop of roughly .70 percent. All three major…...
VIX Pops Its Head Up as S&P 500 Shows Signs of Exhaustion
In our daily market dispatch Thursday, we discussed the bear vs. bull debate with a focus on the bear case delivered by Morgan Stanley. The firm’s chief market strategist has outlined its bearish case for a rolling bear market and offered the $1trn market cap achievement by Apple Inc. (AAPL) as highlighting the possible end…
Market Debate Rises With Rates Rising & Tech Potentially Falling Out of Favor
After all the hullabaloo on Wall Street Tuesday, the major indices were extremely flat and proved an uneventful trade on Wednesday. The Dow fell slightly with the tech-heavy Nasdaq up a tick. The S&P 500 fell less than a full point as the broadest market index found investors wondering whether or not Tesla (TSLA) is…
S&P Eyes Record Level, VIX Breaks Below 11
The trading day was going swimmingly and seemingly without any headlines of significance until around 1:00 p.m. EST on Wall Street. It was around this time that Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, tweeted out the possibility of taking the company private at $420 per share or at a $72bn market cap. The tweet also outlined that…
The Volatility Clouds Have Begun To Darken
Posted on August 6, 2018 by Andrew Thrasher, CMT I’ve spent a great of time looking at and studying the volatility market. By no means am I the most knowledgeable on the topic, I’m not that naive. But I’ve been fortunate enough to have my research on the volatility index recognized by the CMT…...
Mixed Messages From Goldman Sachs & Morgan Stanley: Forecasts
Over the weekend, Finom Group’s weekly research report focused some attention on the strength of corporate buybacks. In the report titled “Markets Look Poised For Gains, but Mid-Term Turbulence Looms Large”, we discussed how outsized corporate buybacks are during the month of August and as displayed in the following chart. Corporate buybacks are set to…
CandleStick Charting Patterns With David Moadel
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Black ADX Turns Higher
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Earnings Have Proven to Trump Trade War…So Far
Last week, the finale of FANG reports was delivered by Apple Inc. (AAPL) and served to deliver the first $1trn market cap for investors and Wall Street. Some have even characterized the feat of magnificence as “market saving”. With some investor angst alleviated by Apple’s Q3 2018 earnings report, the broader market was pushed higher…
