You know, with all the pandemic crisis confronting investors over the last 45 days or so, it gets lost in the mix that this is indeed an election year. And on that note, the S&P 500 (SPX) hasn’t been lower during an election year with a President up for re-election going back to 1950. We…
Welcome to another trading week. In appreciation to all of our Basic membership level participants and daily readers of finomgroup.com content, we offer the following excerpts from our Weekly Research Report. Our weekly report is extremely detailed and has proven to help guide investors and traders during all types of market conditions with thoughtful insights…
Over the last 2-3 weeks, Finom Group has outlined our market outlook during the bear market saga, by forecasting a period of consolidation. Consolidation is a phase within a phase of the bear market known as the bottoming process. Don’t lose site of the efficiency for which bear markets unfold, simply because it seems as…...
Welcome to this week’s State of the Markets with Wayne Nelson and Seth Golden. Please click the following link to review the SOTM video. In this week’s episode we take a look at a market that has exacted the largest percentage gain relief rally during a bear market in history, but has since pulled back. The final leg of the relief…
Written by Neil Shearing, Group Chief Economist 28 April 2020 Last week I outlined how and when virus-induced shutdowns are likely to be eased. This week I discuss how the world may have changed when economies reopen. As I have noted before, the lockdowns have curtailed both supply and demand. Shuttering workplaces and restricting movement…
Market and Volatility Commentary COVID-19 forecasts – providing updates and modeling details Given the unprecedented heath crisis and resulting economic shock, our research focused on understanding the timeline of the pandemic. In a series of papers (see here, here, here, here, here, and here) we provided a set of forecasts about the pandemic that were…...
The S&P 500 (SPX) managed another significant achievement post the fastest bear market plunge in history on Tuesday with a climb back to and above 2,920. But, with that milestone achievement and edging closer to a 61.8% Fibonacci retracement level, off the lows in March, the benchmark index quickly reversed all of it’s morning gains…
Monday markets proved to pick up right where Friday left off with a continued surge in stock prices. The rally didn’t show itself in the safe way that the majority of the relief rally since March 24th though. No, on Monday breadth was strong, tech did not lead, small-caps outperformed and the Equal-Weight S&P 500…
Welcome to another trading week. In appreciation to all of our Basic membership level participants and daily readers of finomgroup.com content, we offer the following excerpts from our Weekly Research Report. Our weekly report is extremely detailed and has proven to help guide investors and traders during all types of market conditions with thoughtful insights…
The world is an imperfect place! Remember that as an investor, engaged in an imperfect marketplace with imperfect systems, theories and analysis. Given this fact, and I think we can all agree it is a fact, one shouldn’t expect perfection in their market participation. There will be both wins and losses, trials and tribulations, good…...
