Wal-Mart surprised the market with an earnings miss, as adjusted per-share earnings came in at $1.33, below the $1.37 consensus of analysts polled by FactSet. The miss overshadowed a revenue beat. Wal-Mart reported strong holiday sales Tuesday, but said online sales growth slowed during the quarter. The retail giant reported same-store-sales (SSS) rose 2.6% in the…
After an outside reversal trading day last Friday that found the Nasdaq going from up 1% to negative .23% and the Dow and S&P 500 basically flat for the day, index futures are in the red and following the lead of Asian markets. Friday’s late day reversal came on the announcement from the Robert Mueller…
They’ve been at it for nearly two-full weeks now, the MEDIA MAVENS! The demonization of the VIX, Volatility complex and those who trade it seems never-ending, but in time… in time it will end. Jim Cramer of CNBC, Thestreet.com and Action Alerts continues to purport the greatest and most sensationalistic characterization of those who short…
How Does SVXY Work? February 9, 2018 Vance Harwood Just about anyone who’s looked at a multi-year chart for a long volatility fund like Barclays’ VXX has thought about taking the other side of the trade. ProShares’ SVXY is an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) that allows you bet against funds like VXX while avoiding…
After a 253-point jump on the Dow Jones Industrial Average in yesterday’s trade, Dow Futures are pointing to another 250-point jump at the open. The major averages have and continue to build on the momentum from last week’s rebound even as some of the latest economic data has come in worse than expected. Retail sales…
Well, the economic data released today was anything but favorable and yet the market, for now, is seemingly shrugging off the data. Everyone was waiting with bated breadth for the inflationary data coming into today’s market trade, hoping for a benign reading. But what they got was worse than expected in the way of CPI.…
Can U.S. equities stay on track with a 4th consecutive day of gains and after a severe correction? While the magnitude of the correction was an average 12% for the Dow Industrial Average and S&P 500, how quickly it achieved correction territory and with such extreme volatility found itself with great fear in the market…
After two strong market performance days, Tuesday is looking like yet another reversal with U.S. equity futures in the red ahead of the market open. The Dow, Nasdaq and benchmark S&P 500 all finished higher by more than 1.3% in Monday’s trading session and after the White House revealed the budget. President Donald Trump unveiled…
After last week’s measured action against extremes, U.S. equities look poised to rebound. The downturn in U.S. equities last week ended a streak of 404 trading days without a 5% pullback in stock prices from the previous high. That marked the longest such streak in market history, an extreme. The S&P 500 closed on Friday…
When Jim Cramer blamed “a group of complete morons” for the recent market downturn, he didn’t necessarily call out short-vol traders by name, but it certainly isn’t difficult to read between the lines: Cramer has also recently called XIV a “phony product” as well as a “toxic cigarette for the market.” Sure, it’s easy to…
