Hedging your long portfolio may be the best way to position oneself as global equities find more selling pressure following the steep declines on Wall Street from Tuesday. U.S. equity futures are pointing to another sharp decline as headlines broke overnight concerning the arrest of Huawie’s CFO. Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in…
So we had a pretty strong rally in the major indices on Monday. By now, everyone is aware that a “trade truce” between China and the U.S. has resulted in the latest market uptick. The media has taken to task the trade truce, describing it as lacking substance and less likely to prove an actual…
After some alarming headlines on the political front forced U.S. equity markets sharply lower for much of the trading day on Thursday, a late afternoon rally found the major averages slightly lower on the day. Ahead of the G-20 Summit, President Trump discussed with reporters the possibility of easing trade tensions with China. Trump had…
Markets rallied hard on Wednesday and in unison with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell indicating that the FOMC was just below the “neutral rate”. In addition to this statement of great consequence, Powell also indicated that the Fed was looking more closely and willing to align with the economic data. Both of these statements and/or…
I had a conversation with a client in the late evenings recently. Yes, in the late evening and as the selling pressure in the markets persisted last week. The conversation centered on the client’s e-mini Futures positions and the general sentiment for the market going forward. He was a bit confused as to the correlations…
Everything bounced on Monday on… well there really wasn’t any significant news for which the market could reactively bounce. Sure the UK and EU agreeing on a Brexit format/plan was a positive, but it’s highly unlikely that would cause a greater than 1.5% move higher in the S&P 500 (SPX). No, we simply found some…
In the week that was, we had a rare 2018 example of market inefficiency. For much of the year and at one point for 26 consecutive weeks, the S&P 500 (SPX) managed to close within its weekly expected move. For the trading week that ended November 23rd, the SPX weekly expected move was $47. Keep…...
Welcome back to the markets and what promises to be a very light trading day. U.S. equity futures are pointing to another negative open on Wall Street after the Thanksgiving Day holiday. Wednesday proved to be another bearish day even with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and Nasdaq (NDX) finishing basically flat and the…
If you thought Monday was ugly for global equities, it didn’t get any better on Tuesday. U.S. equity indexes fell sharply, again, on Tuesday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) leading the way lower by 2.2 percent. The Dow was down more than 630 points intraday at its lows. The Nasdaq (NDX) fell 1.7%…
The market is definitively testing the resolve of long-term investors and has been since October you might say. Earnings are rising over 20% for 2018, sales are growing nearly double-digits and profit margins are at all time highs. But…the major averages are on the verge of turning negative for the year and with the Nasdaq…
