Are equities about to fall from grace after a seemingly prolonged rally? If you ask two prominent analysts, they seem to believe “the end is near”. The S&P 500 has extended its New Year rally into the current week and after breaking through and closing above a key resistance level last Friday. The feat of…
Some things never change. That’s why they call them permabears! Jeffrey Gundlach was available and ready to declare, yet again, his bear market call and characterization of the market. It’s an annual ritual for Gundlach, the CEO of Double Line Capital. “The stock market was and still is in a bear market. Stocks could…
Wall Street is in the midst of shedding some of its overbought conditions that have persisted in the prior two weeks. The major averages have been lower for the totality of the trading week leading up to Thursday. Small Cap stocks expressed the largest decline on Wednesday and post the release of the ADP private…
The tech sector was hit, once again, quite hard in the early going hours of trading on Wednesday, but the sector rallied hard in the afternoon hours. In total, the trading days proved rather benign with the major averages finishing mixed. The S&P 500 index edged up 1.03 points to 2,888.92, less than 0.1%, and the…
We’re going to take the lengthy edge of verbiage off of this week’s research report by focusing more narrowly on the S&P 500 (SPX) and volatility. The reason for this is mainly the causation of seasonality factors that impact markets in the August-October periods. September being the worst month of the year historically for the…...
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…
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…...
That was something for all the market pundits and critics to behold last week was it not? The mantra surrounding the disbelief in the market rally that started in late April has been FANG, FANG, FANG. What we actually saw during the 5-day reporting cycle for FANG, however, was a market that held up rather…...
We’re going to start with some of the more favorable market headlines before getting into why the Nasdaq is set to pullback significantly as indicated by the equity market futures. The more favorable headlines come from that which has created a major investor sentiment roadblock for several months now, trade tariffs and spats around the…
There’s some good and bad residing within every trading day. Yesterday’s good news was the performance or rotation out of large and midcap stocks and back into small cap stocks as the Russell 2000 Index outperformed its larger peer indices. Rotation is a sign of a healthy market as it points to active market participation…
