Market Update – Right Shoulder Formation As Expected
1:12 p.m. ET Traders have returned to their desks as month-end flows fade. December kicks off in risk-off mode, with...
Afternoon Update
A couple more potentially interesting developments are taking shape. I don’t want to make too much of it on a...
Market Update – Mega Caps Losing momentum; Precious Metals Breaking Out
11:45 a.m. ET Averages The averages have the same consentient gains as seen Wednesday, presumably as the market goes on...
Market Update
The market is posting another strong, broad-based rally today — exactly the kind of impressive price action you’d expect on...
Afternoon Update
Signals are a mixed bag. Credit is supportive of more upside as credit has gotten a major boost from...
Market Update -Rotation to Defensive, Value, High Beta and Weakness In Chipmakers
1:31 p.m. ET Tech names gave back the bulk of yesterday’s gains in early trade, with considerable weakness among chipmakers...
Afternoon Update
Judging by Credit, volatility, and a few other assets and signals, I suspect the S&P at least tests the last...
Intraday Update – Interesting Parallels
2:29 p.m. ET Bitcoin (+1.85%) isn’t leading tech higher, but acting better than earlier. Nasdaq-100 (5m) & Bitcoin futures. There...
Mega Caps Bounce
12:21 p.m. ET Taking the market’s temperature this first day of a holiday shortened week, the hypothesis of a bounce...
Fed Vice Chair Williams Lifeline
1:13 p.m. ET This morning’s trade has been like a tentative ceasefire between two warring fashions, with a few skirmishes...
Afternoon Update
I suspect there’s more than one thing happening today, a cascade of sorts that seems to start with Bitcoin selling...
Strange, Strange Day
2:18 p.m. ET Super weird day and fast moving for forgive any typos. Nvidia went from up up almost +5%...
Bitcoin Leading Indicator?
11:11 a.m. ET I thought it was interesting that Bitcoin (-1.9%) was lower this morning, and we have seen Bitcoin...
FOMC Minutes No Help
2:44 p.m. ET Without going into all of the details, of which there are plenty with balance sheet conversations, December...
Market Update – Treading Water
1:01 p.m. ET I usually like to let the market go through it’s opening shenanigans and take the pulse. Early...
Afternoon Update
Other than the few divergences touched on in the last post, nothing big has changed. Volatility’s 3C charts are still...
Intraday Update -MEga Caps and Semis Still Weigh
2:35 p.m. ET The major averages are currently well off of session lows, as the broader market attempts to rebound...
Cut Half of Long Volatility Exposure
I sold half of my UVXY long ahead of tomorrow’s VIX futures contract roll, given the effort on 3C charts–...
More Ugliness in Tech/Mega Caps.
12:oo p.m. ET The futures overnight tests didn’t hold any water once the cash market opened. Mega Caps –Mag-7 or...
Afternoon Update – Regional Banks Break; Small Caps Troubling
Earlier Regional Banks (-3.7%) were still holding in their bearish descending triangle consolidation, but they’ve broken and it looks definitive....
