Market Update – Nasdaq In, Small Caps Out
1:19 P.M. ET It’s been challenging to get this post out, capturing charts and observations while also paying attention to...
Intraday Update
The S&P filled the gap and bumped into last Thursday’s high seems to be meeting a little bit of resistance...
Market Update – The Daily Rotation Continues; SPX Fills the Gap
1:40 p.m. ET This week has been a bit bipolar in terms of daily rotations or flip-flops. A certain sector/s...
Afternoon Update
VIX’s relative weakness is definitely playing a role in supporting the market today as are notably lower rates. SPX...
Market Update – Tech, Mega Caps and Semis Strong Start Faded
1:15 p.m. ET Over the last hour, President Trump announced new tariff rates effective August 1, 2025, for several countries,...
Intraday Update
The S&P 500 continues to oscillate within a relatively tight range around its flat opening, currently down 0.1%. There has...
Market Update
1:03 p.m. ET We are off to to a slow start. It seemed from 3C charts yesterday that we would...
Intraday Update
2:54 PM ET The first two tariff lets to South Korea and Japan are very similar and are a last...
The trade war is heating up again to resume tensions as soon as noon
12:30 PM ET President Trump announced that he signed 12 letters to various countries, informing them of planned tariff increases...
Palladium
On June 26th I featured a breakout from a bullish consolidation in Palladium. To recap, “Palladium futures exploded +6.7% higher....
Intraday Update
12:46 PM ET There’s a little weakness in the mega cap space as we near the 1 p.m. ET session...
Market Update – Solid Participation
12:22 PM ET I’m not sure how much useful data we’re gonna get out of today’s half day session as...
Messy Cross Currents
While there’s an element of correction of yesterday’s extreme shift in style factors (rotation) that was/is driven by a popular...
Correcting & Waiting
1:46 PM ET The market awaits the fate of large reconciliation bill, and all tomorrow morning’s Non Farm Payrolls report....
Afternoon Update
Value style factors have a 200 basis point lead over growth. The momentum style factor has been obliterated today. The...
Q3 Rotation Very Obvious
12:45 PM ET There’s a lot happening today. I’ve suspected that with the turn of the quarter we are going...
Afternoon Update
Most of the averages are advancing into the close. The advance follows a Bloomberg report that Apple (AAPL +2.2%) is considering using AI...
Market Update – RUnning Out The Clock?
1:29 PM ET The stock market is modestly positive, drifting near opening levels and very dull. S&P sectors are mixed...
Quick Afternoon Update
Who knows, but I do wonder when seeing VVIX’s relative strength early on today, whether there was something behind...
Trade Concerns and 3C
3:09 PM ET This is pretty timely considering my last post ending with the uncertainty of tariffs even amid the...
