Early Update – Pension Funds Rebalance
1115pm ET Ugly morning after a failed backrest of cap-weighted averages’ December window dressing trend, followed by a first leg...
A.M. Update
The last trading day of the year is shaping up to be an ugly one. S&P futures are down -1.25%...
Afternoon Update – Santa Rally Hits a Bump
You may be tired of me hinting at, or saying it, but I do think the big challenge for a...
Market Update – Very Ugly Santa Rally Trade
231 p.m. ET The seasonal Santa Rally is taking a pretty hefty knock on the chin today. All of the...
3C Update and December Theme
1210 p.m. ET The 3C charts for December’s Mega Cap Window Dressing, FOMC and post-FOMC decline rebound into price resistance...
Early Update – Mega Caps The Focus of Selling
1115 a.m. ET The averages are off to a weak start. I don’t think yields specifically prompted the decline this...
Daily Wrap – SKEW New Record
Today was a lackluster session. Stocks were very little changed and split down the middle on either side of unchanged....
LMND Bull Flag
348 p.m. ET I’ve been thumbing through price charts. Full disclosure, I now nothing about this company, other than the...
Intraday Update
309 p.m. ET The major averages sit about +0.05% to +0.1% higher with Small Caps still the exception, up +0.85%,...
Market Update
The averages are mixed and very little changed, except Small Caps, up +0.7%. However, Small Caps have the most bearish...
A.M. Update
S&P 500 futures are down -0.3% as yields climb higher. The 10-yr yield is four basis points higher than Tuesday...
Afternoon Update
As I talked about yesterday and wrote earlier today, with nothing to hedge, no economic data, amid light volume and...
A Green Christmas
1108 a.m. ET Today’s session marks the official start to the “Santa Claus Rally” period (last five trading days of...
Daily Wrap – December 2022’s Antithesis?
Stocks traded in thin conditions ahead of the Christmas / Santa Rally period. The averages ultimately closed mixed, but with...
Afternoon Update
Volatility gauges across the board (VIX -8%, VXN -10.8% and VVIX -7.6%) are trending lower as I, nor the market,...
Intraday Market Update – Yields as a Headwind
3 p.m. ET With all other things equal — which may be a stretch going into a half-day holiday shortened...
Market Update & Weekend Research Findings
109 p.m. ET First let’s deal with the market today, then below I’ll touch on some of the observations from...
A.M. Update
S&P futures ae down -0.2%. Many market participants are in vacation-mode in front of this week’s holiday-related closures. The NYSE...
Afternoon Update – Patience Pays
Stocks have been energized in part by the price action in Treasuries, which follows the release of the Personal Income...
Market Update
107 p.m. ET It has been quite a day so far with a little of everything in the stew: dovish...