French Election Crushes Volatility
Today's rally mostly happened last night when the Futures markets opened. The major index Futures gapped up and then stayed in a tight range throughout the trading session. The biggest surprise was the volatility crush caused by the French election. The market breathed a sigh of relief as only one of the two anti-EU candidates…
Significant Risk Prevalent for the Week Ahead
The major stock indices once again ended a week within the expected move and that is why we have been talking about this in every weekend update for months. Going into next week implied volatility has risen across the board signaling major risk in the market. The expected move in the S&P has not been…
Oil Reversal Disrupts Markets
Stocks opened higher this morning shaking off more bad earnings this time from IBM. However, as the trading day progressed indices so lower highs and lower lows into the close. Oil sudden tumble mid day sent shockwaves into the rest of the market. In tonight's video we will identify the single best opportunity in the…
Bonds Biggest Risk to Stocks
Stocks ended the day slightly lower as poor earnings from GS and JNJ pulls the markets down. However, the big mover of the day was the Bond market. For those that don't know the bond market is much larger than the stock market. Bonds are a flight to safety and with volume extremely light in…
Are Sellers Just Warming Up?
On Thursday traders made it clear that they did not want to be long going into a 3 day weekend. Stocks sold off sending the S&P to the lowest level since March 27th. The small cap stocks continue to get hit the hardest as the Russell has now fallen into negative territory year to date.…
Game On! Volatility Readings Explode Higher
Stocks ended the day lower off about .50% except for the RUT which faired much worse down 1.3%. Tonight video is critical to watch. Volatility risk readings have exploded higher and have reached critical points. These levels are signaling that market risk is imminent. Watch the video so you know what has happened the last…
Risk Gauges are Rising Fast
Stocks rallied this morning before selling off back to where they started. The one thing that kept rallying all day was short term volatility. With this risk gauge rising fast watch this video to find out the best opportunity right now...
Is a Sell-Off Going to Happen?
In a 12 hour span the markets saw missiles fly into Syria and a weak jobs report that missed expectations. And yet the markets ended the day unchanged. In this critical weekend update there is a lot to look at. The inverted volatility futures, the bond market, and the elevated expected move are all screaming…
The Volatility Beast has Awoken
Stocks took off higher this morning on a positive ADP report and then gave it all back and then some in the last 2 hours of the trading day. The market that we have been watching the last few days has been the volatility market which is showing major signs of risk on the table.…
Markets Test a Sell Off
Stocks sold off this morning as Bonds rallied more than 1 full point in an hour. Stocks recovered more than half of the losses on the day. One of the most interesting aspects of the market was the volatility futures. For the first time since the sell off in January of 2016 this happened...