How to Ride the Market’s “Great Risk Rollercoaster”
Another week with a wild start… and a weak finish, down about 1% for the day. This market is trading in an extremely tight range and has been for a looong time now. It’s a market desperate for a catalyst just isn’t finding any - not in data, not in news, not in Tweets. In…
How To Trade This “Tariff Tantrum” Tape
Stocks have slowly but steadily crept higher since the start of the new year, and by most metrics I track, it looks like this trend is set to continue into the near-term future. But already this year, I’ve heard stories of traders blowing up their accounts due to the market’s volatility. But when you zoom…
The Charts Say We’re On the Edge of a Move
The S&P 500 is in a funny place right now. On the chart I’ll show you in a second, it appears the market’s ready to make a breakout… or drop… by about 5%. I won’t claim to have a crystal ball; it could go either way. That means we need to find a setup that’ll…
The Market Is Stuck in a Volatility Box
After getting knocked down this morning stocks began to creep up slightly in the hour or so before the close, but don’t read too much into that. This market is desperate for two things - a catalyst and some clarity. Trouble is, there’s not much of either right now. The market just can’t get a…
The Bulls Backed Down the Bears (Again) - Here’s What to Do
Another week… another gap down to start. This time, however, the bulls reasserted control of the tape much more quickly than before, and now we see stocks pressing back and onward to new highs. I said last week that I expected software to emerge as a leader in the wider tech sector, and I…
Here’s the Upside in Redefining the Bull Market
What's in a name? I asked our TheoChat trading room members whether we're in a bull or a bear market. A clear supermajority replied that they felt we were in a bull market. When I asked how they defined it, the typical answer was, "higher highs and higher lows." But the answer just prompted more…
TheoTrade’s Tale of the Tape: Communications Have More to Say
Some moments in time pack more activity into a single week than in years past—and I believe we are living in one of those moments. Markets act as a discounting mechanism; in other words, they continuously bring future expectations into today’s pricing. Today’s headline risks are as elevated as they have been in recent memory.…
Introducing… TheoTrade’s Crypto Hour!
There are periods in history where more happens in the span of several months than several years. We lived through such a period back during covid, and now it seems like we’re entering another one of those times. And it’s during times like these where markets provide tremendous opportunities to level up one’s station. This…
How China’s A.I. Just Transformed the U.S. Tech Landscape - And Not in the Way You Think
It’s been a whirlwind week for markets, especially on the tech front. Stocks opened Monday reeling from the DeepSeek news out of China. Even an announcement from Alibaba about a major AI development failed to attract significant media attention. Artificial intelligence has been a dominant theme in the U.S. over the past year, driving much…
Markets Are Holding Up… But Mega-Caps Are Cracking
You know how it goes - markets get shaky but one or more trillion-dollar mega-caps drag ‘em kicking and screaming higher. We heard that story who-knows-how-many times in 2024. Usually NVDA was the workhorse; sometimes it was TSLA or AAPL. But this is 2025. This is the market’s “new day.” And right now it’s the…