Short the Rally? Here's Your Answer
Stocks rally back strong today as short sellers scrambled to cover their shorts. The question though - is the selling over or can we short this rally? In tonights crucial video newsletter update we look at the opportunities and risk for the remainder of the week. Watch this urgent video right now to find out…
2nd Half Of 2018 Should See An Economic Rebound
GDP Growth Is Probably Weak In Q1 It appears by most accounts Q1 2018 won’t be a great quarter for GDP growth. Keep in mind, the expectations have been high because of the tax cut and subsequent fiscal spending increase. The latest $1.3 trillion budget, which was passed on Friday, has an $80 billion increase in…
Markets Imply More Serious Moves Ahead, Here is What you need to know
Stocks rocked on Friday as heavy selling comes into the market. In this crucial weekend video newsletter we look at the risks and opportunities for next week. All traders and investors need to be on high alert because the opportunities will come and go with or without you. Watch this urgent video right now to…
Stocks Falter Because Of Rate Hikes & Tariffs
Stocks Falter Early in Fridays’ trading session it looked like the market was going to rebound or at least stabilize from the terrible selloff on Thursday. After 2PM, the selloff intensified as the S&P 500 closed down 2.10%. It looks like the only thing that stopped the S&P 500 from falling below the correction bottom was…
Stocks Crater On Tariff Announcements
Stocks Crash & The Long Bond Rallies Thursday was a horrible day for the stock market as the S&P 500 fell 2.52%. It is now down 7.98% from the all-time high. It’s only up 2.43% from the correction bottom in February. The market is now down for the quarter which is over next Friday. The VIX…
Fear Grips Market; More to Come?
While yesterday's rate increase was long-expected, and a rising-rate environment to go with it, has this already been priced in? If so, many rate-sensitive equities might not be priced to perfection any more and today's sell-off showed that this repricing might be just getting started. This all fits with our earlier contention that we'd have…
Yield Curve Steepens After Fed Meeting
The Markets’ Reactions To Fed Decision The Fed raised rates by 25 basis points and increased the guidance for rate hikes in 2019 and 2020. I consider this to be a hawkish decision. We’ll go over the wording of the statement in this article, but first let’s look at the markets’ reactions to this decision…
Fed Hikes & Raises Forward Guidance
Fed Raises Rates In A Hawkish Hike As expected, the Fed raised interest rates by 25 basis points. In my opinion, the hike was hawkish because the Fed was one vote away from switching its expectations to 4 hikes this year instead of 3. My expectations have been slightly more dovish than the street because…
Rising Rates Pressure Markets
As expected the Fed raises short terms rates by 25 basis points. This is the first increase under the new FOMC Chairman. Volatility returned and it has become a traders market with lots of opportunities. In this video update we look at lots of trading opportunities that we have taken. Watch the video now so…
Yields Rise As Markets Await Fed Meeting
Stocks Rally Slightly The S&P 500 was up 0.15% on Tuesday. It’s surprising to see the Nasdaq was up 0.27% since Oracle was down 9.5% on weak guidance and Facebook was down 2.6%. The S&P 500 is almost exactly in the middle of its range. I’ll say the range started on February 9th which was the day…