Market Analysis 
Flatliners
(1)In the movie Flatliners aspiring medical doctors tried to unlock the mysteries of death by, well, killing themselves. It was meant to be a controlled death of course, to flat line on the heart rate monitor for a few minutes to find out what wonders where to be found “on the other side” only to… Read More ›
You Snooze You Lose
While market headlines speak of record highs the actual market environment is doing a great job of lulling everyone to sleep. Endless tight ranges of nothingness interrupted by the occasional gap. The record low volatility environment continues to frustrate traders that love actual price ranges to trade. My view remains that markets are setting themselves… Read More ›
Breakdown
New market highs again, lowest $VIX readings for a September in history. Bears are staying in the zoo. Got to love OPEX week rallies. They are standard fare to the program structure of markets (I’ve talked about them for years) and last week’s oversold readings in financials yielded a clue that a bounce was at… Read More ›
AAPL Burning
Full disclosure: I’m writing this on an $AAPL device with another one on the table next to me and probably another 4 or 5 scattered across the house. Yup, I love $AAPL devices, wouldn’t have it any other way. The stuff works, it does everything I need and once in a while I upgrade my… Read More ›
The Relevance of Technical Charts
This is the age we currently live in: Ever more money is flowing into passive funds such as ETFs. Active managers are more often than not underperforming index benchmarks. Central banks, corporate buybacks, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, etc. all have their varied reasons to add to the currently insatiable demand for stocks. Computerized algorithmic… Read More ›
The Unexpected
NOTE: Below is the Daily Brief published for clients before market open August 14 outlining our strategy for OPEX week along with some broader market influencing considerations. These briefs are sent out daily and give background as to how we approach markets/trade direction and may include macro, economic, policy and/or political considerations. We augment these briefs… Read More ›
Caution: One Way Street (COWS)
In addition to all the macro and technical analysis I’ve published as of late I’d like to just add one additional key point: Caution – Markets are not a one way street. But that’s precisely what price discovery has evolved to and that opens markets to the possibility of a potential risk off event currently… Read More ›
Welcome to the Danger Zone
Welcome to the danger zone: 2484 $SPX. We hit it this week. If you are a long time reader you know this is a hot zone in markets I’ve been talking about for a long time and now that we have reached this area I would be amiss to not talk about it. And I… Read More ›
