Pre-Holiday Trade Ushers in Light Volume Advance

Tomorrow’s Good Friday holiday certainly had a few traders headed out early to get a head start on vacation.  Volume was considerably lower across the board, but given the holiday and new month today’s volume does not come as a surprise.  Not much out there today...

Stocks Pullback to Start the Third Quarter

In a near freefall, the market fell immediately after the opening bell setting the day’s lows in the first 30 minutes of trading.  ISM manufacturing data disappointed as many expected the manufacturing sector to grow more than it did.  While still expanding it...

Chop and Slop Continues March Closes with a Whimper

This market continues its choppy nature with the Dow falling 200 points, but small caps held up relatively well.  Weighing on the S&P 500 today were health care and industrial stocks.  Closing lower by nearly 90 basis points the S&P 500 had a difficult time...

Markets Jump; Volume Mixed

Nice day across the board with solid price gains despite mixed volume.  The NASDAQ enjoyed solid gains with volume higher on the exchange.  NYSE volume ended lower, but typical for a Monday session.  This week is a holiday shortened week with Friday’s Good Friday...

Big Wave Trading Weekend Update And Top Current Holdings

The Big Wave Trading portfolio is under an operational NEUTRAL signal across the board, following Wednesday’s surprise no news heavy volume sell off. It is extremely rare to almost non-existent to see our model switch from a BUY signal to a NEUTRAL signal right...

Stocks Find Support, but Close Lower

Fears over the dollar, plane crash, and potential war in Yemen had many traders scared this morning.  Heavy selling began the day and it appeared as if we were heading down the same path as yesterday’s market.  As the early afternoon progressed it appeared we were...