Big Wave Trading Portfolio Update

The Big Wave Trading Directional Models have undergone a couple of changes the past week. The first change was on Thursday when our models switched to NEUTRAL following the back-to-back gap reversals in overbought conditions. The second change came on Friday when the...
AAPL Exposed to Selling; Beige Book Fails to Inspire

AAPL Exposed to Selling; Beige Book Fails to Inspire

Small Caps and the NASDAQ 100 led the market lower today after solid gains yesterday.  The news regarding the Celebrity Nude scandal finally go to AAPL as traders were using the excuse as the stock sold off in heavy volume.  Volume on the NYSE ran lower on the...

Small Caps Rally; NASDAQ Volume Explodes

The stock market welcomed back traders with a dull day, but big time volume.  On the bright side we did have the NASDAQ and Russell 2000 pushed higher.  Institutions were back from summer vacation in a big way as volume jumped well over Friday’s level.  Aside from the...

Big Wave Trading Portfolio Update

I hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day weekend. All of our models are under BUY conditions and our portfolio remains fully invested with a very tiny hedge that was added on Friday due to the short and intermediate term overbought conditions. If the rally continues,...

GDP Blows Past Estimates; Stocks Pullback in Light Trade

The big story to start the session was the big upward revision of the second quarter GDP.  Expectations were for the second quarter to have grown at 3.9% annualized rate, but revisions were well past that at 4.2%.  The revision was great news for the economy, right? ...