COMMENTARY
S&P sours the market mood; Stocks end the day well off the day’s high
More hope and change rhetoric from the Eurozone helped boost stocks at the open. Stocks shrugged off a worse than expected reading from ISM non-manufacturing index as well as factory orders. Zooming to new highs on the day it appeared the major indexes looked to...
Big Wave Trading Portfolio Update
Last week was an exciting week for traders as a market that looked ready to rollover to new lows rallied hard on Monday and Wednesday with volume on Wednesday being extremely strong. Due to Monday and Wednesday the model switched back to 100% neutral and we await a...
Short covering or is this uptrend for real?
Today’s market consolidation was a certainly nice to see. The normal day would appear, now to be 1% or moves to the upside or down. However, today bucked that mold and put in a decent day for the bulls consolidating recent gains made after Wednesday’s massive move to...
Constructive Pullback/Action As We Wait For A Follow-Through Day
BigWaveTrader will be back later on with market commentary. Until then, enjoy... Talk about a ton of “go” signals in individual stocks, despite the extreme volatility. I am a little surprised that we have so many new long positions based on legit signals and actually...
Stocks surge as Central Banks Coordinate to Stem Bank Failure
Volume exploded at the end of the day as stocks rise more than 4% as European Bank crisis almost hits critical mass. The hot rumor of the day was a major European bank was about to go bust and central banks across the world needed to take quick and decisive action....
Watching For A Follow-Through Day And Full Buy Signal
BigWaveTrader has recently had a baby and continues to be bogged down by this responsibility. Therefore, I will be happily posting commentary tonight in his place. However, today was an extremely busy day and I do not really have time (this is already a late post) to...
Bank downgrades hit after-hours as the NASDAQ slips lower
The story of the day was the bank downgrades after the market closed. During the market session BAC broke through a key pivotal point and continued lower in after-hours. Technology stocks were the ones hit hard during the trading session as stocks like GOOG, AAPL,...
Stocks reverse fortune close higher; volume remains well below average
The NASDAQ avoided its 8th straight down days with a 3.5% gain on the day’s trading. Volume was well below average, but higher than Friday’s shortened session. Today’s gains came after hefty losses from Thanksgiving week as well as the week prior. There were a few...
Big Wave Trading Portfolio Update
It continues to be a rough 2011, minus the July to August downtrend, but it is possible another trend is in the process of developing. Following the rally off the October lows, it started to look possible that a new uptrend might take shape as some new CANSLIM quality...
Holiday trade begins as stocks slump; GDP revised lower
The big economic news of the day was the big revision lower for third quarter Gross Domestic Product. Slower growth is a killer to budget forecasts and does not bode well for business confidence. Volume on the day ran lower, very typical for the Thanksgiving holiday...
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