COMMENTARY

Coming off AAPL's earnings the NASDAQ was going to slump at the open. CPI figures came in as expected while housing starts showed an unexpected gain. Banks helped the NYSE indexes pushed higher from the start as MS stock reported better than expected results. However,...

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Early morning trading was decidely negative as the news of slowing Chinese growth hit the markets hard. In addition, Producer Price Index was higher than expected showing prices continue to push higher. The bright spot on the day, relatively speaking was the a jump in...

The low volume continued today despite fears Europe will not be able to come together to solve its debt crisis. Insitutions were mainly on the sidelines today, but the price destruction was quite clear. Economic news didn't help the situation as the Empire...

Currently the Big Wave Trading Portfolio and the Big Wave Trading Retirement Portfolio are in cash. The regular account is currently 10% short 16 stocks (12 being initiated during July-August downtrend w/ half of profits taken on 8/8 on all positions). Big Wave...

The low volume rally continues as volume on the S&P 500 registered lower than Wednesday's level and lower than Monday's holiday volume. Finishing the day near the highs of the session was the NASDAQ boosted by GOOG and AAPL stock. GOOG reported stellar earnings...

The Follow-Through Day (FTD) that was not to be. After the release of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting minutes stocks took a jump to the upside. Traders hung their hats on the revelation the committee openly discussed another round of bond buying (or...

Slovakia was center stage for the market pundits as the country was set to vote on the EFSF. Early morning selling gave way to buying pushing all the major indexes into the positive territory. Volume struggled on the NYSE to eclipse Monday's holiday level. The NASDAQ...

For the fourth day out of five the stock market rises on the hope of European leaders being able solve the debt crisis plaguing the continent. Despite a late day sell-off the market was able to rally back to the highs of the session with the NASDAQ closing on its...

Big Wave Trading is currently in a wait-and-see mode as we wait for either a Follow-Through Day or a failure of this rally attempt before getting heavily invested again. Currently the BWT retirement portfolio is 20% long one medical stock and 80% cash. The BWT advisor...