COMMENTARY
Market Begins week with Gains
A solid start to the week with gains across the board as the Trump Bump continues to grow. Volume was lower across the board, but typical for a Monday. We continue to see a healthy market despite what many may think. The NASDAQ continues to obey its 10-day moving...
Reviewing Some Top Current Holdings
Big Wave Trading Weekend Update: Price Is All That Matters
The past six weeks has been a perfect example of why you should always obey your signals and never obey your feelings or emotions when it comes to trading the stock market for a living. For the past six weeks, I have been nervous about the overall bullish sentiment...
Low Volatility Remains; NASDAQ Inches Higher
The story of this market continues to be the lack of volatility despite the Trump bump. It has been 37 days since the S&P 500 has seen a 1% move. While the put/call ratio has been above 1.0 we continue to see the VIX remain near multi-month lows. There is a lot of...
Traders Suffer from Super Bowl Hangover; Stocks Slide in Light Trade
We are going to keep free market commentary light tonight, but we did have a decent day of rest for the market. Lower volume pullbacks are what the doctor ordered for this uptrend. We are now in the pattern of the market opening lower to begin the week only to see us...
Big Wave Trading Weekend Update
Price action. Price action. Price action. This is what it is all about. When you consider all the noise the past two weeks, there still has been one consistent piece of data the entire time. If you take a look at a daily chart of the SP-500 or the Nasdaq you can see...
Fed Holds Rates Steady; AAPL Buoys NASDAQ
Once again stocks find some support at the day’s lows only to rally higher. AAPL’s jump helped out the NASDAQ and NASDAQ 100 tremendously as the stock jumped after reporting earnings. The Fed released a statement after its most recent meeting holding rates steady and...
Small Cap Stocks Lead Rebound
Small cap stocks roared to life as biotechnology stocks rebound after Trump’s meeting with industry leaders. Volume jumped as end of the month rebalancing volume poured end as managers were try to rebalance their portfolios. Things did not look promising heading into...
Stocks Post Worst Performance since Election
Volume jumped across the board giving a day of distribution to all indexes as we just witnessed the worst performance the stock market has had since Trump’s election. A bright spot was certainly the major indexes holding onto key moving averages and the NASDAQ held...
Big Wave Trading Weekend Update
A quiet session on Monday with a bullish intraday reversal, strong sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday on heavier volume, followed by quiet consolidations on lower volume on Thursday and Friday. When you are already fully invested, it doesn’t get much better than that....
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