COMMENTARY

A huge day for the stock market entering the week as traders and investors alike are adjusting after last week’s wild ride. Friday’s session certainly appeared as if we saw capitulation at least in the near term. Given the massive volume on Friday and where the...

Fear of contagion is real amongst traders sending stocks lower. Where this market heads next is anyone’s guess it has paid to have a risk management strategy. Cutting your losses and proper position sizes have helped tremendously. Even hedges have helped quite a bit....

We finally have a correction on our hands after a long run up from October 2019. Tourism has taken a tremendous hit as governments and commercial airlines have halted flights restricting travel. We can’t blame them but the stock market is adjusting, but will this lead...

After a long weekend stocks are set to open lower. WMT disappointed with earnings out of the gate Tuesday including its outlook. Not the kind of news you want to see to begin the day. QQQs and SPYs remain above their 10-day moving average. Something to keep an eye on...

The Coronavirus saga continues as new cases are confirmed along with new deaths. After yesterday’s rebound from Tuesday’s stall day Thursday will not get off to a good start. If we begin to see churning in this market it will be a sign this rally has lost its might...

Once again, we see investors and traders a like flocking to the NASDAQ 100. Gaining more than 1.2% the NASDAQ 100 continues to be the leading index amongst the major indexes. Far behind the leader the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 simply could not find the strength to...

The panic over the Coronavirus has subsided as stocks have recovered their losses. Small Caps are still struggling to keep pace with the large cap stock indexes. Whatever the reason maybe we still see the group as a whole lag the entire market. We have no idea if or...

Earnings season continues to roll on. We are seeing continued overall positive news, while not tremendous growth we are not seeing earnings falling off a cliff. The soup de jour happens to be the health scare going on in China. While the flu virus here in the US has...

A new threat to the market comes from a virus as outbreak continues to spread. Like the Swine Flu and Ebola virus the threat is real and human life will be impacted. Will it be contained? The optimist says yes, but we are not here to predict when or whether the virus...

The ability for this market to continue this pace is on the borderline of absurd. Regardless, of what we may think where this market is about to head, we must make sure we maintain our risk process. How many traders last week bailed on the market thinking we were...