COMMENTARY
US GDP falls short; Fed holds off on Raising Rates
Not a surprise to see first quarter GDP disappoint as stocks are unable to find their way higher. The Federal Reserve policy statement failed to spark enough buyers to push stocks back to positive territory. Another weak close for the entire market as we continue to...
A Wild Ride as Stocks Close Mixed
A pop at the open was quickly erased as sellers rushed into the market pushing to the lows of the session. Case-Shiller home prices showed some decent gains helping ease some of the premarket selling in futures. The selling came fast and furious, but in this...
Nasty outside Reversal Casts Shadow over Markets
Early morning rise in futures and subsequent open to the market eventually caved and ushered in heavy volume selling. Markit released its PMI reading and it was slightly weaker than expected, but did not hold back the equity markets from rallying just after the...
Big Wave Trading Weekend Update And Top Current Holdings
The Big Wave Trading market models are currently mixed, following last week's gains in the market, with the Nasdaq, Nasdaq 100, SP-500, and NYSE all under operational BUY conditions. The DJIA, DJT, and Russell 2000 remain under an operational NEUTRAL signal. Even with...
A Weak Close Blemishes A Good Day
As the 3pm hour began it appeared this market was ready to rocket higher. Continuing with the trend sellers were able to push the market off their highs of the session. The market did not start of strong with weak economic data hitting the wires. However, buyers...
S&P 500 Advances as Small Caps Lag
After a rocky start to the session the market was able to get a lift into the close. Volume was mixed on the session with volume on the NASDAQ slipped. Small cap stocks lagged on the session, but still remains well within its current uptrend. Despite the high level...
Earnings sink Dow; NASDAQ Shines
There was a tale of two tapes with the Dow Jones Industrial average moving lower on earnings while the NASDAQ exerts leadership. Early gains were hung onto by the NASDAQ, but the S&P 500 and Dow were unable to hang onto the gains set forth by early morning...
Markets Rebound from Friday’s selling
Friday’s session, on the face of it was troubling after fears over global issues and a Bloomberg outage. However, today’s rebound was a good sign as the selling did not follow-through. We continue to see a lack of follow-through on either side of the market here. ...
Big Wave Trading Weekend Update And Top Current Holdings
The Big Wave Trading models did a quick turnabout this past week as our NEUTRAL to BUY operational signal lasted all but a few days. Following Friday's stock market action all of the major market indexes are now back in their trading ranges of the past 1 1/2 months....
NASDAQ Close Above 5000 for 6th Time in History
Dispite mediorcre economic data the NASDAQ was finally able to hang above 5000 and close there as volume swelled across the board. The Federal Reserves Beige book release did help the market push higher, but given volume was higher across the board demonstrated...
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