ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
Introduction I have been working on a framework to make sense of AI’s impact on the enterprise software industry. The ongoing SaaSpocalypse caused by an AI Panic has given this research extra urgency because I suspect the sell-off has created contrarian opportunities to buy impacted stocks for significant upside gains in coming years. I created … Read more
The Market Breadth Summary Stock Market Commentary After five straight down weeks, the stock market finally enjoyed an up week. The move looked strong enough to flash key signs of a bottom in the making. The last day of trading for the holiday shortened week was particularly telling. The stock market gapped lower at the … Read more
The Market Breadth Summary Stock Market Commentary Uncertainty is the theme for this market, extreme uncertainty in geopolitics, economic conditions, monetary policy, and domestic politics. The accumulated uncertainty has made the market war weary and exhausted buyers. This exhaustion dampens the potential for oversold conditions to deliver a meaningful bounce in the stock market. For … Read more
The Market Breadth Summary Stock Market Commentary A week ago, I claimed that the stock market was all about oil. Now the stock market is all about war. Oil prices are up because of the war by the U.S. and Israel against Iran. An even larger issue is the cascade of impacts from an escalating … Read more
The Market Breadth Summary Stock Market Commentary Oil prices loom over financial markets. Oil prices are being driven largely by whether the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed following Iran’s retaliation against attacks by the U.S. and Israel. The inverse correlation over the last two weeks has been clear: oil prices up, stock prices down … Read more