ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
The Market Breadth Summary: Latest Warning The Stock Market Summary Rising oil prices dominated the trading backdrop last week. Soaring oil prices helped emphasize inflation fears and bolstered higher bond yields (rates). While the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ survived tests of critical support thanks in large part to strong rebounds in AI-related stocks, small … Read more
The Market Breadth Summary The Stock Market Summary Juneteenth symbolizes the tension between hopes and dreams and the realities required to achieve them. That same tension was evident across financial markets last week. The same theme of hopes and dreams contrasting with reality played out in the financial markets this past week. Over the past … Read more
A Case for VanEck Real Assets ETF (RAAX) At the end of 2025 I made the case for buying commodities in 2026. I came into this year already owning a large, core basket of Rio Tinto (RIO), BHP Group (BHP), Freeport McMoran (FCX), and some rare earth stocks and looked forward to further growing these … Read more
Stock Market Commentary The bulls win big. The summer of loving stocks continued with the bulls overcoming a major hurdle: the overbought threshold for market breadth. After two failed attempts in the last month, the third attempt became the charm. The charm received a strong endorsement from fresh breakouts by the S&P 500 and the … Read more
Stock Market Commentary: On a weekly basis, the stock market seems to flip its abiding theme. One week after I accused the stock market of sleepwalking, buyers roused the major indices out of their slumber with a new and sudden display of strength. A 13.9% post-earnings surge from Meta Platforms, Inc (META) seemed to set … Read more