ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
A correction in financial markets is conventionally defined as a decline of at least 10% from an all-time high. At its lows of the day, the NASDAQ (COMPQX) found itself down 9.3% from the all-time high set almost two months ago. The depths of this decline also marked an important breach: the NASDAQ traded below … Read more
Stock Market Commentary The stock market indices benefited from a strong 2021. year. However, under the surface, declining market breadth betrayed the bullish narrative for a wide swath of stocks. A disappointing start to the new year for the indices was even worse for those stocks already limping into the end of last year. The … Read more
Stock Market Commentary The stock market indices enjoyed an impressive year. However, weak and declining market breadth produced numerous exceptions to the strong performance of indices and ETFs. A number of important and well-known individual stocks corrected, collapsed, and crashed in 2021. For some, the tailwinds of the pandemic ran out. For others, investors tired … Read more
Identify Parabolic Trading I often warn about the dangers of chasing parabolic trading action in stocks and currencies. Since parabolic trading tends to end with steep price reversals, traders need to know how to identify trouble. A parabolic price run-up is an extreme uptrend. It is usually brief and features frequent, often consecutive, trading days … Read more
Stock Market Commentary News of a new 30-spike protein COVID-19 variant sent financial markets into a tumble. The rapid news flow combined with a shortened, holiday trading day to deliver broad-based and intense selling pressure. As the market absorbs this latest blow, it should become clearer that COVID-19 is a new normal. That is, the … Read more