ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
A month ago I laid out the case and conditions for bottoming across the collection of ARK funds. The key pivot rested with the ARK Fintech Innovation ETF (ARKF). It still is the first and only of the pre-pandemic ARK funds to break its pandemic era closing low. Over the past month, ARKF struggled mightily … Read more
When Cathie Wood anticipated a “doozie of a correction” in early 2021, she surely did not expect a complete collapse in the mania and bubble she had enjoyed during the first year of the pandemic. However, the cash machine betting on the downtrend in the ARK Funds may finally stop operations soon. Last week, one … Read more
TLDR: Coinbase Global, Inc (COIN) did not directly answer the question about a new disclosure: can a bankruptcy filing by Coinbase result in the loss of a customer’s assets? The Rolling Disaster I am one unhappy Coinbase (COIN) shareholder. After alternating between buying and shorting COIN at much higher levels, I finally settled on buying … Read more
Stock Market Commentary: After much resistance to Fed hawkishness, the U.S. stock market gave way to fresh bearishness. The major indices dropped into new depths of the bear den. The stocks below are snapshots of the latest deterioration in the price action and decline in the technical health underlying the stock market. The ARK funds … Read more
Stock Market Commentary The stock market is scraping by just above oversold territory. The churn of last week has created a mosaic different trading conditions. The bears are salivating at the all-time lows. The hopefuls like me are finding slivers of opportunity in the breakouts. The stock charts in this review cover some of everything. … Read more