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 The Stock Market Summary I have been making the case for months that the AI trade is topping. This last week’s price action added yet more confirmation. While the NASDAQ dropped 2% for the week, nine of the eleven S&P 500 sectors finished higher, led by healthcare, materials, and utilities. That … Read more
In April I launched PAIROS, the Panic AI Research On Software, to provide a structured approach for assessing my (contrarian) investment thesis in software companies heavily impacted by the SaaSpocalypse. Atlassian Corporation (TEAM) first emerged as a high conviction pick after the company’s release of its agentic AI platform called Rovo and next after a related PAIROS … Read more
The Market Breadth Summary The Stock Market Indices Last week, retail and software stocks ignited, and the usual AI-related suspects also participated in the rally. Yet the advance unfolded beneath persistently weak market breadth, leaving a notable disconnect between price action and participation. The software rally is particularly interesting and gratifying to me given I … Read more
The Market Breadth Summary Stock Market Commentary Last week was action-packed. Earnings dominated my focus, and the resulting trading action confirmed why it was important to ignore the bearish signals from market breadth last week. The market is as bullish as ever this year at the index level, even though market breadth still stains the … Read more
Earlier this month I launched PAIROS, the Panic AI Research On Software, to provide a structured approaching for assessing the (contrarian) investment thesis in software companies heavily impacted by the SaaSpocalypse. I ran a real-time test of PAIROS on Anthropic’s Mythos and developed a rationale for buying into Palo Alto Networks (PANW). So far, so … Read more