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 High tech stocks keep winning as AI leadership carries the sector and the headline indices, but market breadth keeps failing including a steep downtrend all month. In the prior week, the AI trade hit a short speed bump on AI safety concerns, but last week’s rally confirmed … Read more
The Market Breadth Summary: AI Crash The Stock Market Summary First, technology cracked and next the AI trade crashed. The crash is not obvious because the stock market absorbed the crash quickly and, perhaps most importantly, many AI trades are still up significantly for the year despite trading down 30%, 40%, 50% and more from … Read more
The Market Breadth Summary The Stock Market Summary Just like many of you, I have been glued to the World Cup drama. I have been rooting for the United States and several other countries, and it got me thinking about how much the stock market resembles a soccer match: pass, rotate, advance. The current stock … Read more
The Market Breadth Summary The Stock Market Indices Last week was largely about the SpaceX IPO (SPCX) and the anticipation surrounding the debut. The stock priced at $135 and a $1.75 trillion market cap, opened at $150, traded almost as high as $177, and closed at $160.96 on 521.8M in trading volume. If SPCX eventually … Read more
Stock Market Commentary Last week was billed as another marquee Fed week. While decision day brought a lot of intraday volatility, the churn became a mere speedbump as market breadth yawned and the stock market melt-up continued. The main message I heard from the Fed was an acknowledgement of an economy weak enough to warrant … Read more