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 If you are asking where and when this AI-focused sell-off will end, you are asking the wrong question. Instead of asking for forecasts, the calm and disciplined traders and investors ask about managing risks while seeking opportunity. Thus, the main thing that changes within this framework is … Read more
The Market Breadth Summary The Stock Market Summary The stock market tentatively moved away from oversold’s edge. While small caps clung to critical support, the equal weight S&P 500 rallied most of the week and even ended its primary downtrend. The supportive moves prevented market breadth from revisiting the prior week’s lows even as the … 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 I focused on two major developments during the past week of trading: the reemergence of oil and the skittishness of the AI trade. The resumption of the war against Iran nudged oil higher after multiple attacks against oil tankers had already brought an end to oil’s weeks-long … Read more
The Market Breadth Summary Stock Market Commentary The major indices closed marginally lower for the week, but market conditions deteriorated notably beneath the surface as the AI panic continued to weigh on stocks. The week started off with broad-based selling in the wake of an AI doomsday post from a little known research group called … Read more