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: 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 Summary After months of bearish market breadth, the downtrend ended with a surprising bullish divergence. The stock market quickly transitioned from a bearish to bullish divergence thanks to a rotation away from high tech and AI-related stocks and into small caps, consumer-facing stocks, and others. Micron Technology’s earnings … Read more
The Market Breadth Summary The Stock Market Indices Well, it had to happen. I did not know when, how, or just how bad it would be, but at some point the stock market had to cool off. This past week delivered a cooling of all coolings as bears decided to seize the narrative back from … Read more
The Market Breadth Summary The Stock Market Indices Early in the week, the market looked ready to confirm a deeper bearish phase as market breadth broke down and selling accelerated. I felt validated in my bearish call for the first two days of the week. However, the bears quickly lost the narrative from there. Buyers … Read more