SPY Last week, I wrote the following: “It’s possible the past two months have churned and chopped enough weak hands out of the market… And boy, the market sure loves to rip higher with fewer participants on board.” Turns out that’s what happened. AAPL is up 9 days in a row and is already […]
We’re coming off a huge ripper of a market after the Fed raised rates by 25 basis points… And honestly, I would’ve been OK with a 50-point jump. You know — just rip the bandaid off and get it over with. After all, Jerome Powell already said they might have to do a 50-point hike […]
SPY We can call this a bear market rally for now. For this to have legs, we need to know the nature of the pullback. Plus, we have to see whether these prices can be accepted. Simply put: We don’t have enough information yet. I’m aware that after this kind of move, every financial […]
At Precision Volume Alerts, one of our favorite tools for spotting key market levels is the Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP). VWAP looks at how a particular stock or other security has traded over a day. It then uses the day’s volume to tell us the average price traded. Essentially, you add up the total […]
The “trickle-down” effect is a very real thing in the markets — especially when it comes to volatility. Take a “risk-parity” fund, for example. These firms hold a collection of equities and bonds and will rebalance every so often to keep the allocations about the same. And yet, there are some instances (like right now […]
With the kickoff of the largest European war in decades… It seems everyone’s become an armchair expert on the conflict. These are the same experts who have claimed to be experts on evolving pandemics, inflation, and supply chains… and they don’t exactly have the best track record. Heck, I have some very well-connected friends plugged […]
Before we get into the markets, we need some context for what’s going on right now. The Federal Reserve’s poor signaling has led to interest rate volatility, and that drove equity volatility as we headed into December. Things… well… accelerated recently with the European conflict and the massive spike in commodity prices. This is an […]
Trading in a crisis can feel a little tricky. News flows fast… fake news flows faster. (To be fair, there’s always a crisis in the markets — it’s just that some crises are bigger than others.) With the invasion of Ukraine last week, the inflationary concerns we’ve been discussing for months have started to accelerate. […]
