Pretty Good Little Fight
It’s been 24 years since I moved out of New York City to the calm and quiet of CT. I love hearing nature at night in my pitch black bedroom instead of the horns and trucks driving down the avenues. I stayed in the city last night as I had an early conference for our custodian this morning at the NYSE and I wasn’t really interested in getting up at 4:30am to train in. Well, I forgot how loud the […]
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Date: June 23, 2017
Seasonals Say No, But Bulls Say Yes
The major stock market indices closed last week on decent footing and should be poised for further gains with the Dow and S&P 500 seeing new highs first . Even the recently hit NASDAQ 100 hung in and remains above the line in the sand I drew last week. However, this week is a seasonally weak one as it’s the five days immediately following June option expiration. We’ll see how that plays out as pre-market indications show a higher open. […]
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Date: June 19, 2017
Bulls Still in Charge (as is Amazon!)
The major stock market indices put in a very constructive day on Thursday with stocks opening at their lows for the day and closing in the upper end of the range. The beaten down NASDAQ 100 saw the best behavior as it tries to repair itself from two unexpectedly large and volatile down days over the past month from all-time highs. One clue will be a weekly closing price for this index and the semiconductors near the high for the […]
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Date: June 16, 2017
Stocks Looking Down After Rate Hike
Everything happened as expected on Wednesday. Stocks stayed in a tight range until 2PM. The Fed raised rates. Yellen spoke about reducing the balance sheet. And the bullish Fed trend was significantly muted. Given how stocks closed, there is a very short-term trend which indicates lower prices today and possibly into next week. However, with the stock market set to open lower, the opportunity to take advantage is likely gone. The Dow is now the leading index and that’s not […]
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Date: June 15, 2017
Another Tech Wreck
Between the ECB, UK and Comey, there was lots of news to digest. However, stocks really didn’t seem to care. The ECB did nothing and hinted that the European economy was improving. Comey testified and you couldn’t turn left or right without hearing “expert” commentary from the pundits. As expected, it was much ado about nothing. The big shocker came from the UK where PM Theresa May underestimated her constituency when she called for a general election. Hoping to strengthen […]
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Date: June 9, 2017
NASDAQ 5000. Bubble or is This Time Different?
Almost 15 years to the day after the NASDAQ last closed above 5000, the index finally breached that level again, albeit for only one close, so far. That means that if you invested in the NASDAQ in March 2000, it took you 15 years just to get back to break even, which doesn’t sound like such a great investment. Between then and now, the NASDAQ lost 78% to its October 2002 bottom and rallied 351% to its recent high. That’s […]
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Date: March 17, 2015
Alibaba… No Bubble to Me
With the Fed meeting, press conference and Scotland out of the way, markets turned to Alibaba’s initial public offering (IPO) to close a very busy week last Friday. Looking at possibly a record $20+ billion IPO, the money had to come from somewhere. And judging by tech stocks behavior over the prior week or so, it certainly looked like institutional investors were paring back holdings to pay for Alibaba. The hugely anticipated IPO priced at $68 and promptly opened at […]
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Date: September 23, 2014
