Sloppy Week On Wall Street Stocks snapped a three week losing streak and rallied after another volatile week on Wall Street. On Monday, stocks rallied 200 points only to give it back and fall 200 points on Tuesday. The market was up and down on Wednesday before falling hard early Thursday morning and breaking key levels…
Mr. Market Breaks Support and Gets Weaker The bears emerged victorious after another ugly week on Wall Street. A closer look beneath the surface showed a lot of damage occurred. In last week’s report, we mentioned that the tape was split and we were seeing a few important areas begin to roll over. Well, many of those…
Split Tape Returns As Bulls Defend Support The market, once again, is very split. Gold and a few other commodity stocks (Steel, Energy, etc) are acting very well while many other areas of the market are rolling over or remain very weak (Semiconductors $SMH, Retail XRT, Biotechs IBB, etc). We have now entered the beloved…
Sellers Getting Stronger After Tepid Economic & Earnings Data Once again, sellers are showing up, after a 2.5 month hiatus, and putting pressure on several key areas of the market. Short-term, the major indices rallied right into major resistance (prior chart highs) and are now pulling as the pause to digest the strong rally from…
Stocks Stall Below Major Resistance As Earnings Season Begins Stocks opened the week higher but stalled mid-week and closed mixed to lower after sellers showed up in the latter half of the week. Several important areas of the market, that had been leading for months, are now in “pullback mode” as we enter the heart of earnings season….
Stocks Sit Below Major Resistance As Earnings Season Begins Stocks rallied last week as the bulls sent the major indices above important areas of resistance and within striking distance of fresh record highs. Most of the big financials rallied last week after reporting crummy numbers. This reinforces our point about focusing on the reaction, not the actual…
Stocks End Week Lower Ahead of Earnings Stocks ended lower for the first full week of the new quarter and before earnings season begins in earnest. The short term action remains sloppy (to put it nicely) and continues to frustrate both the bulls and the bears. Eventually, clean trends will emerge, but for now, patience is paramount….
Stocks End Historic Quarter Stocks remain very strong as the bulls continue to defend the short term 10 day-moving-average line for the major indices. The big news last week and last quarter is that easy money from global central banks is here to stay. For now, stocks continue to worship easy money and until that…
– Want Sarhan Capital To Manage Your Portfolio? – Stocks Finally Pullback- Will It Last? Finally, the long awaited pull back arrived on Wall Street as the major indices pulled back and snapped a very strong 5-week win streak. The pullback began when a slew of commodities started falling as the US dollar rallied. Remember, commodity…
– Want Sarhan Capital To Manage Your Portfolio? – Easy Money Reigns Supreme…For Now Once again, easy money, from the Fed and other central banks, continues to send stocks higher and distort the playing field. Every major central bank in the world is back in easy money mode (including the U.S. Fed). The easy money trade…