[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets Over the weekend, I read a couple of articles outlining the ongoing progress, or rather lack thereof, with the China trade talks, which took on a new dimension during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. We’ve witnessed Trump and Xi go at it for several months now, but VP Pence decided more was …
ETF Tracker Newsletter For November 16, 2018
ETF Tracker StatSheet https://theetfbully.com/2018/11/weekly-statsheet-for-the-etf-tracker-newsletter-updated-through-11-15-2018/ A Down Week Ends On A Positive Note [Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets The major indexes see-sawed throughout the session swinging above and below their respective unchanged lines but closing in the green in the end. The exception being the Nasdaq, which ended up slightly in the red but much improved from earlier levels. …
A Drop And Pop Kind Of Session
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets Equities headed south in early trading, which was the validation confirming yesterday’s “Sell” signal for “broadly diversified domestic equity ETFs.” The markets dumped at first then see-sawed higher in what can be considered a drop, pop, drop and pop kind of session, during which all 3 major indexes ended in the green for …
A Hopeful Opening Bounce Dies
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets For a while it looked like the opening bounce had some starch in it, but that hope dissipated in the hurry, when a mid-day dive gave the bears the upper hand and south went with the Dow being down -250 points at one time. A late afternoon levitation gave the bulls some hope …
Treading Water; Oil Gets Bashed
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets Despite several attempts to pull the major markets out of yesterday’s hole, the efforts failed with the Dow and S&P 500 sinking moderately while the Nasdaq ended the session unchanged. Not helping matters was the fact that oil prices tumbled -8.11% and ended up barely hanging on to the 55-handle after having now …
Surrendering Last Week’s Gains
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets Friday’s market weakness continued through today with the major indexes getting spanked and surrendering just about all last week’s gains, which makes Wednesday’s robust bounce suspicious in terms of resumption of the bullish trend. At least for right now, it appears to have been a giant head fake, just enough to generate a …