[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets The futures markets looked downright ugly last night with Dow being down over 400 points, as the fallout from Wall Street-friendly Gary Cohn’s resignation made headlines around the world. The weakness spread into today’s session early on, but by mid-day a slow and steady crawl back materialized with the Nasdaq gaining, the Dow …
Markets Resemble A Bucking Bronco
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets The S&P 500 chart clearly demonstrates the kind of trading session we saw today with wild swings in the averages, below and above their respective trend lines, resembling a bucking bronco. In the end, the bulls notched a victory and scored modest gains. There were only two news items which created this wild …
Snapping The Losing Streak
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets After last week’s drubbing, and an early morning pullback, the major indexes managed a broad-based bounce back with Wall Street traders looking past the trade war rhetoric by focusing on economic data and hope that the sell-off was overdone. Even political uncertainty in Italian elections, where a populist anti-euro party made a better-than-expected …
ETF Tracker Newsletter For March 2, 2018
ETF Tracker StatSheet https://theetfbully.com/2018/03/weekly-statsheet-etf-tracker-newsletter-updated-03-01-2018/ SQUEEZING THE SHORTS SAVES THE DAY [Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets The session started out with another downside hit, but ended with a slow but steady crawl higher and above the unchanged line with only the Dow lagging to register its 4th day in a row closing in the red. The culprit, accounting for …
Trifecta Of Events Sends Markets Into Tailspin
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets For the third day in a row, the major indexes got spanked again notching their worst decline in some three weeks as a trifecta of events combined to give the bears the upper hand. First, there was Fed chair Powell, who has left the markets guessing how he feels about inflationary pressures by …
Stocks Have That Sinking Feeling…Worst Month In Two Years
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets Today, it was economic data points that caused increased market volatility and sent the major indexes into a tailspin closing at the lows of the day. We started the session on a positive note, then bounced around the unchanged line for a while and finally accelerated to the downside with the S&P and …