[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 …
Snapping A 6-Day Win Streak
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets There was nothing exciting about today’s session other than a brief mid-day climb above the unchanged line, after which the major indexes hit the skids with the Dow and S&P snapping a 6-day winning streak. It’s still too early to determine if today’s action was the end of the current dead-cat bounce, as …
ETF Tracker Newsletter For February 16, 2018
ETF Tracker StatSheet https://theetfbully.com/2018/02/weekly-statsheet-etf-tracker-newsletter-updated-02-15-2018/ COMEBACK WEEK [Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets A solid mid-day rally hit the skids, as news from Special Counsel Mueller’s indictment of 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities, accusing them of interfering with the US elections, flashed on computer screens around the world. The major indexes dove, briefly slipped into the red but …
Equities Pump And US Dollar Dumps
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets The equity bounce continued for the fifth day in a row, as the major indexes started the session in the positive, then dropped below the unchanged line and subsequently surged in a V-shape type recovery without looking back to close at the highs for the day. I took the opportunity during the momentary …
Market Dumps As Volatility Pumps; Buy Signals Remains Intact
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets After last week’s pullback, today’s session had the major indexes hovering slightly below their unchanged lines right after the opening, when suddenly at mid-day the floodgates opened and equities went into freefall mode. Of course, the reason was not that individual investors all of a sudden decided to sell, but the more likely …