Good Thursday morning all. Yesterday marked the 51st record close in S&P 500 this year and another ATH in Nasdaq, as it holds above the 15,000 plateau. And our internals put up another positive day…that’s 4 in a row, which hasn’t happened in several weeks.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. 1% losses across the board yesterday but we did see an improvement in the internals (most notably in Nasdaq where up/down volume was flat). The markets are in mini-correction mode based primarily on the 3 factors…
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Another poor jobs report (ADP) took the Dow down 323 points yesterday. Like the Obama economy, we should get used to reports like this. Soon, and take this to the bank, they’ll be manipulated to start looking better, with part time…
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Excellent day in the Dow Jones yesterday (+210…we love both the Dow and R2K charts here) but slow summer-like day elsewhere. ATH’s once again in S&P 500 and we’ve now had back-to-back-to-back days with ATH’s in the semis as SMH put up a bit of a furious rally…
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Yesterday may have been a quiet day on the surface, but like ducks on the water it was a much different story below the water line. We’ve just had back to back days with fresh ATH’s in Nasdaq and Q’s (Nasdaq 100), the semis led the way higher (they’ll hit ATH’s soon),
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. As we have covered in previous updates, as bad as J Powells track record is (once his pressers begin the markets immediately start to tank), JP actually scored a win yesterday. When he began speaking the Dow was -309 and Nasdaq -104, but by the close the Dow was -265…
Read MoreGood Friday morning all. Yesterday's trading brought fresh ATH in the S&P 500 with the Dow and Russell 2000 less than 1% from ATH and Nasdaq starting this AM at 1.3% from ATH. And while yesterday's internals were nothing to write home about (meme wars), we continue to like what we see as the semis
Read MoreGood Friday morning. The VRA was proud to be the sole sponsor of Wayne Allyn Roots remarkable interview with President Donald J. Trump. Wayne, a dear friend going back some 18 years and a true American Patriot, sat down with President Trump for an exclusive,
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Breaking news from the ADP jobs report this AM which came in at 978,000 jobs created vs estimate of 650,000. I can tell you that there’s some nervousness around the May jobs report that’ll be out tomorrow morning (8:30 AM EST),
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. This feels as much like a goldilocks market as I can remember. You know the reasons we’re bullish…the reasons we’ve been aggressively bullish for the last 14 months…but its primarily about two issues. These are the most important two issues of any bull or bear market;
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. China’s warnings about “unreasonable commodity price rises” and their latest verbal attacks against crypto’s/Bitcoin resulted in an “everything must go” sell-off yesterday morning. From stocks, bonds, commodities to cryptos,
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Another “must watch” monthly economic report was out yesterday as the April CPI came in hot at 0.8% vs consensus estimate of 0.2%. But let’s be real…like the April jobs report, none of these monthly reports are actually “must watch”.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning and welcome to the first trading week of May. As we have covered in these pages each year, from 2003 on, May to October are the markets worst 6 months of the year with >90% of all stock market gains occurring from November to April.
Read MoreGood Friday morning all. Following a solid intraday reversal higher into the close that sent multiple indexes and sectors to ATH (including SPX, Nasdaq, Housing and Transports) the Dow Jones is giving back 2/3’s of yesterday's gains this AM. Earnings continue to destroy their comps of Q1 2020.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Quite the mid-day reversal yesterday, immediately following the Coinbase IPO. Coinbase, which we will own in the VRA Portfolio at some point soon, debuted by popping to $429/share (priced at $250), giving it a first day market cap of $100 billion,
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Yesterday marked the 3rd straight day of less than great internals with negative across the board in A/D and volume, while the bright spot continued to be new 52 week high/lows at 341 new highs to just 39 new lows.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Reminder that markets are closed tomorrow for Good Friday. First quarter 2021 is now in the books. As Tyler covered on our VRA Podcast yesterday, how remarkable that the Nasdaq and Russell 2000 each had “lightning fast” 10% corrections,
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Market softness continued yesterday, following a solid open with good internals, as mid-day selling pressure took the Dow from +320 to slightly negative at the close. Nasdaq weakness was pervasive throughout the day, taking the index -2% at the close.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. We begin this morning with a tip of the cap to the Fed’s J Powell. Not only did the Fed nail their written FOMC comments (no rate hikes through 2023) but Powell followed it up with a strong presser, rarely going off-script. More of this please.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. It seems the Dow and Nasdaq have decided to have massive moves higher, but on alternating days. On Tuesday, the Nasdaq soared 3.7%, while the Dow lagged. Then yesterday, the Dow ramped 464 points higher (+1.5%) while Nasdaq was (slightly) lower by 4 points.
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