Q1 Wrap Up The 1st quarter saw a return of volatility,ending a 9 quarter win streak. Most asset classes finished lower for the quarter, led by the aggregate bond index. Emerging markets and small caps finished positive. Diversification works over time, that much we do know. However, that doesn’t mean it works every day, month,…
In this video we run through the weekly email newsletter “The Top 5 Charts of the Week” and add a bit of extra comments and context. In this week’s edition we look at the astonishing rise in leverage in the stock market, we then see how institutional investors appear to be “buying the dip” based…
from the Dallas Fed — this post authored by Kelvinder Virdi Global real gross domestic product (GDP) growth decreased from 3.5 percent on a year-over-year basis in third quarter 2017 to 3.4 percent in fourth quarter 2017.[ 1] Risks to the global outlook remain tilted to the downside as trade policy changes and the specter…
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) reports a production total of 34,494 vehicles in Q1. The tally included 24,728 Model S and Model X vehicles, and 9,766 Model 3s. The company says that in the past seven days it produced 2,020 Model S vehicles, lower than its 2.5K target set earlier. “In the next seven days, we expect to…
TSLA Has A Terrible Weekend There are many acronyms to describe the large momentum tech names. One of those is TFAANG. That one includes AMZN and TSLA. While there weren’t any earnings reports during the holiday weekend, there were prominent tweets from Elon Musk and President Trump which affected stocks. Tesla’s CEO jokingly tweeted that…
The charts don’t look negative enough to motivate me to sell, but, then again, I am not feeling the urge to buy this dip. I suspect most people feel the same. Sector Strength Below is my spreadsheet of the major ETFs and their relative strength scores. I believe in owning the leaders, although that belief…
USD/JPY has been in a three-day sell-off driven lower by risk aversion flows, but today the pair has managed to stage a comeback and is closing well above the 106.00 level. The markets appear to have stabilized after yet another wave of Trump rants on twitter and traders will now likely focus on the…
While the S&P 500 futures market occupied a relatively narrow range overnight, now that the US is trading there have been some more big swings intraday. After trading up at the open, stocks lost almost 1% through mid-morning lows. They then rallied more than 1.1% and have since pulled back again. That kind of intraday…
The United States, Mexico, and Canada have made significant advances on reworking the North American Free Trade Agreement and ministers will meet in the coming days to determine the scope to agree on the basics of a deal, Mexico’s economy minister said. This is how MyFXspot.com trades today: EUR/USD Trading strategy: Buy Open: 1.2220 Target:…
Was the March 2009 low the end of a secular bear market and the beginning of a secular bull? At this point, nine years later, the S&P 500 has set a series of inflation-adjusted record highs based on monthly averages of daily closes. Let’s examine the past to broaden our understanding of the range of…
