It'll Do till the Mess Gets Here

21Apr10:53 amEST

Essential (Unfinished) Business

Further crude oil weakness into the June contract seems at odds with the likes of XOM flashing green and the XOP ETF (which houses exploration firms) green once again and actually right near multi-week highs. While oil is expectedly garnering plenty of headlines this morning and may be tempting on several levels, be it pressing the short side...

20Apr4:50 pmEST

Stock Market Recap 04/20/20 {Video}

The following video is a brief, condensed version of the Stock Market Recap which I present each evening to members of Market Chess Subscription Services. In the longer version, I offer tons of actionable trade ideas, educational content, and in-depth objective analysis across all markets. If you enjoy my videos and blog posts, then please...

20Apr11:26 amEST

Different Styles But a Common Theme

Tech stocks in the Nasdaq, especially the heavyweights housed in the QQQ ETF, are back at it again this morning staving off any hope for a bloodbath by bears after a soft open. Beyond the usual suspects like AMZN NFLX SPCE pushing higher yet, we have various biotech names actively leading the party. Some virus-related names like INO OPK are...

18Apr10:35 amEST

Prior Extreme Market Cycles 04/18/20 {Video}

On this Saturday morning, we take a look at prior, relevant (to the current pandemic and crash from all-time highs in March, plus the subsequent squeeze/rally) market cycles which featured historically extreme prices moves and headlines. We then relate those historical markets and the aftermath to the current one. Although history does...

17Apr11:44 amEST

Take the Long View on DraftKings

Earlier this week in Variety a headline read: "DraftKings Cleared to Go Public After Merger With Harry Sloan’s Diamond Eagle." Sports betting giant DraftKings has been cleared to become a public company following approval of a merger with SBTech and Diamond Eagle Acquisition, the public acquisition vehicle headed by industry veterans Harry...

16Apr3:06 pmEST

Fade the Infrastructure Mirage

We are in the midst of an economic desert right now, wandering around and seeing various mirages in the form of hope for an immediate recovery. Bulls can point to the large cap tech names as their bread and butter, although as we discussed earlier today there are too many glaringly weak, important sectors which are not nearly as sanguine,...

16Apr11:41 amEST

You Want a Spread? I'll Give You a Spread

Bifurcation / ˌbīfərˈkāSHən / noun : The division of something into two branches or parts. A clearly bifurcated market is taking hold this morning in far more of a pronounced way than we have seen of late. The persistent strength in the QQQ, ETF for the top-100 stocks in the Nasdaq Composite, be it AMZN NFLX NVDA TSLA, among others,...

15Apr4:44 pmEST

Stock Market Recap 04/15/20 {Video}

The following video is a brief, condensed version of the Stock Market Recap which I present each evening to members of Market Chess Subscription Services. In the longer version, I offer tons of actionable trade ideas, educational content, and in-depth objective analysis across all markets. If you enjoy my videos and blog posts, then please...

15Apr11:26 amEST

Masks Covering a Fierce Rivalry

You might be wondering just how much longer we can see trading sessions where the premier names in the Nasdaq, notably Amazon, can exude such impressive relative and absolute strength even as small caps, banks, energy, insurers, REITs, among other weak parts of the market, can keep suffering bloody selloffs. In early 2008, however, many bears...

14Apr11:35 amEST

It'll Do till the Mess Gets Here

Another surge in the major market averages is leaving many market players rather dumbfounded as to how a global economic shutdown for this amount of time can inspire equities to keep rallying in this manner. Naturally, The Fed and the actions of the federal government will be seen as obvious reasons insofar as their supporting of liquidity and...