Archive for the ‘Morning Briefing’ Category
Squawk Morning Briefing: More News Coming
Today might be a light news day, but the back half of the week has a number of important reports scheduled, the most important being GDP and the BLS report. Those both have the potential for significant market impact but, as always, will be filtered by the mood of traders and we believe that […]
Squawk Morning Briefing: Is Santa on His Way?
We’re now into December, the season of the Santa Claus Rally, yet the market is already stretched and near all-time highs. So once again we are left to wonder if seasonal patterns will win out or if the market is finally prepared for a pullback. Today’s videos update how we’re looking at the […]
Squawk Morning Briefing: The Start of Something?
In the grand scheme of things, Tuesday’s late day sell off wasn’t terribly large — less than 6 points in the SPX. But it was dramatic compared to the grind higher during the day and it comes from a spot where the move up can reasonably seen as a complete move. That has […]
Squawk Morning Briefing: Watching Closely
We know what they market needs to do to show us that a turn down has begun and there are signs that we might be close to seeing that turn, so it is a good time to be paying attention. However, until it actually generates one of the signals identified in our videos, we […]
Squawk Morning Briefing: Thanksgiving Week
Thanksgiving week has had some interesting trading has been interesting in the past few years. U. S. equities appear to have some more room to the upside which may fit with the historically bullish bias of the holiday. But how much upside is left and whether it will last the week is still […]
Squawk Morning Briefing: How Closely Are You Watching?
In many markets we are watching very closely for for signs that potentially tradeable signals are coming. That doesn’t mean they are coming today or tomorrow, but they could. In fact, it doesn’t mean they are coming at all. Nevertheless, if there was a time to be watching closely to see, then […]
Squawk Morning Briefing: Decision Area Right Here
Yesterday morning we wrote again about the nature of 4th waves to scare traders. If this remains merely a 4th wave down from the highs then Wednesday’s reaction to the FOMC minutes did a very good job acting scary. It went modestly below the support levels we would expect to hold. Rebounding […]
Squawk Morning Briefing: Enough with The Halloween Fright
Three weeks after Halloween the market still trying to scare traders. Two weeks ago as U. S. equities were trading down we talked about how fourth waves often are opportunities for the market to scare us into believing that a move is over prematurely. In doing so, they often move a little beyond […]
Squawk Morning Briefing: One Video for All
Kevin is having Internet troubles today so David is filling in. To accommodate this all the markets we look at are covered in a single video, although at the moment U. S. equities seems to be the biggest question mark. Monday’s late-day sell off was dramatic and we look at the question of […]
Squawk Morning Briefing: Cracks Under The Surface
Markets remain overbought, and the rallies to continued new all-time highs are now coming on rather weak breadth. Generally these are technical warning signs. Nevertheless, the move to the upside doesn’t appear complete from an Elliott wave perspective. So we will allow for pullbacks, which could come at any time, but unless […]