Volatility Index (VIX)

Swing Trading Strategy: Kicking off Earnings… The earnings weren’t good at all from the banks, and while no one really expected them to be, they were even worse than expected. JPM’s EPS came in at $0.78/share despite analysts expecting $2.16/share. However the market was not phased by this at all. The market right now is

Swing Trading Strategy: Best week since 1938… Last week’s shortened trading week capped off the best week for the Dow since 1938. A truly impressive week for the bulls despite a number of wild swings intraday.  You have to be incredibly cautious in this market here. A lot of people are trading full tilt to

Swing Trading Strategy: Jobless Claims Bad, But Fed Trumps All… While people praise the actions of the Fed for their intervention in the economy to provide some stabilization, I have to say, it has certainly kept the selling at bay of late. However, this is such a dangerous move as the Fed is simply printing

Swing Trading Strategy: Big Gaps are dangerous… C’mon, two back to back days of 100 point gaps, and you think we are going to gap and run each time? Sure it isn’t impossible for the market to do that, but the odds of that aren’t strong, and instead of a bullish posture for the market

Swing Trading Strategy: Futures are rocketing… Perhaps it is because New York is seeing a drop in the number of deaths, or maybe it is because Trump said a few optimistic words at a press conference yesterday. Either way, the stock market is attempting one of its biggest rallies ever this morning with a monstrous

Swing Trading Strategy: Choppiness and indecision Yesterday was riddled by reversals and choppiness, as it changed course multiple times throughout the day. While it feels good for the bulls to rally the market 56 points, the breadth is anything but there.  For every 17 advancing stocks, there were 13 declining, and that was with a market

Swing Trading Strategy: Time to retest? You had a massive sell-off yesterday, where SPX dropped 4.4% and 114 points. Not the ideal look for a market that has now sold off two straight days and puts in jeopardy the rally off of last week’s lows. This is where traders have to decide for themselves

Swing Trading Strategy: Cracks emerging in the rally… SPX for a second straight day has been unable to break through the 20-day moving average and, yesterday afternoon started to show some nervous profit takers at the end of the day. Now we have another big sell-off on our hands with the stock market and

Swing Trading Strategy: Three days of chop, make it four? It was a rally that probably had everyone surprised. I wasn’t expecting it that’s for sure, and it managed to close over 3.3% higher. However, nothing has really improved on the technical front and instead we are looking at another potential reversal today as the

Swing Trading Strategy: Another bear flag or building upon last week’s rally? Last week’s rally off of the Monday lows was incredible but Friday’s afternoon sell-off left plenty worried about the new week ahead. Surprisingly another big Sunday futures sell-off has resulted in a rally ever since with price now looking at a respectable