[video_player type=”embed” style=”1″ dimensions=”640×360″ width=”640″ height=”360″ align=”center” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”20″ ipad_color=”black”][/video_player] Today continued the bullish bounce or recovery higher and you may be surprised to see which automotive stock led the pack today – no, it’s not Tesla (TSLA) for once. Stocks were strong all day with the Small Cap Russell 2000 (IWM) leading the equity futures higher as both Oil and Gold traded lower. Which stocks are leading the way? Find out in tonight’s leading stock scan…

[video_player type=”embed” style=”1″ dimensions=”560×315″ width=”560″ height=”315″ align=”center” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”20″ ipad_color=”black”][/video_player] TSLA surges 8% on stock split plans as a Chinese plant shuts down due to COVID. Quantumscape breaks out as the forever battery company looks to produce a workable solid state battery…someday. RKT, APP, and RL pop on unusual option activity. XRT sees surge in long put activity.

[video_player type=”embed” style=”1″ dimensions=”560×315″ width=”560″ height=”315″ align=”center” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”20″ ipad_color=”black”][/video_player] [vertical_spacing] Center Stage Driving Markets — -Bonds -Commodity volatility -equities to follow Trade ideas and Positioning -financials appear ripe for a short -will apple have a down day… ever? -SKEW made me do it -Xmas in March SPX Expected Move — –last week —  106.19   (expected move) –next week–   88.65   (expected move)

The buyers kept their dominance and pressed the market higher, this time with large-cap stock Nvidia (NVDA) leading the biggest gainers list to new highs. Not to be outdone, Intel (INTC) was the second strongest stock in the SP100 today finishing up 7%. In tonight’s video, we update our key levels and pinpoint where this strength is coming from and what we’re watching as we move toward April 2022…

  Bonds rally back today sending interest rates lower and in turn tanking financial stocks. The rally has so far stalled this week, but there’s still 106 points of movement possible for the week. There should be some exciting opportunities over the next 2 days of trading…

Today saw another advance in the equity futures with another 1% gain at the same time bonds – namely TLT – also fell by 1%. Which specific stocks – or sectors – pushed us to these levels and what are we watching for the rest of the week in this environment? Find out in tonight’s video…

Fed Chairman Powell pointed to the potential need to raise by 50bp and more aggressive quantitative tightening during a Q&A session today. The result was an inversion in the yield curve with 5-year U.S. Treasury yields rising above the 10-year. Unfortunately, the dollar failed to materially strengthen on his comments and commodity prices continued to move higher, with oil up 7%! (XLE, CCJ, MOS, NOG, OXY, MPC, XLU, HYG, DBC)…

Fun with the FOMC–FED- we have liftoff, a .25 point and more to come-Treasury Yield Curve has issues-Who wants to fight the FED? Risks on the Horizon–Volatility contango is back but far from “normal”-Dollar still bid-Oil has a bid back-Inflation is out of control – retail negative implications-Quintessential Rip your face off rally Geopolitics—-Damage already inflicted-War ends sanctions will not dissipate Trade Setups–Gold-Risk reward SP500 following the rally-Premium selling SPX Expected Move —–last week —  144.35   (expected move)–next week– 106.19   (expected move)

With the Federal Reserve announcement behind us, what is the fall-out from the decision and how did markets react? Today’s session was a surprise bounce higher in equities but also in Oil and Gold. In tonight’s video, we pinpoint where the aftermath leaves us and what “edge of the cliff” levels still are in play along with which stocks are in our “strong getting stronger” list today…

Stocks rallied into the FOMC meeting, sold off after the announcement, and then rallied again. Now that the S&P is at the top range of the expected move for the week…What’s next for the markets?