Heavy Volatility Lurking for Remainder of the Week

It's all about the expected move for the week. Don reviews indices and key sectors so you know what to expect in the next 2 days of trading.

Support Bounce in Play but Will it Last?

Volatility picked up big time last week with the price sell-off but today's action continued the bounce off 2983 Gravity. Is this it? And which stocks made new all-time highs today? It's the typical list of strong stocks plus a couple surprises. In tonight's video, we check on financials (XLF), strong tech stocks (AAPL and…

Wild Range Indicative of a Wild Market?

The S&P had a 144 point range today while the expected move for the week is 125. XLF and technology participating in the rally. The S&P rallied and closed above the volatility box. However, the XLF is still below the crucial 26.50 level and volatility hasn't backed off. We are still in a Vomma Zone!…

Feeling the Wrath of Volatility

Outliers leading to more outlier events! Weekly percentage Moves SPX Expected Move--last week-- 78.38 (expected move)--next week-- 125.77 VVIX was the preeminent indicator, yep we warned you Back in the Hurt Locker! aka: The Volaility Box Bonds UP, market tanked! market musical chairs, music stopped... you find a seat? Tech will be the epicenter of…

Markets Snap Back Hard to Gravity

Don made a specific point to highlight the quiet yet aggressive buying activity in bonds - along with the VIX Volatility Index - that showed us that something big was moving behind the scenes.  Today, we realize now what that was.  Stocks across the board - in fact all 500 S&P 500 index components -…

Are You Living on the Bullish Edge?

For the second day in a row money is rotating out of financials into big technology.  The market seems to be posed for a big move in either direction.  Be ready for some wild trading activity during the remainder of this week.

The Incredibly Unusual Thing about Today

You're not alone if you felt confused about today's trading activity and the divergence between the majority of negative stocks and the continued upward action of the indexes, especially the NASDAQ.  That's in large part to market cap leaders such as Apple (AAPL), and Amazon (AMZN) that made new all-time highs with the /NQ, but…

The Bullish Point of No Return?

Financials lead the way as the XLF level closes above the crucial 26.50 level.  BA helps lift the Dow higher and risk on trades in the energy sector.  Here's the key stocks to watch this week...

Game Changer or Short of a Lifetime in the Markets?

Employment Situation-- missed the broad-side of a barn-- dragging out instability within employment-- will the FED will tapper the asset purchases? Anything but normal…--SPX smashes the weekly Expected Move SPX Expected Move--last week-- 78.31 (expected)--next week-- 78.38 Bonds-- we are back baby! -- bonds crushed and the range is broken-- rate are a flyin' Outsized…

Airline Stocks Take Flight Today

In case you missed it, some of the strongest stocks in the SP500 today weren't financials, but airline stocks.  That's in large part because these same airline stocks have lost so much value over the last month.  However today was the day aggressive call spreads and bullish 'fade' or reversal duration positions went in the…