I’ve received more than a few emails asking if I’ve turned my blog into a monthly report. Well, I’ve been in New York since my last post. I was going to bring the laptop, but decided I needed a complete rest from the markets. We have a mid-town timeshare just south of Columbus Circle. We are [...]
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So far all predictions for the demise of this powerful stock market rally have been wrong. Certainly we’ll hear of all the successful forecasts after the fact, as we always do. It’s a little more difficult to call a top in real time. Every time the market looks like it is going to finally pull [...]
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Many financial markets continue on what seems to be a never-ending path upward as the dollar continues on its path downward. The chart above shows the daily action of the etfs representing the S&P 500 in the upper sub-graph, and the Nasdaq 100 in the lower. Trends in both are clearly up. Every attempt at [...]
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This stock market rally has been quite persistent. It seems every attempt at a pullback is quickly met with buyers rushing in. There seems to be an urgency in their buying. You can even see it on the intra-day tape. There are few downticks that have any persistence. On the weekly S&P ETF chart above [...]
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Posted in Weekly Comment on Jul 8th, 2007
Here is an image of the weekly S&P ETF. I’m having trouble with the layout so still experimenting with templates and chart size. The charts I posted last week were too wide for some screen resolutions settings. So I’m trying this template to see if it works better. The only comment I can make about [...]
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