This market has been in a downward decline for weeks that started with the Jackson Hole, Wyo., Federal Reserve Symposium, negative U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers, Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) raising interest rates, and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell talking tough. The bears have been winning and basking in the glory. But as … Read more
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) followed through with plans to raise federal funds interest rates by 75 basis points, and the market didn’t like it. After a few wild moves in both directions on Wednesday after the announcement, the downside was chosen and the market ended on the lows. I think it is clear … Read more
This month, it is notable that the monthly squeeze histogram in the S&P 500 (SPY) has moved negative. In addition to that, the SPY has broken two trend lines and a price support area. The trend continues to the downside, and it’s just a matter of what path the SPY will take on its way … Read more
After one of the biggest down days on Tuesday, the market has since held and flagged for the day. Zero follow through to the downside so far. Will Thursday continue down or will there be a surprise upside move? I mention this because the put/call ratio is super high and the SPDR S&P 500 ETF … Read more
The move up in the market last week made sense and I was communicating to the Moxie Indicator™ Mastery subscribers that I wanted to see higher prices in order to short into the pattern. This was because much of the market got very oversold after about a three-week plunge. So we got the bounce, but … Read more
Hey Market Pilot, After a very heavy couple of weeks, the market has found some support and is now trying to figure out what to do next. Based on typical Moxie Indicator™ patterns and rules, if we get a bounce, it would set us up for an Inverse Trampoline on the hourly time frame. So … Read more
Hey Market Pilot, Friday was quite the roller coaster of a day and I was very happy to not have taken any swing trades. But for those of you who day trade, this was an excellent opportunity and I will show you how the Moxie Indicator™ guided you in and out of the big move. … Read more
Hey Market Pilot, As we head into a new month, we are seeing similar patterns set up from recent history in the SPY. Oftentimes, we talk about this pattern in a bullish sense. Since we’re in a bear market, we’re observing a pattern where price bounces toward the daily 50 simple moving average (SMA) and … Read more
Hey Market Pilot, Friday was a massive day for the markets. Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Jerome Powell was no dove during his speech to kick off the day. He referenced history and said the Fed needs to get inflation under control and will keep tightening. Let’s take a look at how the announcement kicked off … Read more
Right now many traders only see “gloom and doom” in the market… And this year has been extremely challenging. But I want to instead focus on where I’m finding opportunities. Because despite what you hear lately, there’s actually a silver lining for active traders. For example, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 9.1% recently and … Read more