I figured after the CPI “flash crash,” the futures would rally. They did initially, but I didn’t expect the ES to trade down to 3923.75 and drop 120+ points from the day’s high. The train really has rolled off the tracks.  I know people are starting to dabble into buying some beaten-down stocks, but I […]
I figured after the CPI “flash crash,” the futures would rally. They did initially, but I didn’t expect the ES to trade down to 3923.75 and drop 120+ points from the day’s high. The train really has rolled off the tracks.  I know people are starting to dabble into buying some beaten-down stocks, but I […]
Market Review Polaris Trading Group: Taylor 3 Day Cycle  Commentary      Author: David D Dube (PTGDavid) Tuesday’s Session was Cycle Day 3 (CD3): As this day is the official “end of cycle”, the expected action of the “BIG BOYZ” is to complete their selling of long contracts to the “Johnnie-come-late” buyers and to establish […]
The financial futures market went from good to bad Friday with the S&P 500 futures falling falling 1.1% and the Dow and Nasdaq futures falling 1.5% each. With stocks down across the board in Asia and falling in Europe, hundreds of thousands of financial workers across the globe were locked out of their Bloomberg terminals, […]
TODAY’S GAME PLAN:  from the trading desk, this is not research TODAY’S ECONOMIC DATA:  10:00ET Leading Index; 10:15ET Fed’s Waller, Kashkari speak; 11:45ET President Biden speaks; 12:15ET Fed’s Daly speaks HIGHLIGHTS and News:   Microsoft will launch its custom Cobalt 100 chips as a public preview at its Build conference next week GAMESTOP MAY SELL UP TO […]
TODAY’S GAME PLAN:  from the trading desk, this is not research TODAY’S ECONOMIC DATA:  8:30ET Housing Starts, Building Permits, Initial Jobless Claims, New York Fed Services Business Activity, Philadelphia Fed Business Outlook, Import and Export Price Indexes; 9:15ET Industrial Production, Capacity Utilization, Manufacturing (SIC) Production; 10:00ET Fed’s Barr testifies to Senate Committee, Fed’s Barkin on CNBC; […]
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TODAY’S GAME PLAN:  from the trading desk, this is not research TODAY’S ECONOMIC DATA:  8:30ET Empire Manufacturing, CPI*, Retail Sales; 10:00ET Business Inventories, NAHB Housing Market Index, Fed’s Barr testifies before House committee; 12:00ET Fed’s Kashkari speaks; 3:20ET Fed’s Bowman speaks; 4:00ET TIC Flows US APRIL CORE CONSUMER PRICES RISE 0.3% M/M, US APRIL CORE CONSUMER […]
TODAY’S GAME PLAN:  from the trading desk, this is not research TODAY’S ECONOMIC DATA:  8:30ET PPI Final Demand; 9:10ET Fed’s Cook speaks; 10:00ET Fed’s Powell, ECB’s Knot speak *US APRIL PRODUCER PRICES RISE 0.5% M/M; EST. 0.3% China rate decision, Eurozone industrial production, GDP, US CPI on Wednesday HIGHLIGHTS and News:   Apple is preparing to sell […]
TODAY’S GAME PLAN:  from the trading desk, this is not research TODAY’S ECONOMIC DATA:  9:00ET Fed’s Mester and Jefferson speak; 11:00ET: NY Fed 1-Yr Inflation Expectations Among the most critical data for the Fed will be April CPI (Wed.), one of two monthly prints the FOMC will have in hand at the June 11-12 meeting (May […]