Category: Charts
Laid Low
Georgia crop ratings took a hard hit from Michael, no surprise here. We quantified losses best we could, based on actual historical comparisons. The range of losses in other publications […]
What Happened Last Time We Had 2% Moves?
The last time we had this type of market volatility with daily moves of 2% or more was February 2018. What happened there? Volatility spike, lots of business news “death […]
Protected: [PRIVATE] Stock Markets ‘Easy Money’ Not So Easy Anymore
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7 Years Of Distortion
Cotton Grower magazine ran a story on losses in GA, but gave no numbers. In the same issue, OA Cleveland pegged losses at 300 kb to 400 kb, in line […]
Top Sectors to Consider For the “Best Six Months”
For 52 years the new edition of the Stock Trader’s Almanac has been released in the fourth quarter of the year. And for the past seventeen years we have been preparing Almanac Investor readers […]
The Plunge: Right on Time!
The Plunge: Right on Time! Last week’s market plunge wiped out an estimated $850 billionin wealth in just one day, October 10th. While investor sentiment hit extremely elevated levels in late September, similar […]
Volatility permeates recent history around October options expiration
Since 1994, October’s expiration day tends to be mixed with average losses across the board even though S&P 500 and NASDAQ have advanced more often than not. Expiration week and […]
Protected: [PRIVATE] Grim Reaper Is Back After 10 Year Rally
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Good News, Good Reaction
Overall a good sales and shipments report, with the now normal feature of China rolling sales forward. Old crop sales were 111 krb, with Viet high at 70 krb, and […]
So “Sell in May” Didn’t Work This Year?
Not so fast. The answer is: We don’t know yet, the Worst Six Months (WSM) are not over yet. People forget that Sell in May is NOT the whole seasonality. […]