What a difference a day or less makes under the current market conditions. The slide in the S&P 500 index futures in premarket trading breached last week’s low by a…
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Investors cannot say that the S&P 500 index has not been giving them opportunities to sell into strength, instead of into weakness. The index offered up two chances to lighten…
Closing in the red by 55.75 handles at 4201.50 makes it a bad day. What makes it a really bad day is that at one point in premarket trading, the…
If the S&P 500 index futures are going to make a sustained move higher, it is going to have become less volatile first. Thursday was a small step in that…
The unpredictable price action during the rollover period in the S&P 500 index futures continued in a big way. Whereas the index was looking into the abyss and intent on…
In one of the most volatile sessions since March 2020, the bears prevailed in a big way. A midday pump turned into a late-afternoon dump. After rallying 136 handles off…
Once again, investors were enticed into thinking that there could be a quick resolution to the war in Ukraine, and the timing made fools out of almost everyone. Following a…
For all the headline-driven volatile trading action this week, the S&P 500 index futures have found a trading range, albeit a large one. Excluding the high for low for the…
Back to the headline-driven market, big time. The initial headline around 8:45 AM EST, that the US was talking with Iran about increasing its oil production, catapulted the S&P 500…
For one session, the S&P 500 index futures were not totally prisoner to the headlines coming out of the Russia/Ukraine crisis. Instead, Federal Reserve Chair, Jerome Powell, during his testimony…
