Regular trading sessions for stocks and options is 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST, however, there are some exceptions on certain options. But first, let’s dig into what options are and how they work. For a deeper dive into options, you can also check out our Options Trading Guide. Intro Retail traders and institutional […]
US stocks are climbing a wall of worry, yet again. Even amidst the most consequential global crisis in decades in the Russia-Ukraine war, stocks are still rising, even to the point of being at pre-invasion levels after this week’s price action. At the technical level, you couldn’t tell that the entire global economy is being […]
In the last ten or so years, the US stock market has been unrepentant in always ripping higher when we think the bear market is just around the corner. Even a massive pandemic in which policymakers responded to with global lockdowns couldn’t keep stocks down for more than a month or so. One of the […]
The March 2022 Federal Reserve meeting represents a massive shift in the Fed’s approach to monetary policy and inflation. For several months, Jay Powell has been flirting with hawkishness, but it’s been all talk. He’d say what everyone wants to hear but refuse to raise rates or taper the Fed’s balance sheet. Market participants have […]
The Russia and Ukraine crisis have created countless second and third-order effects in markets that it’s dizzying. Last week, we saw the nickel market come to a complete halt and shut its doors for over a week in response to a violent short squeeze. In short, Russia is the world’s third largest nickel producer and […]
It was a very eventful week. We can’t possibly get to everything and still keep things brief. Keep in mind the Stalin quote – “there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” when trading these markets. The Russia/Ukraine war is still going strong with the Russian troops just nine miles […]
A stock market or a stock exchange is a physical place or digital platform where day traders and other types of investors buy or sell stocks or shares of publicly listed companies. The Frankfurt Stock Exchange, founded in the late sixteenth century, is the world’s oldest stock market. A stock or a share represents […]
It was another week with a VIX above 30, whipsaw price action in the US indexes and relentless bullishness in crude oil. This is all of course a direct result of the uncertainty created by the volatile situation in Ukraine. Before we move onto the situation in Ukraine, let’s take a look at what markets […]
Market internals are indexes that serve to provide additional context beyond price about how the broad stock market is performing. or example, the most popular market internal is the Advance-Decline Index, which is a measure of the net number of stocks that went up today (number of advancing stocks – number of declining stocks […]
Energy, after several years of underperformance and overall decreased mainstream relevance in the financial markets, is making a big return. And following the price action driven by the Russia/Ukraine conflict, the sentiment around it seems to have gotten considerably more bullish. And the ETF flows into the primary crude oil ETF (USO) confirm this: […]
