Market Analysis for Trading on 5/15/2014

Mish Schneider | May 14, 2014

Bears and bulls frustrated-perhaps the Wolves of Wall Street will fare better tonight for the full moon!

Back to an unconfirmed warning phase in NASDAQ. The small caps continue their distress. The 200 DMA may not mean as much as …


Market Analysis for Trading on 5/14/2014

Mish Schneider | May 13, 2014

Like counting sheep-here are the thoughts in my head each night:

After an initial scare, most major bull markets in U.S. equities also occurred during periods of rising interest rates, which of course hasn’t really happened yet, (market seems to …


Market Analysis for Trading on 5/13/2014

Mish Schneider | May 12, 2014

“Markets are not stable at all-time closing highs. Assumption-something big is coming. No sell in May, go away kind of event either.” From this weekend.

“Rising interest rates means the cost of money and credit is going up, and if …


Market Analysis for Trading on 5/12/2014

Mish Schneider | May 11, 2014

Dow Average Closes out a super choppy week at all-time high of 16,583.34. Interest Rates and US dollar firm. No significant phase changes in the 4 indices leaving a lot of weary traders to boot!

I have waited a long …


Market Analysis for Trading on 5/9/2014

Mish Schneider | May 8, 2014

“Sell the mighty or buy the meek? Buy the strong and sell the weak? Only the most experienced and flexible traders should know what to do now.”

I wrote that last night, but that is not fair since even the …


Market Analysis for Trading on 5/8/2014

Mish Schneider | May 7, 2014

As if the divergence could not get any more spectacular on every level-here’s the breakdown:

S&P 500-Bullish Phase Closed Green

Dow-Bullish Phase Closed Green

NASDAQ-Strong Warning Phase Closed Red

Russell 2000-Distribution Phase-Closed Red

3 phases among the 4 indices!

What …


Market Analysis for Trading on 5/7/2014

Mish Schneider | May 6, 2014

When we used to do a lot of sailing, before we moved to the high desert, we would look for white caps in the water as a sign to put on those life preservers and navigate for calmer seas.

Most …


Market Analysis for Trading on 5/6/2014

Mish Schneider | May 5, 2014

With our temporary New York apartment setup, we see the mouth of all the waterways that converge in lower Manhattan before the water continues its journey to the west side up the Hudson River.

The currents change directions and run …


Market Analysis for Trading on 5/5/2014

Mish Schneider | May 4, 2014

As you all well know by now, I have been super focused on interest rates. Last Thursday I wrote that a possible scenario would be to see double or triple the average daily volume on a breakout to new highs …


Market Analysis for Trading on 5/2/2014

Mish Schneider | May 1, 2014

From Headlines to Flatlines. Think I need to say more? Here is my last tweet on the public stream:

At least if we had inside days setting up that would be somewhat interesting; instead we have an oxymoron-lifeless noise.

Here …