Is This Just the Latest Example of Algorithmic Overshoot?
Let’s get real about South Korea’s wild market swings, a new ADR listing, oil’s decline, the DJIA, and what I’m seeing from the S&P 500.
Let’s get real about South Korea’s wild market swings, a new ADR listing, oil’s decline, the DJIA, and what I’m seeing from the S&P 500.
Here are the three things that triggered the selling, what to watch now and my strategy for this difficult market.
The sort of abysmal price action in $MSFT, $AMZN, $GOOGL and $META are EXACTLY the concerns I expressed in my market structure post.
I worry that today’s weakness in the precursor of a market structure event not similar to past disruptions:
The proliferation, popularity and acceptance of leverage products and portfolio concentration in quantitative strategies, margin debt, the options market and leveraged ETFs argue in favor of rising odds of another October 1987 (“Black Monday”) or a 2018 “Volmageddon” (or Vix Bloodbath) event.
Position: None
Stock picking is working as the indexes struggle.
Coke and the IRS, Google flexes its balance sheet, and other headlines are moving stocks this morning.
Let’s scan through the headlines for the stories of the week that speak to our Pro Portfolio holdings.
We closed three positions, began a new one, and added to two others. Plus, we look ahead to the potentially most impactful earnings report next week.
The grocery giant spoke to some key investing themes in its latest comments.
As the president sends shares on the move, we’re revisiting our target price for the foundry name.
Triple witching, Apple to boost prices and other headlines are moving stocks this morning.