Market Snapshot – Monday 9.30.19

Markets kicked off the week with all tree indexes–the DJIA, S&P 500, and Nasdaq–rallying slightly below or above 0.6%. The Dow ended the day up 152.94 points, the S&P logging in gains of 20.95, and the Nasdaq jumping higher than the previous two at...

Mitigating Automated System Risk Through System Diversification

Investors new to the automated trading system space often carry with them certain ideas–principles, assumptions, and habits–that might have served them well in the equities world. Many of these carry-over ideas apply, given a few tweaks, but there are also...

Market Shorts 9.23.19

Stock market’s eerie parallels to September 2007 should raise recession fears  Source: Marketwatch “Since last year real GDP growth in the U.S. has been slowing. The chair of the Federal Reserve has been signaling that while growth is slowing, there is no...

Swing Trading: Short-Term Breakout Points for Sector ETFs

Where are the breakouts likely to happen–either up or down–and where are the closest price targets? The breakout points (swing levels) aim to provide direction-neutral guidance for either scenario.    The levels are also ultra short-term, meaning that...