Futures Trading Education
U.S. Indices saw considerable downside (SPX -2.95%, NDX -3.6%, DJIA -2.58%, RUT -4.4%) as did Treasuries, while the Dollar surged in the wake of a hawkish FOMC. Highlighting the extent of the moves, the S&P 500 noticed its largest post-Fed move since March 2020....
Futures Trading Education
It was a risk-off session on Tuesday with underperformance in the Russell 2000 and Dow versus the S&P and NASDAQ 100. Sectors were predominantly lower, led by losses in Industrials, Energy and Financials while Consumer Discretionary, Consumer Staples and...
Futures Trading Education
U.S. Equity Markets closed mixed on Monday with notable outperformance in the NASDAQ 100 amid further strength in Broadcom (AVGO) and Micron (MU) supporting the move. However, both the Dow and Russell 200 again closed lower with the Dow now lower for nine consecutive...
Futures Trading Education
U.S. Equity Markets closed mixed on Friday with notable outperformance in the NASDAQ 100 as tech was supported by a strong earnings report from Broadcom (AVGO), seeing the stock rally 24% and supporting the sector. Consumer Discretionary also performed well thanks to...
Futures Trading Education
U.S. Indices (S&P +0.8%, NASSAQ 100 +1.9% and RUSSELL 2000 +0.5%) saw broad-based gains on Wednesday with Communications, Consumer Discretionary, and Technology the sectorial outperformers and the former once again supported by Alphabet (GOOG) (+5.5%) strength....
Futures Trading Education
The U.S. Dollar saw slight gains on Tuesday, albeit in pretty thin newsflow as participants await the pivotal US CPI report on Wednesday. In FX, Sterling and the Canadian Dollar were the relative G10 outperformers, while Antipodeans lagged and weighed on by the dovish...
Futures Trading Education
U.S. Equity Markets Stocks ended Monday lower on all major Indices, with downside most notably in the NDX (-0.8%) as semiconductor weakness weighed on the tech-heavy index, due to China’s regulators opening an investigation into NVIDIA (NVDA, -2.6%) over a...
Futures Trading Education
U.S. Equity Markets Stocks closed mostly firmer on Friday with both the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 notching their third consecutive positive week and rising to fresh records following the November US jobs report, which keeps the Fed on course to cut at the December...
Futures Trading Education
U.S. Equity Markets Stocks closed positive on Wednesday with outperformance in the NASDAQ 100 while the Russell 2000 again underperformed. The Nasdaq was supported by gains in Tech, Consumer Discretionary and Communication names, the outperforming sectors, while...
Futures Trading Education
U.S. Equity Futures saw pressure in the US morning while T-notes caught a bid after South Korean President Yoon implemented martial law to clear out pro-North Korean elements. The move in stocks had started to pare and once it was clear the law would likely be...
Futures Trading Education
The U.S. Dollar was strong to start the week, although pared some of its notable strength after dovish remarks from Fed’s Waller who noted he leans towards a December cut, which sparked modest upside in stocks/Treasuries and increased money market probabilities...
Futures Trading Education
U.S. Equity Markets gained for the second consecutive trading session with both the Dow and S&P closing at new all-time highs. However the market did not close at their intra-day highs as the Dow fell 150 points off it’s 45070 high in the last 15 minutes of a...
Futures Trading Education
Stocks were primarily sold on Wednesday heading into the Thanksgiving holiday and on the last full trading day of month-end. There was notable underperformance in the NASDAQ after a slew of tech/software earnings stumbled after earnings (DELL, HPQ, ADSK, CRWD, WDAY)....
Futures Trading Education
Price action in stocks was mixed, with large caps outperforming, driven by strength in Communications and particularly Utilities, while Materials and Energy lagged. Meanwhile, small caps, RUT -0.8%, were hurt by a higher US yield environment in response to resumed...
Recent Comments