Rally or rotation? I vote for rotation
In the last week Technology stocks, and chip stocks in particular, have staged a very impressive rally off of a really low base. Nvidia (NVDA), for example, is up 17.43% in the week that ended on July 21. That still leaves the stock down 39.43% for the year. Advanced...
Apple is Pick #5 for my Special Report: It’s a Market Melt Up!! on JubakAM.Com. (And for my Jubak Picks and Volatility portfolios tomorrow)
It was sure hard to see a market melt up today, November 22. The Standard & Poor’s 500 was down 0.32% and the NASDAQ Composite fell 1.26%. Market leaders in the melt up rally like Applied Materials (AMAT) and Microsoft (MSFT) were down 1.65% and 0.96%,...
I’m looking for a test of Friday’s rotation into tech stocks
This week I expect a test of the Friday’s rotation into technology stocks and away from anything that depends on economies remaining relatively free of Pandemic restrictions. On Friday, the winners were technology shares–Apple, Amazon, Tesla, Nvidia, for...
Watch my new YouTube video “Don’t panic: 3 Picks for This Rotation”
I’m starting up my videos on JubakAM.com again–this time using YouTube as a platform. The twenty-second YouTube video “Don’t Panic: 3 Picks for this rotation” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my...
Rotation turns to general selling
At 11:07 a.m. today the Standard & Poor’s 500 was up 0.80%. At the close it was down 0.55%. Same picture for the small cap Russell 2000 index. Up 1.65% at 10:54 a.m. New York time. Down 2.26% at the close. What looked like one of the rotation markets...
Stocks driving you crazy yet? In massive turnaround, NASDAQ climbs 3.69% today after 2.41% tumble yesterday
Technology stocks, so pummeled yesterday, roared back today. The NASDAQ Composite gained 3.69% on the day. The NASDSQ 100 with its huge waiting to BIG TECH closed up 4.03%. After yesterday, a day when the recent rotation into value, cyclical, and vaccine recovery...
The rotation gets extreme–Dow hits record intraday high while NASDAQ Composite falls into a correction
Two indexes will tell you what you need to know about today’s stock market action. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, driven by cyclicals, vaccine recovery stocks, and consumer stocks rose to an intraday record high. After a slight retreat at the end of the...
As the day wore on, markets began to see near-term economic damage from the coronavirus as out weighing mid-term hope from vaccines
At 1 p.m. today, November 18, the Standard & Poor’s 500 was up 0.05% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was ahead 0.06%. Supporting even these meagre gains was positive news from Pfizer (PFE) that it had concluded trials of its coronavirus vaccine and...
What a difference a day makes for tech stocks
Today, technology stocks that took it in the neck yesterday bounced back strongly. The Standard & Poor’s 500 was up 0.77% today, November 11, but the NASDAQ rose 2.01% and the NASDAQ 100 climbed 2.31%. The Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK), down 1.86%...
Stock market rethinks its initial enthusiasm for Fed outlook
At 2:30 p.m. New York time, about the time the Federal Reserve issued its press statement on today’s meeting of the Fed’s interest rate setting body the Open Market Committee and about the time when Fed chair Jerome Powell issued his comments on the...
Stocks try another rotation again today–I’m not sure this one will stick with employment claims and August jobs report still due this week
At the close today, the Standard & Poor’s 500 was up another 1.54%. Putting this question at the top of many investors’ and traders’ minds: Is there any way to participate in this blow out rally without real adding an unacceptable amount of...
Adding West Pharmaceutical Services to Jubak Picks Portfolio on rotation back to momentum winners
What a difference 72 hours can make. Just a few days ago I was looking to find consumer/cyclical/”re-opening dependent” shares as the stock market looked to be rotating away from recent technology and momentum leaders and toward beaten down shares that...
Back to tech: For a day (at least) rotation is over
Today, August 12, the rotation out of tech winners and into beaten-up consumer and industrial stocks is over. As of the close today. the Standard & Poor’s 500 was up 1.40% but the NASDAQ Composite was ahead 2.13%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was higher...
Stocks test rotation again today
This is a pattern that I’m looking for in the U.S. stock market right now. (Notice, please the “a.” It’s not the only pattern worth watching at the moment.) The next stage in this upward trending market may not be a reversal of the general...
Lots of sloshing but no real direction
It’s pretty clear that no one wants to exit this market. The indexes aren’t going much of anywhere–the Standard & Poor’s 500 was off just 0.05% at the close today–even as some sectors, such as energy in the early part of this week,...Jim’s Daily Email Alerts:
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