With the winter storm warning, big cap tech earnings and the FOMC meeting next week, the initial Friday surge in stock indexes "died out". The stock indexes remain sloppy and difficult to trade. The metals continue to go parabolic and also difficult to trade. The metals have a less liquid order book that would require very active and constant monitoring for the duration of strategies you are trading (up to 23 hours per day) if you did actively trade it with algorithms. The market is in a...

The intra-day price action in January for the stock indexes has been mostly sloppy. Through yesterday's trade we see the Nasdaq 100 index $NDX.X, up 268.5 points up on the year, while down -332.75 points during the day session with the overnight session gains +601.25. Can the stock indexes continue to go up overall while the net gains intra-day are down? In markets, anything is possible, but realistically this divergence should correct itself with the day session trend turning higher, or the...

The news driven markets were back on in full force in Wednesday's trade. The stock indexes surged at the open, retraced nearly 100% of the move, surged again in the afternoon to new highs on the day, followed by an approximate 38.2% Fibonacci Retracement at the end of the day before moving higher into the close and into the overnight session. The hypothetical trading system signals for 01-21-2026 are: Diversified Portfolio 57 (NQ Only) = +$70 Stock Index Portfolio 37 = +$870 Stock Index...