Category: Morning Update

I know there is a LOT of speculation about what happens in Europe with no gas flows from Russia, but the European and British governments are stepping in, between electric and gas companies and citizens to use the power of

China and Russia agree to buy / Sell Russian Gas with Ruble and Yuan.   Germany has filled gas/oil storage for the winter in spite of Russia closing North Stream for an indefinite period.  Russia and Ukraine fighting in and

Random Data from the Macro Madness of MidYearCrisis2022: –  Last week Lumber took a nose dive.  This means cost of new builds will drop, pressuring housing prices down another leg.  Lumber often acts as a signal for equities; when lumber

As long as SPX keeps moving within a 1 Standard Deviation from Open to Close (30-40 points), the VIX will have difficulty rising, allowing for a grind up to resistance areas with high open interest.   Today we had some

Right now if you look at VIX and you look at VVIX they’re lower than they were in Jan 2020, and in part they’re so low because commodities during Q1 and some of Q2 were really outperforming and helping mitigate

Good Morning Friends, Yesterday we had a huge gap down and then we gave it all back (and now we’ve given back all the gains from the drop again in the overnight).  So I know a lot of you might

Okay, those CPI numbers are coming in a few minutes, so let’s see how futures and commodities respond. Okay, they’re hotter than expected 1.3%! 9.1% was shocking. Someone ‘leaked’ Spain’s numbers yesterday as the US Numbers, 10% and I think

Good Mornings Friends, PLEASE look at the downgrading going on. Downgrades are coming in hot and heavy, 50 downgrades JUST today. And I’m expecting more downgrades and further downgrades to the downgrades. Analysts FINALLY waking UP! Volatility increases if SPX

Good Morning Friends. If you want to know if or when we reach a recession forget the talking heads, since the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBR) are the real trackers of the data, and at this point because we’re

Good Afternoon Friends, That JPMorgan Collar on the SPX is keeping us range-bound, and we are feeling a bit of reverse to the Volatility Means, so many of the underlyings should be near the center of the Bollinger Band. Which