How did the stock market perform during the 2011 debt ceiling crisis? the S&P 500 fell 17% during the 2011 debt ceiling crisis.
How does the stock market perform after Fed interest rate hike cycles? The last seven times the Fed increased interest rates, the average gain was 16% twelve months later. It's a small sample size.
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The regional bank sector breaching below the lower channel of three standard deviations suggests the the downtrend in regional banks are an outlier.
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These charts show the S&P 500 stock index over 12, 9, 6, and 3-month momentum, or rate of change, and the directional trend is labeled with simple trend lines.
The S&P 500 stock market index prints higher lows to resume its uptrend over the last six months.
It's the southern states like Tennessee, Texas, Geogia, North Carolina, and Florida, along with some conservative western states like Wyoming and Nebraska that have the lowest debt per capita.
The directional trend of the e 10 Year U.S. Treasury Yield with 3 standard deviations shows the trend in interest rates has made a material breakout of its historical range of the past 270 months (22.5 years.)
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Sector trend following, momentum, and volatility
Trend following the stock market.
The sharp uptrend breakouts make investors more optimistic about the stock market, but though strong momentum is bullish, it may be an overreaction.
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Natural gas, known as nat gas on the street, has crashed down along with heating oil.
The objective of a strangle is to capture the volatility premium inbedded in option prices, but with less risk than in a straddle, another established premium capture strategy.
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Trend following is a directional trading strategy that uses price-based "technical" indicators to identify trends with the objective to gain exposure to the direction of the price trend, expecting the trend to continue.