The fear index is flashing a warning signal for SPX500
The SPX500 is up close to 15% since its March low of around 3,800. However, the VIX, which is commonly referred to the fear index may be suggesting caution.
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The SPX500 is up close to 15% since its March low of around 3,800. However, the VIX, which is commonly referred to the fear index may be suggesting caution.
On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit against Amazon, accusing the leading e-commerce giant of deliberately deceiving countless customers to enroll in its Prime service and actively impeding their efforts to terminate their subscriptions.
The European Commission has said that Google’s advertising technology practices breaches EU antitrust laws. It has recommended that the company break up adtech, its ad business.
TSLA.us is up 145% since its January low. The stock is benefiting from enthusiasm around tax credits, its charging network, and the Cybertruck.
Netflix has moved passed its accumulation phase into a mark-up phase. It is trading above its black 200-day simple moving average, and, importantly, the SMA is pointing up. We have added On Balance Volume (OBV) as the indicator underneath the price chart. Volume is a measure of supply and demand. In this case both the price and OBV are coordinated and trending up. According to OBV theory, this connotes that…
The SPX500 is trading more than 20% from its October low. It is generally considered that a 20% increase off a recent low suggests a bull market, whilst a 20% decline connotes a bear market. This definition may be considered loose, and filters need to be applied so that whipsaws do not continuously swing it between bull and bear market. E.g., typically, another 10% move in the opposite direction is…
The NAS100 is a growth index and is generally sensitive to interest rates. There are concerns that the Federal Reserve will keep borrowing costs higher for longer and this is currently impacting the index.
The iPhone maker unveiled on Monday its long-rumored mixed reality goggles, the first major new product announcement, entering a market occupied mostly by Facebook-parent Meta and its Metaverse
The weekly NAS100 has charted a series of higher troughs followed by higher peaks. This puts the index into an uptrend.
The US2000 tracks the performance of 2,000 small-cap US stocks. It is generally a more volatile index, as smaller companies have more limited access to financial resources than big companies. Many view the US2000 as a barometer of the US economy, due to its sensitivity to macroeconomics. Thus, its underperformance is worrisome.
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