The story line continues as the Federal Reserve makes headlines yesterday. It's likely that the market will remain FED driven and skittish throughout the year. The FED report came out pretty hawkish along with Powell's news conference causing the markets to reverse earlier gains and to close on their lows of the day challenging June lows. Will the market hold those lows or make new lows? That's the question. Due to the heavy selling volume, indicating institutional selling, and the course of the FED, it's most probable that new lows are in store for this market. Below are our updated charts detailing the major averages and the internal numbers like the advance decline line. All of the technical indicators suggest maintaining a very conservative posture in the market both in equities and bonds. Currently, we are building positions in treasuries going out 6 months with most of of our reserves in the highest yielding money markets that we can buy. That said we are still trading opportunistically with a nominal exposure both short and long equities as we try to navigate and scalp what we can in this treacherous environment. Viewing the updated graphs below, one only needs to recognize the complex price structures under their negative sloping 200 day moving average lines (red line) that caution is warranted in this current market.
We periodically update our charts below. Please review them as they are a main driver in our investment process. Study of price action has been a key component in our portfolio management system to mitigate market risk during extreme times.
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