Morning Market Report 5/15

May 15, 2017

The Morning Market Report is a daily report delivered to Tackle Trading members. In this report, you’ll receive a summary of major market news, the list of that day’s economic calendar, information regarding th major markets indexes, industry sector performance, comodities, currencies. and links to usefull sites and/or stories.

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Todays Economic Calendar (Eastern Time Zone):

8:30 AM – Manufacturing Index (see below)

10:30 AM – Housing Market Index

News Links:

Economic News Highlights:

NY Fed’s Manufacturing Index – The New York Federal Reserve’s index of manufacturing conditions contracted for the first time in seven months in May, as new orders and shipments turned negative
Oil Surges Up 3% – Oil prices extended sharp overnight gains in North American trading on Monday, after Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed to extend oil output cuts for a further nine months until March 2018 in a bid to erode a global crude glut.
Oil prices have gained about 3% this week even after the most recent profit taking.
North Korea Increasingly Defiant – North Korea said on Monday it had successfully conducted a mid- to-long-range missile test and would continue such launches “any time, any place”, defying UN Security Council resolutions and warnings from the United States.
Global Stocks Rise Overnight – Global stock markets rose on Monday, as investors shrugged off another missile test by North Korea and threats from a cyberattack that spread around the globe at the weekend.

Major Index Charts and Observations:

S&P 500 – Currently at 2,391 – Some bullish pre-market open momentum but the negative report by the Fed may dampen that.
Dow 30 – Currently at 20,896 – essentially neutral trading this morning (might be catching its breath after running up hard)
Nasdaq – Currently at 5,687 – Some bullish pre-market open momentum but the negative report by the Fed may dampen that.
Russel 2000 – Currently at 1390 – Still within its trading range (an iron condor trader’s dream)

Commodities:

Comodities are rising this moring except for Natural Gas that is consolidating after an epic last week.

Silver currently 16.768 – strong early morning gains – finally (see chart below)
Gold currently 1234 – essentially neutral but with strong early morning gains (see chart below)
Natural Gas currently 3.364 – break a critial resistance last week, now retracing. This morning will show if that previous resistance will hold and become support.
Crude Oil currently $49.47 – has increased sharply in the last 4 days and continues to be bullish overnight

Market Sectors:

When looking for bulls and bears remember that “a rising tide lifts all boats” so choose your bulls in a bullish sector and choose your bears in a bearish sector to get an edge.

XLE (Energy) has been the most bearish for the last few months though it has been having a bullish retracement since last week.

XLK (technology) has been very bullish followed by XLY (consumer discretionary)

Currencies:

The USD is currently at 98.73 – the dollar has started to fall again against other currencies.

Bitcoin has retraced to $1,745 afer briefly hitting 1,800 last week (remember bitcoin is volatile)

Ethereum – $91.60; continuing to climb, to learn more listen to Tackle Trading Podcast #216

TRADING THOUGHTS

Comodities – the comoditiesare bullish this morning except for natural gas
Market Bias – the markets are mixed this morning be cautious (if you can’t decide on a direction focus on cashflow strategies).

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