Archive Category: Max Profit Alert (Alerts)

Back in the old days, well before financial markets were electronic… A man by the name of Charles Dow (1851-1902) came up with an elegantly simple theory that I’ve long argued still applies to markets today. It was the age of industrial production, so market observers kept their eyes peeled on both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Dow Jones Transportation Average — the former was largely made up of manufacturing stocks, while the latter held most railroad stocks.

After running the numbers, Chief Research Analyst Matt Clark and I have determined there are no Wednesday Windfalls trades this week. We did have valid signals on six of our 15 ETFs used in the strategy, but after research and calculation, the implied volatility of these potential trades was too high. Implied volatility is the market’s expectation of future price fluctuations for a stock or an option.

After running the numbers, Chief Research Analyst Matt Clark and I have determined there are no Wednesday Windfalls trades this week. Markets are pushing lower after Friday’s jobs report pointed to a slowdown in the U.S. labor market. Investors are concerned that the Federal Reserve has put the economy behind the eight ball by holding rates higher for longer.

After running the numbers, Chief Research Analyst Matt Clark and I have determined there are no Wednesday Windfalls trades this week. Markets are trending higher as investors mull the upcoming Federal Reserve meeting. As a reminder, the major tenets of our strategy that focuses on 15 broad exchange-traded funds (ETF) are:

Between the July 11 inflation report and Monday’s news of Joe Biden’s exit from the 2024 presidential race … every shade of the market has been making rapid readjustments over the past couple of weeks. We’re largely taking advantage of the shifts, particularly in the “small-cap” trade we jumped into the same day as that CPI print — making a quick 77% on one-third of our Direxion Small-Cap Bull 3x ETF (NYSE: TNA) calls.