Archive Category: Andrew Zatlin's Superforecast Trader (Alerts)

After a great showing the first two days of our Super Divergence trade, the market turned on us once again on the final day of holding. However, just as last week, the market’s fall had nothing to do with our data on initial jobless claims — claims fell to their lowest level since 1969. It was more headline noise…

Jobless claims are down… But tensions in Iran are once again heating back up… Meanwhile, we’ve got another Super Divergence trading opportunity for this week. Matt Clark’s got all the details below, but first I’d like to recap what we’ve been seeing these past few weeks in jobless claims, and what that’s telling me about the broader economy. Click below to start the video, then scroll down for your recommendation.

Coming into our Super Divergence trade on Tuesday, I mentioned there was an expectation of more market volatility this week. And the market didn’t disappoint. Here’s how I framed market expectations this week…

This is a big one, folks… Wall Street’s projections are going to miss this week’s jobless claims wide, and that presents us with an especially promising Super Divergence opportunity. Matt Clark has the details of the trade below, and this week’s video update will delve a little more into the reason why this week’s trade is so compelling.

Well, we went into the week with some cautious optimism that the opening of the quarterly earnings season would ease investors’ minds regarding the resilient-consumer story that Andrew’s claims data flagged. Our expectation was that the ease would carry the broad market higher. The setup was sound, but the week had other plans.