Day 63 of the never-ending bull story. Price pauses briefly sitting just under new all-time highs. I once again sound like a broken record.
Three stocks – Micron, Nvidia, Alphabet – now drive over 40% of this year’s S&P EPS revisions. The Three Atlases are holding up the whole sky.
Nine consecutive weekly gains on the S&P, +19.0% from 27 March. Only the 14th occurrence since 1930. Strongest of all time.
SPX in a range – wait for the breakout. RUT in a range – has broken out. Nice and simple.
BTC moving down like a madman. Small breakout target smashed. New larger target 60k zone. Elliott Wave count could see 50k.
Brent +5% to $95 on Hormuz threat. ISM Manufacturing prices index 82.1 – rate cuts dying. Zero Fed cuts now priced for 2026.

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Nine Up Weeks. Almanac Says Pause.

Three indexes closed at records Monday on one Nvidia laptop chip; Dell rose 10%, HP gained 8%, Intel fell 4%, and by Tuesday the futures had sobered up and slipped.
Micron, Nvidia and Alphabet drive over 40% of 2026 S&P earnings revisions, which makes the record-breaking rally a technically impressive three-man job with a 7,750 target.
Brent spiked 5% above $95 after Iran cut talks and threatened Hormuz; Trump assured everyone it works out, and the equity tape simply chose to believe him.
Markets now price zero Fed cuts in 2026 with ISM at 54 and prices at 82.1; Warsh inherits a hike-risk economy at his first meeting on June 17.
Bitcoin opened June near $73K as Strategy sold for the first time since 2022, proving the only thing more flexible than the price is the word never.

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The never-sell guy sold.

Bulls at it like rabbits again, bonking away to new all-time highs on three of the four indexes. Right on cue for the first of the month.
VIX heading down the rabbit hole, confirming the complacency. Nudging towards the year’s volatility lows. All the fear is gone.
Sell in May and go away bucked again. May was a stellar month for the record books in this “crash upwards for no reason” economy.
SPX swings keep swinging higher. With the continued flip-and-flops, wait for the breakdown before considering a bear move.
RUT out of the MACD-v danger zone. Clear range established. Waiting for the breakout before committing to a new swing trade.
BTC has been a darling – clear bear signal on the 4hr from daily range highs to range lows, multiple continuation setups along the way. Simples.
New month, first week full of red-flag news. ISM Monday. ADP and ISM Services Wednesday. NFP Friday.

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Bulls At It Like Rabbits Again.

Futures up. S&P 0.29%, Nasdaq 0.57%. June opened at records on a 60-day Iran deal Trump has not signed and is, by his own account, in no rush to.
SoftBank threw $53 billion at French AI and rose 5%. Nvidia idled near $211 and watched Samsung grab a chip first. The bellwether keeps missing its own rallies.
Brent near $92.56 after a 19% May rout, its worst month since the pandemic. The rally’s secret ingredient was cheaper oil, not anything resembling actual resolution.
Bitcoin near $73,600, below every average, as ETFs walked out with $2.3 billion. Stocks made records while crypto sat in Extreme Fear and quietly counted its losses.
April PCE hit 3.8%, the hottest since 2023. Warsh chairs his first FOMC June 16-17. Markets booked cuts; the inflation data appears to have booked something else.

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Nasdaq up 8% in May. Bitcoin handed back $2.3 billion.

We hit Friday up but still sluggish. The “markets only go up” run while frustrating will eventually come to an end. I don’t believe we’ll see a complete market collapse – but a consolidation wouldn’t be unrealistic.
On a personal note I would like to see a corrective move 5-10% simply because the market needs to reset itself. The price behaviour on most of the time frames is horrendous. Very scrappy.
SPX swings flipped bullish and back to bearish just as quick. Kept my bear swing, will likely roll it today if we don’t get a down move. Lazy more than anything.
RUT still in avoid mode due to the MACD-v reading. Gliding into a BBW pinch / range – waiting for the breakout makes sense.
BTC continues its down move. Now in breakout mode looking for a push to 70.5k as the breakout target.
Last Friday of the month – can be a little scrappy.

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Records On A Memo Nobody Signed.

Wall Street closed at records celebrating a 60-day Hormuz truce Trump hasn’t signed, struck hours after fresh missiles. Peace got priced. Peace did not get agreed.
SPX held 7,563 into month-end on a catalyst with a blank signature line. The only honest number on the page, 3.8% inflation, was politely ignored.
Bitcoin slid under $74,000 as ETFs bled $223M, the worst day in three weeks. The institutional bid that built the floor quietly left the building.
April PCE hit 3.8%, highest since May 2023, and the Fed’s promised cut evaporated. Warsh’s welcome gift is a possible hike at the mid-June meeting.
Friday brings month-end and three crowded bets: peace, disinflation, a dovish Fed. All three lean on one unsigned page. Pick which folds first.

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Warsh’s Welcome Gift: 3.8% Inflation And A Cancelled Cut

Struggling rally on the stock indexes. Prices grinding higher but VIX remains elevated – there’s fear ready to hedge or unload on a hair trigger’s notice.
More strikes overnight. The same stock indexes don’t seem bothered one way or the other. Conditioned to ignore it now. It’s old news.
Oil “jumped 3%” per the talking heads. In context it hasn’t even cleared yesterday’s high-to-low range. Non-news dressed as news.
BTC being kicked in the shins. Still bearish from the larger range highs targeting the range lows. Regular as clockwork.
SPX grinding sideways with the Bollinger Bands pinching. RUT has finally exited the bull extreme but signals are whipsawing – wait 1-2 days for a clean read.

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Stocks Stopped Reading The Headlines.

Oil jumped 3% on fresh strikes whilst S&P futures held near 7,538. Wall Street has decided the Middle East is a subscription it keeps forgetting to cancel.
Bitcoin fell to about $74,200 whilst gold sat flat near $4,480. The hedge sold off and the relic held its ground. Marketing, meet reality.
BlackRock’s IBIT logged its second-largest outflow on record, roughly $528 million in a single session. The rally’s favourite engine is now running firmly in reverse.
Salesforce and friends reported after the close; Zscaler had already fallen 20% on weak guidance. Beating estimates is nice, but promising more is apparently mandatory.
Warsh’s first full week meets Friday’s PCE near 3.3% with oil freshly spiking. A hawkish chair, a supply shock, and the worst possible timing.

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Bitcoin flinched. Equities didn’t. Guess which one’s the hedge.

SPX and Dow did what we thought yesterday – gapped higher, traded lower. SPX slightly, Dow definitely.
Nazquack and Uncle Russ decided to hold hands overnight and skip through the meadows of new all-time highs. NQ premarket already past its NATH. RTY past hers.
New SPX bear swing printed at Tuesday’s close but %R extreme says continuation. RUT bear setup ignored – MACD-v in bullish extreme is a continuation signal under the updated rules.
Oil is right on the cusp of a range reversal or a breakout. Exhaustion bar at the range low could be nullified – $80 if the channel breaks, $104 to $115 if the range holds.
BTC compressed between the VWAPs. 75K is the line. Below it, $72K looms. The H&S read from yesterday now muddied – this is why you don’t get married to pattern names.

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Nazquack And Uncle Russ Held Hands.

SPX 7,519.12 and Nasdaq 26,656.18 closed at fresh records Tuesday on the day Centcom fired on Iran. The tape, having considered both, picked records.
Micron crossed $1 trillion on a 19% Tuesday move. Memory now eats AI valuations. UBS sees over 100% additional upside, which is a number that lives in the future.
Brent rallied 4% Tuesday to $99 on the same Hormuz strikes the equity tape ignored. WTI $93. The two markets are looking at different newspapers.
Bitcoin stalls at $76,800 down 1% as equities print records. Spot BTC ETFs marked six straight outflow days totalling $1.55B. The institutions arrived and quietly left.
Warsh sworn in Friday at the White House by Justice Thomas. First FOMC June 16-17. 30-year yield at 5.02% is not asking permission for cuts.

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Records on Tuesday. Strikes overnight. Same tape Wednesday.