From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

It's like Thursday never happened.

I was looking for a consolidation, with a possibility of $SPY 364 to...

There are a lot of trends in markets that are worth paying attention to.

Remember, asset prices trend. They're not random.

We...

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Happy Friday.

That was a nice reversal yesterday in the indices. I wouldn't mind a little consolidation today.

The most significant insider transaction on today’s list was reported in a series of Form 4 filings by Hill Path Capital Partners LP.

The investment company reported a total of roughly $10 million in purchases of Dave & Busters $PLAY.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

What a day.

We went from SPX lows at 3,491 to a close at 3,669. It was nice to be up over 2% versus being down 2% for a...

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

As I write this morning, the futures are trading higher, with the SPX at 3,600 ahead of the release of September CPI data.

I'd like to see the SPX hold onto 3,600 and trend higher from here, but...

The largest insider transaction on today's list is a Form 4 filing by the Greenwich-based hedge fund Viking Global Investors.

The fund reported a purchase worth roughly $40 million in the small-cap biotech Inhibrx $INBX, increasing its total...

In bear markets you tend to get more and more stocks making new lows.

We haven't seen that.

In bull markets you tend to get more...

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

It was a very uneventful day, even though we had the Fed minutes out at 2:00 p.m. ET.

The $SPY stayed below...

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Volatility reigns, and it surely proved itself yesterday with the massive drop in the indices starting around 2:45 p.m. ET.

To me, the S&P 500 would have to get above and stay above 3,667...

Cathie Wood's ARK Investment Management is on our list today, as the ETF provider just filed 13Gs for two of its healthcare holdings.

In one of the filings, ARK reported a 10.64% stake in the genomics outfit Ginkgo Bioworks $DNA.

ARK...

We debuted a new scan recently which goes by the name- All Star Momentum.

All Star Momentum is a brand new scan that guides us toward the very best stocks in the market. We have incorporated our stock universe of Nifty 500 as the base this...

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Starting at 11:00 a.m. ET, the market started to gain some traction and trended higher from the morning lows.

A little before...

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

As of 6:00 a.m. ET $SPY was trading at 356, below the most recent low of 357. We have since bounced.

As we know, this can all change by the time the market opens.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

This market is not for the faint of heart. It'll whipsaw you around, so you must be diligent. Failing that, it's best not to trade...

In bear markets you'll find that the majority of stocks are making lower lows and lower highs in price.

With basic arithmetic, we can call those downtrends.