Stocks Drop With Powell On Deck
Michael Kramer | May 17, 2022 12:57AM ET
Stocks were all over the place yesterday, down sharply to open, up sharply mid-day, and down by day’s end. The S&P 500 index finished lower by 40 bps, but fell by nearly 1.1% from its afternoon highs to afternoon lows.h2 S&P 500/h2
Whatever you want to call this period of consolidation, the pattern is growing more and more negative. Once the SPY trend line at 4,000 breaks decisively, it should result in that gap-filling at 3,930, with the potential to go to 3,860s.
The S&P 500 futures have formed a potential double top pattern and will need to break below the 3,980s for that pattern to start playing out, which also suggests a decline to the 3,860s.
The only reason the S&P 500 managed to hold up as well as it did was that there was a mild VIX melt all day long yesterday, which was surprising since Powell will be speaking today. One would think that hedging would have been focused on yesterday, but maybe the plan is to place those hedges today, or perhaps everyone feels they are already perfectly hedged.
It is clear that despite all the games being played in the equity market, financial conditions are still getting tighter, and based on the IEF/LQD ratio, conditions are now their tightest since early March. This measure works well enough to tell us that it is not good for stock prices over the long run as the ratio rises further.
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Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) fell 10.5% yesterday after a big up week last week. The rally last week looks like a retracement to the other side of the trading channel and nothing more. If so, the mid-280s should be in the stock’s not-too-distance future.
The gap for Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) at $33.30 stands a chance of being filled. That would take the stock back to prices last seen in February 2021.
That may be a falling wedge in Roku (NASDAQ:ROKU) and a bullish divergence formed on the RSI. It may even mean the stock can go up should it rise above the down trend line and head towards the $110s. Of course, failure could mean the mid-$70s.
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