Lawrence Chan's Blog, page 2
May 17, 2025
TLC Weekly Update May 17, 2025
Another week of SPX rising higher thanks to non-stop announcements of deals after deals. The same question traders have last week is now again being asked. Are we going higher from here or is this a bull trap? Chris Vermeulen obviously thinks that this is a bull trap. Found this interesting discussion with Raoul Pal …
May 10, 2025
TLC Weekly Update May 10, 2025
A relatively quiet week in the stock market while the world is waiting for “trade deals” is reasonable. As majority of the trading professionals are staying on the sideline, we have a new record of 21 weeks of consecutive weeks of inflow from retail investors into the stock market. If the short break in late …
May 3, 2025
TLC Weekly Update May 3, 2025
A first ever event just happened to the stock market this week, 9 days straight up sending SPX back up to the level before the Trump tariff announcement. So are we on our way to new all time high then? I don’t know – this bounce was expected but it is not unfolding the way that …
April 26, 2025
TLC Weekly Update April 26, 2025
After serious trouble emerged in the US bond markets, Trump did what all politicians do all the time – lie to the world that there will be a deal, and he will lower tariff against China, etc. The Mag 7 stocks overall gave the impression that things are not going that bad so far. Hence we …
April 19, 2025
TLC Weekly Update April 19, 2025
After a crazy week of of extreme volatility in the stock market, we have a relatively quiet market this week. In addition to that, it is also a shortened trading week thanks to Easter Friday. What makes this week special is that the normal option expiration for the month was supposed to be yesterday, but …
April 12, 2025
TLC Weekly Update April 12, 2025
We just experienced the most volatile week in the entire history of the US stock market. Nasdaq 100 index future actually went limit down at 7% without breaking the previous trading day low for 2 minutes. The exchange authorities, however, chose not to lock up NQ and waited for S&P index future to do the …
April 5, 2025
TLC Weekly Update April 5, 2025
What a week for the US stock market – no one believes Trump’s tariff plan has such impact on the financial markets until it was announced. The shock sent the stock market lower by around 10% going into Friday. And dumb hedge funds are piling onto shorts at extreme level going into the close. I said …
March 30, 2025
March 22, 2025
TLC Weekly Update March 22, 2025
US stock market finally found some footing and bounced off the 10% correction level thanks to eager bulls jumping in for bargain hunting. However, the technical players are not convinced and many of them are crying out loud “sky is falling”. Next week is month end and …
March 15, 2025
TLC Weekly Update March 15, 2025
What a wild week for the US stock market. Many market participants are so happy that a bounce has finally happened on Friday. Some even say that the selloff is over. This selloff so far is just 10% correction for SPX but it is a much deeper correction for …
