ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/ Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000. Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:22:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cropped-onetwentytwo_icon-32x32.png ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/ 32 32 Damage from the AI Trade Weighs on Market Breadth https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/2026/10/19/damage-from-ai-trade-weighs-on-market-breadth/ https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/2026/10/19/damage-from-ai-trade-weighs-on-market-breadth/#respond Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:55:24 +0000 https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/?p=84304 The Market Breadth Summary The Stock Market Summary Damage from the AI trade drove the NASDAQ to its worst weekly decline since June. A convergence of events and headlines has brought the market to another critical juncture, this time in the last of the stock market’s most dangerous months of the year. The renewed tech ... Read more

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]]> https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/2026/10/19/damage-from-ai-trade-weighs-on-market-breadth/feed/ 0 A Slowly Changing Bearish Divergence – The Market Breadth https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/2026/10/12/slowly-changing-bearish-divergence-the-market-breadth/ https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/2026/10/12/slowly-changing-bearish-divergence-the-market-breadth/#respond Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:30:43 +0000 https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/?p=84191 The Market Breadth Summary The Stock Market Summary The stock market tentatively moved away from oversold’s edge. While small caps clung to critical support, the equal weight S&P 500 rallied most of the week and even ended its primary downtrend. The supportive moves prevented market breadth from revisiting the prior week’s lows even as the ... Read more

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]]> https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/2026/10/12/slowly-changing-bearish-divergence-the-market-breadth/feed/ 0 What Happened in the Housing Market – Increasing Pressure https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/2026/10/06/what-happened-in-the-housing-market-increasing-pressure/ https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/2026/10/06/what-happened-in-the-housing-market-increasing-pressure/#respond Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:39:33 +0000 https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/?p=83944 Housing Market Intro and Summary In my previous housing market update, I described an enduring bear market in homebuilder stocks alongside weak sales, depressed builder sentiment, and constrained affordability. Unfortunately, that underlying story remains intact. Increasing pressure from higher mortgage rates, weakening builder sentiment, and stressed homebuilder stocks overshadows the month-over-month gains in housing starts ... Read more

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]]> https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/2026/10/06/what-happened-in-the-housing-market-increasing-pressure/feed/ 0 Weak Jobs Report Pulls the Stock Market From Oversold’s Edge – The Market Breadth https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/2026/10/03/weak-jobs-report-pulls-stock-market-from-oversolds-edge-the-market-breadth/ https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/2026/10/03/weak-jobs-report-pulls-stock-market-from-oversolds-edge-the-market-breadth/#respond Sun, 04 Oct 2026 05:20:54 +0000 https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/?p=84049 The Market Breadth Summary The Stock Market Summary Last week started with a major market tension: levitating major indices versus plunging market breadth. The week ended with little resolution as tech stocks, mostly AI-related, reaffirmed the bullish posture of the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ while bond yields maintained a persistent rally that imperils Friday’s ... Read more

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]]> https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/2026/10/03/weak-jobs-report-pulls-stock-market-from-oversolds-edge-the-market-breadth/feed/ 0 Tech Stocks Keep Winning, Market Breadth Failing https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/2026/09/27/tech-stocks-keep-winning-market-breadth-failing/ https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/2026/09/27/tech-stocks-keep-winning-market-breadth-failing/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:24:07 +0000 https://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/?p=83947 The Market Breadth Summary The Stock Market Summary High tech stocks keep winning as AI leadership carries the sector and the headline indices, but market breadth keeps failing including a steep downtrend all month. In the prior week, the AI trade hit a short speed bump on AI safety concerns, but last week’s rally confirmed ... Read more

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