Global Mail Archive
This is where you can find all of our Global Mail articles from Ivan Martchev.
11-11-25: The Pullback is Over, If….
by Ivan Martchev November 11, 2025 The S&P’s recent 4.2% decline was the kind of pullback I expected, a little larger than any pullback since late April, when the market began to [...]
11-4-25: Geopolitics are About to Come to the Fore in the Next Two Weeks
by Ivan Martchev November 4, 2025 The Wall Street Journal ran a story last Thursday entitled, “U.S. Eyes Striking Venezuelan Military Targets Used for Drug Trafficking,” implying that such strikes against that [...]
10-28-25: Market Sets New Highs, After No “Trillion Dollar Tweets”
by Ivan Martchev October 28, 2025 I’ve been writing about the power of presidential tweets over the last two-weeks. While technically not a tweet, there was a move similar in magnitude to [...]
10-21-25: Will We See Any More “Trillion Dollar Tweets?”
by Ivan Martchev October 21, 2025 Every day since that dreadful tweet on Friday October 10, which caused the S&P 500 to lose 182.60-points, we have seen huge daily ranges of over [...]
10-14-25: Two Tweets Totaling $2-Trillion (aka, “The Sun Tzu Sell-Off”)
by Ivan Martchev October 14, 2025 For most of the last six-months, it was kind of nice to not see aggressive presidential tweets in the middle of the trading day, but the [...]
10-7-25: We’re Seeing “Toppy” Action Without Conviction
by Ivan Martchev October 7, 2025 On both Thursday and Friday, October 2-3, the S&P 500 set fresh all-time highs, and on both days the index closed below where it opened. This [...]
9-30-25: A Quarter-Ending Ramp-Up Is Likely
by Ivan Martchev September 30, 2025 Today, September 30, is when the third-quarter ends. Investors typically celebrate that event by pushing stock prices up at the end of the quarter. Just go [...]
9-23-25: We’re In “Thin-Air” Territory in the U.S. Stock Market
by Ivan Martchev September 23, 2025 In trading lingo, there are plenty of common sense sayings that need to be respected. “The trend is your friend” is one of the more common [...]
9-16-25: S&P 6600.21
by Ivan Martchev September 16, 2025 Another all-time high a fraction of a point above 6600 and another weak Friday close for the S&P 500. Last Friday it was only marginally negative, [...]
9-9-25: What September’s Low Market Volatility Means
by Ivan Martchev September 9, 2025 I have explained Bollinger bands before. They are a type of statistical indicator that places two bands – each measuring two standard deviations – around a [...]
9-3-25: The President’s Misguided Assault on the Federal Reserve
by Ivan Martchev September 3, 2025 It seems to me that the Trump administration – mainly the President himself – views the Federal Reserve like the Supreme Court. The more appointees he [...]
8-26-25: The S&P 500 Could Tag 6600 this Week
by Ivan Martchev August 26, 2025 We closed last Friday just a few points from the all-time high in the S&P 500 of 6,481. The violence of that move that day shows [...]