Wendy Kirkland’s Market Watch September 15, 2025

Wendy Kirkland’s Market Watch 
September 15, 2025

Join Option Trader Wendy Kirkland for an insightful session as she discusses her recent week in the market! 
This week, she’ll share her experiences in the stock market and her option strategies for the upcoming week.

Key Market Observations

• Anticipation of Interest Rate News: The market is showing significant volatility and a “tug of war” between bulls and bears as investors await news on a potential interest rate decrease.
• Index Performance: The market is mixed. The Nasdaq is the strongest index, having gapped up and continued to rise. The Dow Jones and the Russell indices are experiencing many swings, moving between positive and negative territory. Overall, the market has been moving sideways.
• Sector Analysis: There is no single dominant sector; performance is a mixture of red and green across the board, with major stocks like Tesla and Google up, while many others are down.

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Technical Analysis and Trading Example

• Dow Weekly Chart: An analysis of the Dow’s weekly chart shows that while it is near all-time highs, the price action has been relatively flat for the past five weeks. The moving averages suggest a bullish trend, but they are starting to flatten, indicating market uncertainty.
• Successful QQQ Trade: Wendy shares a recent trade on the QQQ (the Nasdaq 100 ETF) that yielded a profit of nearly 30% in just over two days. She explains that they entered the trade based on a bullish pattern and closed the position after the market gapped up in the morning to lock in profits ahead of the potential interest rate news.

She concludes by emphasizing that her goal is to teach traders how to identify these patterns and trade for themselves, enabling them to find profitable opportunities even in a volatile market.