With Trading Anchor Bill Olsen and Steve Hill, CEO of AIQ Systems.
In this episode of NewsWare’s AIQ Markets podcast, we explore the impact of recent tariff escalations on market volatility.
Host Emily Advani, along with experts Bill Olsen of NewsWare and Steve Hill, CEO of AIQ Systems, dive into how these developments affect various sectors, including retail, software, and soft drinks. Learn how traders can leverage both fundamental and technical analysis to navigate these turbulent times and uncover opportunities in stocks Nike (NKE) and Salesforce (CRM), amongst others. Tune in to gain valuable insights on staying ahead in an unpredictable market landscape.
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As the second quarter of 2025 wrapped up, the AIQ Market Expert System recorded a notable cluster of bearish expert ratings. While prices pushed to new 21-day highs, the system flagged key divergences that often precede market reversals. Despite these warnings, a formal phase change — a decisive shift in the system’s directional rating — has not yet occurred.
🔍 Internals vs. Price: A Classic Divergence
Between June 26 and June 30, the market hit intraday and closing 21-day highs, suggesting upward momentum. However, several internal indicators — all monitored by the AIQ Market Expert System — painted a different picture:
Advance/Decline Oscillator readings were negative, showing a lack of participation behind the rally.
Up/Down Volume Oscillator also turned negative, signaling that declining stocks had heavier volume than advancing ones.
On June 26, even though closing prices hit a 21-day high, net advances declined, indicating a breadth-based non-confirmation.
This multi-day divergence between price action and internal strength is rare, and historically, it’s a high-confidence bearish signal.
🧠 Expert System Says: “Warning, Not Yet Confirmed”
While the AIQ Expert Ratings have issued several down alerts, the overall market phase has not yet flipped from up to down. In AIQ’s model, this is a cautionary period — often marking the last stage of a rally before momentum fades.
⚠️ Bottom Line
The AIQ Market Expert System is showing internal deterioration despite new highs in price — a clear warning signal. However, without a confirmed phase change, traders should remain alert but avoid overreacting.
This is exactly the kind of market behavior the AIQ TradingExpert Pro system is designed to detect — so traders can act on early warnings, not late confirmations.
Tune into a special edition of NewsWare’s Trade Talk.CEO of AIQ Systems, Steve Hill joins NewsWare’s Bill Olsen to catch up on how their previous sector analysis worked out as markets have navigated the latest developments on tariffs, and they offer their insight on what sectors to watch in the coming months and which ones to put on the back burner. There is at least one sector that may surprise you that is seeing some strong indicators to the upside and one classically solid sector to be cautious of moving ahead.
