ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
With the S&P 500 hitting fresh 3-year highs this week, the index is poised to recapture the previous uptrend that was interrupted by March’s double calamities of the Japan earthquake and hostilities in Libya. The stock market is overbought with T2108, the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages (DMAs), at a … Read more
Gold Luring Central-Bank Buyers May Extend Record Rally – Bloomberg Central banks that were net sellers of gold a decade ago are buying the precious metal to reduce their reliance on the dollar as a reserve currency, signaling demand that may extend a record rally in prices. (tags: gold monetary_policy central_banks) Adjusted For Inflation, Dollar … Read more
Excerpt from an article I published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece: Three months ago, LDK Solar (LDK) wowed the market with a tremendous hike in guidance for both the fourth quarter of FY10 and the entire FY2011. The stock closed up 18% on the day. LDK went on to retest … Read more
I have questioned the finances and balance sheet of Evergreen Solar (ESLR). I have claimed that betting on ESLR is a speculative bet on survival. I used a pullback from the stock’s last big rally as an entry to make that crazy boom or bust bet. Now, I must prepare for the very real possibility … Read more
Buyers Beware: Silver Crashed 11% in 24 Hours – CNBC Shortly after the start of overnight trading at 12:10 a.m. on Monday, silver futures surged to a multi-year high of $49.82 per ounce. Nine hours later, by the start of stock market trading in the U.S., the May Silver contract was down eight percent. Shortly … Read more