ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on November 13, 2011. Click here to read the entire piece.) On Thursday evening, November 10, 2011, rare earth miner and producer Molycorp (MCP) reported strong earnings. There were no surprises given the strong guidance CEO Mark Smith delivered the previous week. … Read more
This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on November 12, 2011. Click here to read the entire piece.) I have long argued that gold sentiment does not exhibit the euphoria one would expect in a bubble (for example, see “Enthusiasm for Gold Continues to Wane“). A recent podcast on … Read more
(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other trades are posted on twitter using the #120trade hashtag) T2108 Status: 81% (15th day of … Read more
AAPL spent a large part of the first half of 2011 under-performing the market with a relatively low valuation (for example, see “A Rare and Important Test for Apple’s Recently Underperforming Stock“). AAPL’s relative under-performance has returned, and its stubborn inability to regain lost momentum is getting more than a bit disconcerting. Apple (AAPL) is … Read more
(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other trades are posted on twitter using the #120trade hashtag) T2108 Status: 74% (fourteenth day of … Read more