ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
Housing Market Intro and Summary I asked in my last Housing Market Review whether the housing downturn could already be coming to a swift end. The stocks of home builders delivered that message and more and more earnings reports from home builders are apparently delivering messages of a sharp recovery. A widening divergence between existing … Read more
Stock Market Statistics AT40 = 40.1% of stocks are trading above their respective 40-day moving averages (DMAs) (2-month low)AT200 = 20.1% of stocks are trading above their respective 200DMAs VIX = 34.7Short-term Trading Call: neutral Stock Market Commentary After a one-day respite, the damage in the stock market continued. This time, the damage was more … Read more
Last week, I anticipated that Soliton would announce a secondary offering of stock following the release of a successful trial of its cellulite treatment. Soliton (SOLY) delivered with after hours news of a secondary stock offering in the form of an SEC filing. So now what? The Trade Rules At the time of writing, traders … Read more
Stock Market Statistics AT40 = 47.9% of stocks are trading above their respective 40-day moving averages (DMAs) (2-month low)AT200 = 21.5% of stocks are trading above their respective 200DMAs VIX = 33.8Short-term Trading Call: neutral Stock Market Commentary The damage in the stock market is only visible upon close examination. The top technicals for the … Read more
The Stock Alphabet (GOOG), formerly Google, has stalled out in an important gap created in February. At that time, the stock lost 4.3% on a day when the entire stock market gapped down and ushered in he beginnings of the March stock market collapse. The stock rallied into the gap on June 10th. Two weeks … Read more