ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are likely to reverse. 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 … Read more
Coal is a dying source of energy. It has left a trail of tears in the stock market. Communities reliant on coal have been long-suffering. So I was quite surprised to read that George Soros bought back into coal stocks from April to June, 2015. This is the same man who once called coal a … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on January 29, 2015. Click here to read the entire piece.) This year has started for SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) in a fashion eerily similar to 2014. On December 18, 2013, the Federal Reserve officially announced the planned tapering of its bond … Read more
I thought I was done blogging about Zulily (ZU). The acquisition of ZU by Liberty Interactive (QVCA) on August 17, 2015 brought back the pain that was ZU right back into full view for me. My mistake with ZU started a little over a year ago as a play on a relatively consistent stock market … Read more
https://instagram.com/p/6aXCJ2JFi5/ I heard about this Instagram post on CNBC of all places. The article was brief and just reported the news. I was expecting some commentary directly linking this to financial markets. Seeing none, I will make my own link here. James Harrison is a linebacker in America’s National Football League. He plays for a … Read more