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]. 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: 50.9% VIX Status: 20.5 … Read more
On July 23, Starbucks (SBUX) tested its 200-day moving average (DMA) for the first time since last October. This support held as the general stock market rallied into the close. This level also happened to coincide with SBUX’s breakout in March as SBUX moved on to fresh all-time highs. Source: FreeStockCharts.com If SBUX fails to … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on July 22, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) With an increasingly dour macro-economic backdrop, one might expect a very large response to Apple’s July earnings report {snip}… However, the trading action going into Tuesday evening’s earnings report was very … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on July 20, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) Spotting anomalies and/or extremes continues to provide a key catalyst when it comes to trading earnings. On July 18th, I issued a series of tweets describing a potential bullish setup to … 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: 59.9% (ends last overbought … Read more