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 December 28, 2011. Click here to read the entire piece.) The Federal Reserve’s second phase of quantitative easing (QE2) is slowly becoming a distant memory…{snip} The stark contrast between winning and losing stocks (S&P 500 index versus many commodity stocks) leaves … Read more
Recently, the euro has received more focus than ever, especially as it printed new 11-month lows against the U.S. dollar and new 11-YEAR lows against the yen today (December 29th). However, over the past week, the British pound has fared even WORSE than the euro. The euro is now trading at 10-day highs versus the … Read more
In this post, I take a detour from the analysis of financial markets to another passion of mine, professional football! The analytical lesson here is that context and relative comparisons are always important to understand the true significance of performance. Moreover, trying hard is a sufficient criteria for success, but trying a LOT is likely … 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: 58% VIX Status: 21 … Read more
I was surprised to see such a promising stock chart from General Electric (GE). The S&P 500 is struggling to overcome overhead resistance, so I would have assumed the same behavior out of an industrial, big cap like GE. Instead, a 23% rally off a successful retest of the 2011 lows, has punched General Electric … Read more