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. Click here to read the entire piece.) The shorts completely nailed solar stocks across the board in 2011. {snip} Please click on the charts to enlarge them. Source: NASDAQ.COM Solar bears have been very vocal, and very correct, in predicting a severe … 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 Status: 14% (Day #13 of the current oversold period). VIX Status: 42 General (Short-term) Trading Call: Only add … Read more
More and more stocks are hitting, and breaking, their March, 2009 and/or Fall, 2008 lows. For those people who missed out on the buying opportunities at that time, now seems like one of those rare moments where the market offers up a second chance. I am using similar logic to buy commodity-related stocks that have … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) Back in mid-May, I sold my holdings in MUB, the iShares S&P National Municipal Bond ET. I purchased MUB in December of last year because the big discount seemed to big to resist; I was … Read more
Gold is suddenly just about the only asset that is working in financial markets. This fact will likely ignite a positive feedback loop that will send gold parabolic in a matter of time. In “India Gold Imports May Reach a Record“, Bloomberg provides some great statistics from various sources that seem to add weight to … Read more