ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
The dollar index gained 0.75% on Friday as another phase of fears of Greece sent folks out the euro and into U.S. dollars. The 50-day moving average (DMA) has held as near-perfect support but Friday’s move has the shape of a bounce looking for follow-through. *Charts created using TeleChart: Follow-through from here, like a new … 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.) T2108 Status: 51% and Neutral General Trading Call: Hold. Commentary T2108 dropped back to 51%, suggesting that a trip to the 30-40% range remains in sight over the next week or … Read more
Almost two weeks ago, I wrote a piece titled “Lender Processing Services Poised to Profit as Housing Market Worsens” in which I provided my thoughts and analysis about the latest earnings conference call for LPS. That piece included a detailed review of the entire earnings conference call. I concluded that the information management provided seemed … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) Even as the market grinds lower in the current correction phase and solar stocks get slammed, GT Solar (SOLR) has stood out. Today, SOLR made new 2 1/2 year highs on the announcement of its latest … Read more
China’s sugar rush may be ending | James Saft China is an economy addicted to investment, a sort of fun house mirror of the U.S.’s addiction to consumption, with an astounding 93 percent of GDP growth in 2009 attributable to investment. That’s a strategy that worked well for years, but China’s response to the global … Read more