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.) T2108 Status: 54% and Neutral General Trading Call: Hold. Commentary T2108 jumped 7.5 percentage points from yesterday’s 46% level. As expected, conditions were ripe for a bounce given T2108 had dropped … 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: 46% and Neutral General Trading Call: Cover some shorts. Commentary T2108 is just below April’s low of 47%. Given the S&P 500 is straddling critical support at the 50DMA … Read more
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) released its minutes from its last board meeting, May 3. I reviewed these minutes curious to understand the bank’s expectations for commodity prices given the on-going sell-off in commodities. The meeting occurred just as commodities started their current sell-off, so these pressures were not salient at the time. However, … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) Municipal bonds have had a very quiet rally since the January lows has accelerated in the past month as the bond market in general has found new life. The likely irony is that the economic weakness … 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: 50% and Neutral General Trading Call: Hold. Commentary T2108 is approaching its lows from last month while the S&P 500 remains above its 50DMA and 2.7% away from retesting … Read more