ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
With a bear market underway and oversold trading conditions, I am actively looking for longer-term buys in the stock market. Tax, accounting, and personal finance services software company Intuit Inc (INTU) jumped into my radar thanks to CNBC’s Options Action. Michael Khouw laid out the case for buying a long-term INTU call option, but he … Read more
Stock Market Commentary: In the middle of last week, the S&P 500 was poised to hit bear market territory. Conditions were ripe with the stock market trading in deeply oversold territory and other indices toiling deeply in bear markets; a sharp rebound could happen at any time for any excuse. Both the S&P 500 and … Read more
TLDR: Coinbase Global, Inc (COIN) did not directly answer the question about a new disclosure: can a bankruptcy filing by Coinbase result in the loss of a customer’s assets? The Rolling Disaster I am one unhappy Coinbase (COIN) shareholder. After alternating between buying and shorting COIN at much higher levels, I finally settled on buying … Read more
Stock Market Commentary: The stock market finally dropped into deep oversold territory. Yet, on this third day of now extended oversold trading conditions, the S&P 500 (SPY) remains 98 points away from joining the NASDAQ and IWM in hitting a bear market (a 20% loss from its all-time high). The stock market is well on … Read more
Bitcoin Boring Bitcoin (BTC/USD) was pretty boring until this past weekend. After neatly failing at resistance from its 200-day moving average (DMA) in late March, BTC/USD settled back into what was starting to look like an extended trading range. However, the pressures of the bear market and a soaring U.S. dollar (DXY) proved too much … Read more