ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
Apple (APPL) has officially announced the launch of its latest product, the iWatch. Source: Yahoo! Finance Source: Apple.com This makes a great juncture to provide a quick technical update on Apple and update the classification trees for the Apple Trading Model (ATM). For those of you who are new to the ATM, please read up … Read more
After the market closed for trading on January 29, 2015, Intercept Pharmaceuticals (ICPT) released exciting news: ICPT’s “…investigational product obeticholic acid (OCA) has received “breakthrough therapy designation” from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) with liver fibrosis. This indication constitutes a population of patients with … Read more
Two weeks ago, I noted Rio Tinto (RIO) as a prime short as a late responder to the on-going collapse in iron ore prices. On Monday (September 22), it broke down. Typically, I close out fortuitous short positions on such swift moves, but I am projecting RIO to go a lot lower over the next … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on January 13, 2014. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip} And so it seems an analyst at FBR is longing for those days when TPH could be bought at an attractive discount. FBR downgraded the stock from buy to neutral … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on December 27, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) Twitter (TWTR) is up 22% so far in this holiday shortened week and up 41% since December 10th when the stock broke out to its first post-IPO high. TWTR has been … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on June 13, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) First Solar (FSLR) has run an “intriguing” script since making an all-time low last August… {snip} The offering of shares is of course well-timed given the run-up. With its currency this … Read more
(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are highly likely to reverse. 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 … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on February 25, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) Shortly after U.S. trading closed on Friday, February 22nd, Moody’s downgraded UK debt one notch from Aaa to Aa1 with a stable outlook. This downgrade is a natural extension of the … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on March 24, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip} The reaction to the Cyprus news was swift in financial markets starting with currency markets on that Sunday. By the end of the week, the S&P 500 (SPY) remained down … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on March 6, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) In late December, I wrote about negative sentiment growing in Apple (AAPL). Apple has fallen another 100 points since then for a 19% loss, yet, negative sentiment has not grown. In … Read more