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 on August 12, 2015. Click here to read the entire piece.) I was just getting ready to think through my latest piece on the Australian dollar (FXA) as a story about the currency’s resiliency likely thanks to an on-going rebound in price … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on July 8, 2015. Click here to read the entire piece.) Against my previous expectations, the Australian dollar (FXA) continues to shrink. First the Chinese government panicked with successive rate cuts and next direct manipulation in its stock markets. Now it seems … Read more
It turned out that technicals were indeed all I needed to follow for trading Memorial Production Partners (MEMP). As I described in an earlier piece, I successfully navigated a trade in MEMP by closing out my position and locking out profits after a break of support at the 50-day moving average (DMA). It was purely … Read more
It was an awful week for oil-related plays as oil’s price continued to drop and one energy company after another, including the titans Exxon(XOM) and Chevron (CVX), failed to provide investors much in the way of reassurance. This calamity was quite a contrast to the much higher optimism from earnings just three months ago. The … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on July 28, 2015. Click here to read the entire piece.) When I last wrote about the Australian dollar (FXA), it was wavering at the 0.74 support level against the U.S. dollar. More importantly, market expectations for an August rate cut from … Read more