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 May 9, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) In November of last year, I identified M.D.C Holdings, Inc (MDC) as my second favorite pick for homebuilders for 2013. The main attraction was the sharp drop in short interest in … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on July 27, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) Amazon.com’s (AMZN) last three earnings cycles were quite challenging for the AMZN post-earnings trade. As a reminder, the AMZN post-earnings strategy is simply to buy the post-earnings open and hold for … 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
Baidu (BIDU) A little over a month ago I advised that traders watch the volume on Baidu (BIDU). I showed the history of false breakouts and of breakdowns on high volume. The bad news is that June’s breakout redux failed and led to false hopes once again that BIDU could finally end its 2-year slide. … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on April 29, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) Meritage Homes Corp (MTH) is up 38% since I made it my #1 homebuilder stock for 2013. The stock is up 32% year-to-date. Too bad part of my investment strategy for … Read more