ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
The start of 2014’s first full week of trading did not disappoint. There were fireworks to be found in all sorts of individual stocks. I am only covering three in this chart review: Twitter (TWTR), Apple (AAPL), and LinkedIn (LNKD). TWTR gapped down on Monday (January 6, 2014) forming a more definitive formation of the … 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 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 are … Read more
I thought I was done posting for the year but two breakouts have my attention this morning. I decided to do a quick post even though trading has not yet closed for the day. NQ Mobile (NQ) caught my attention in late October when it plunged an incredible 63% on no company news, just a … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on December 23, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip} MODN started publicly trading in March of this year, but it did not catch my attention until it fell a gut-wrenching 32% on September 10th after a disastrous update on … Read more
A week ago, I wrote “Simple Reasons to Like IBM Despite the Headwinds.” As I feared/suspected at the time, sellers stepped in at an important resistance level. In four quick days, International Business Machines (IBM) dropped like a rock and retested presumed support from the announced expansion of the buyback. I thought I would have … Read more