ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
For this chartfest, I do not have time to provide extensive commentary. So, this is mostly a visual presentation of the charts with some labels or notes to point your attention to what I think is most interesting from a trading perspective. Feel free to post questions if anything is not clear. Enjoy…! I have … Read more
This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on January 22, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip} Seven months later, Facebook has tried to demonstrate that it is actively inventing new ways to keep its users engaged and monetized. For the last two months, the market has … Read more
Earnings announcements are supposed to reveal the fundamental strength (or weakness) in a company. The reaction to those earnings should indicate the underlying fundamentals of a company. Yet, there is no time like earnings where the contrast between the true fundamentals of a company and market sentiment can clash in the most dramatic fashion. Case … Read more
The market continues to throw up a lot of interesting charts, particularly on the bullish side. This chart review takes a quick look at Shutterfly (SFLY), BlackBerry (BBRY), Weight Watchers (WTW), Peabody Energy (BTU), and the Australian dollar (AUD/USD or FXA). SFLY just reported earnings, and the market clearly loved it. The stock printed a … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on December 8, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) On November 8, 2012, Groupon (GRPN) reported earnings that disappointed the market. The following day the stock fell a stomach-churning 30% to fresh all-time lows. A week later, on November 15th, … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on December 6, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) The Amazon.com post-earnings trade ended down for this final quarter of the year. It was a rare miss that included some important moves in the stock. The chart below shows 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 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 October 29, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) “If Amazon were an ordinary company, investors would long ago have strapped its management to a rocket ship and sent it far, far away.” From “Amazon and Its Admirers Shrug Off … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on October 22, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip} Google (GOOG) GOOG was a stock that had a lot of momentum off the summer lows although it still trailed the NASDAQ (QQQ) year-to-date. Ironically, GOOG finally caught up to … Read more
Suddenly, I have to take an acquisition of Netflix (NFLX) a little more seriously. At the end of October, iconic deal shaker and maker Carl Icahn disclosed an almost 10% stake of 5,541,066 shares in Netflix (NFLX), indicating HE thinks NFLX is deal-making material. From the filing under “Purpose of Transaction”: “The Reporting Persons acquired … Read more