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 March 2, 2014. Click here to read the entire piece.) “In many ways, February is the new January” so says Katie Nixon of Northern Trust. And this seems like a rational reaction to the continued failure of the January barometer to … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on November 2, 2014. Click here to read the entire piece.) “A reason pretty much always exists to be bearish on the market. It just seems that from August to October, market participants are most willing and ready to listen to and … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on November 26, 2014. Click here to read the entire piece.) As expected for this November, the S&P 500 (SPY) has continued a string of closes at fresh all-time highs. While the index is only about 2.8% above its all-time high preceding … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on August 28, 2014. Click here to read the entire piece.) The S&P 500 (SPY) has been one stubborn index. Despite so many possible catalysts to deliver for the bears, the index has bounced back from every concern. This is of course … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on March 3, 2014. Click here to read the entire piece.) With February providing the lift the S&P 500 (SPY) needed to reverse January’s losses, it is time to take a look once again at the January barometer. The big fear last … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on July 5, 2014. Click here to read the entire piece.) As I have warned on several occasions, the adage to “sell in May” and go away until the Fall is an over-simplified approach to trading around the summer months. It turns … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on January 16, 2014. Click here to read the entire piece.) On December 1, 2013, I wrote a piece called “A Potentially Low Risk Pairs Trade Opportunity Using The S&P 500” where I used PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility (SPLV) and PowerShares … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on February 1, 2014. Click here to read the entire piece.) CNBC’s “By the Numbers” recently reviewed the predictive power of the January Barometer with the following observations: “The January barometer has been right in 62 of the last 85 years, or … 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
(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