ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
At the time of writing, currency markets opened trading this week with Brexit fear continuing to recede in the form of a big gap in favor of the British pound (FXB). Google Trends shows that on Friday, search interest in Brexit took a big step back (down 17%). This move confirms the apparent change in … Read more
Two days ago I defined and described the case for a blow-off top in SPDR Gold Shares (GLD). Speculators have provided a confirmation of a top, yet there is now a caveat based on GLD’s ability to comeback a bit on Friday (June 17th). After pulling back the reins for three weeks on net longs … 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
In early May, 2016, the SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) hit a new 15-month high. At that time, I considered the prospects for a blow-off top in GLD. I concluded that a top had not yet arrived but would likely come “sometime” over the horizon. I used Google Trends, one of my favorite tools for analyzing … Read more
The U.S. Federal Reserve failed to hike rates in its June policy meeting just as expected. More importantly, the Fed left alone its projection of the appropriate policy path for 2016 at 0.9%. The Fed trimmed its expectation for 2017 from 1.9% to 1.6% and slashed 2018 from 3.0% to 2.4%. The “long run” dropped … Read more