ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
Almost a month ago, I made the case for buying some Best Buy (BBY) stock as it retested its 2009 lows. BBY proceeded to rally 5%, break to marginal new lows in early September, break those lows on an intraday basis after reporting apparently disappointing earnings, and now a fresh rally. The post-earnings rally has … Read more
On Thursday, September 15, investors and traders dumped Netflix (NFLX) on news that the company will lose 600,000 subscribers this quarter compared to the previous quarter. In 12 years, NFLX has now suffered a quarter-over-quarter loss in subscribers only twice. This occurrence represents a 2.4% reduction in customers. (For more details see AP story “Higher … Read more
(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag.) T2108 Status: 38% VIX Status: 32 General (Short-term) Trading Call: Hold. Commentary T2108 closed at 38%. It has not … Read more
(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag.) T2108 Status: 30% VIX Status: 35 General (Short-term) Trading Call: Hold. Commentary T2108 jumped almost 5 percentage points to … Read more
This chart review pairs an ugly chart with a blooming one. Japan’s Nikkei stock market index made very little additional progress after the sharp and rapid bounce from the March lows marked a crescendo of panic over the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe. On five separate days, the Nikkei survived tests of the closing lows from … Read more