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. Click here to read the entire piece.) I have not updated my “sentiment” analysis on gold in nine months…{snip}…I think this is a great time to take a fresh look. {snip}…I use Google Trends on the terms “buy gold” and “sell gold” … 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.) T2108 Status: 69%. VIX Status: 17.5. General (Short-term) Trading Call: Hold. Continue identifying new shorts. Commentary OK. Now the stock market is teasing and tantalizing us. T2108 closed at 69% for … Read more
July has continued a healthy recovering from the June lows for many stocks. However, some stocks have remained stuck in stock market purgatory. Today’s chart review shows two examples of this dichotomy. The extra bonus is that the stock in recovery mode, Caterpillar (CAT), has apparently topped while the stock stuck in purgatory, LDK Solar … 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.) T2108 Status: 69%. VIX Status: 17.6. General (Short-term) Trading Call: Hold. Start identifying new shorts. Commentary I am pretty surprised to see T2108 right back to the edge of overbought levels. … 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.) T2108 Status: 59%. VIX Status: 19.0. General (Short-term) Trading Call: Hold. Commentary T2108 inched closer to overbought territory moving from 56% to 59%. The S&P 500 closed flat. An unexciting day. … Read more