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 September 23, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) Over a month ago, I claimed that First Solar (FSLR) is just a trading stock, meaning that sentiment would primarily drive the stock and both bears and bulls would find great … Read more
Earlier in the day, I tweeted: Finally time to short $USDCAD. At 50DMA and a 2-week post-QE3 relief rally seems “long enough” For two weeks since the Federal Reserve announced QE3, the dollar index has had a nice relief rally. Notice that the dollar index has hit its first test at the 20-day moving average … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on September 12, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) In one more day, the Federal Reserve announces its next decision on monetary policy. In anticipation, the dollar (UUP) has traded lower and lower. The Australian dollar (FXA) has been one … 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
The stocks market’s slow action hides all sorts of dramatic action in individual stocks. For this chart review, I take a look at a range of performers. Google (GOOG) has broken out to fresh five-year highs. First Solar (FSLR) has more than doubled since its June lows. Baidu (BIDU) has sold off for over a … Read more
As the stock market gains new momentum, interesting charts are bound to appear everywhere. Priceline.com (PCLN) and Baidu (BIDU) are two of many with interesting post-earnings patterns. I covered the post-earnings set-up on priceline.com (PCLN) on August 11th (see “Priceline Not Likely to Recover Post-Earnings Losses In the Near-Term“). PCLN never closed below the critical … 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-related trades and other trades are posted on twitter using the #120trade hashtag) T2108 Status: 70.3% (first day day … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on August 10, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip}…The chart below represents all of YELP’s trading history to-date. Source: FreeStockCharts.com The chart cannot show the magnitude of the trading volume given the large distortion from the first day of … 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-related trades and other trades are posted on twitter using the #120trade hashtag) T2108 Status: 74.5% (sixth day of … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on July 29, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) I started with a bullish strategy to trade the British pound against the U.S. dollar (FXB) after fiscal and monetary authorities rallied to airlift more liquidity into the economy. It worked … Read more