ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
Apple (AAPL) finished its first post-split week in disappointing fashion. Sure a sell on the news reaction should have been expected, but the strong trade going into the split, right through the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), produced some hope AAPL could hold its own. Apple even entered the week featuring a dramatic shift in trading … Read more
Just ahead of the start of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), I wrote that I was preparing for a change in Apple’s trading patterns that would impact the Apple Trading Model (ATM). My main interest was in the coming 7-to-1 stock split and the potential for retail traders leaving options alone to trade directly … Read more
Trading in Apple is likely to make a notable change in the coming weeks and months. The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) begins June 2nd. According to my analysis of trading around the WWDC since 2000, traders treat this event as a “buy the rumor, sell the news” kind of event (see “Buy The Rumor, … 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
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on May 5, 2014. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip} This quote is from a piece I wrote in early March titled “Apple’s Post-Earnings Buyback Fails To Sway Growing Negative Sentiment In The Stock.” At that time, I was wringing … Read more