ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
As I watched the U.S. dollar swiftly reverse course after some early post-employment numbers strength, I concluded that this was the final confirmation I needed that the dollar is going much lower from here. I made a point to review my list of commodity charts and then did a quick check of EWZ, the iShares … Read more
While the general stock market just keeps crawling steadily upward, individual stocks continue to produce some very interesting, and very tradable charts. For example, over the past several months, I have been able to identify many valuable breakouts as well as some breakdowns. The three charts in this post are not directly related, but I … Read more
The iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund ETF (EWZ) broke out in early September, 2010 from an important downtrend pattern. At the time, I lamented that I missed the move because I was still playing the strategy of waiting for a 20% correction in EWZ before making a purchase. On Friday, EWZ completed a roundtrip from … Read more
Looks like the days of buying EWZ after a 20% correction and waiting out the recovery may be coming to an end for now. Last week, the Brazil Index Fund ETF, EWZ, broke out above a nine-month long downtrend. *Chart created using TeleChart: This is a very bullish development and opens up the prospect of … Read more
The extended downtrend in the Brazilian ETF, EWZ, remains intact. In particular, over the past 10 months, EWZ has made lower highs and lower lows. The gap up in the beginning of August marked the end of the last rally as it was stopped cold at the resistance from the downtrend line. The weekly chart … Read more