ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
(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
While the general market churns, individual stocks continue to tell unique stories with good trading opportunities. In this chart review, I look at recent developments in Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), Priceline.com (PCLN), Siemens (SI), and Facebook (FB). Apple (AAPL) AAPL’s technicals continue worsening. On Thursday, October 11, AAPL printed a bearish engulfing pattern that essentially … Read more
It had to be too good to be true – Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg able to “motivate” his stock upward and out from the ashes of a post-IPO disaster. On Monday, September 25th, FB got hit by a bearish Barron’s article pegging Facebook’s value at $15/share. The stock subsequently crumbled under the pressure to … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on August 14, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) Netflix (NFLX) is a classic bear/bull battleground stock. Depending on your mood, you can be convinced by the bullish or the bearish arguments. {snip} In the near-term, I think the biggest … Read more
Nine days and counting. That is how many trading days have passed without Facebook (FB) marking fresh post-IPO lows. For twelve trading days, nothing but negativity swirled around the FB IPO. It was if the company itself were about to go bankrupt – taking all 900 million users with it. On May 31st, I pointed … Read more