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 August 27, 2014. Click here to read the entire piece.) McDonald’s (MCD) has struggled recently, and the Wall Street Journal thinks it has found someone to blame in millennials. Millennials are the current group of young people coming of age in … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on November 21, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) You know it must be a good year in the stock market when a soup and food products company can deliver 11% gains year-to-date. Unfortunately for Campbell Soup (CPB), its 11% … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on August 13, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) If there was any time for Teucrium Corn (CORN) to finally bounce, Monday (August 12, 2013) was it. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced its projection for record corn … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on July 1, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) Last summer, America’s corn fields were plagued by drought. The conditions were dire across the U.S. at historic proportions. From the U.S. Drought Monitor July 25, 2012: {snip} At the time, … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on February 18, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) Traders sometimes copy the trading in options showing unusual trading activity under the assumption that someone (or some people) have privileged insight into an imminent big event or the short-term price … Read more