ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
Another May and another horror show for the stock market. Excluding today’s oversold bounce currently underway, the S&P 500 (SPY) is down 5.7% for the month. The index was down as much as 7.1% last week. The chart below shows that these numbers are extreme even for a month that causes so much fear and … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on May 3, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) It is that time of year again when traders try to predict whether this year’s summer cycle will compel them to dump stocks in May only to return in the Fall. … 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: 32% VIX Status: 18.8% … 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: 55% VIX Status: 15.7% … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip} Now that May, 2011 has closed down 1.4%, it seems like a good time to take yet another perspective on May’s legendary selling. This time I wondered whether May’s performance says anything about trading for … Read more