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. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip} Tonight, RIMM disappointed traders and investors once again with its latest earnings report. This time, it was not an outright miss on overall earnings or revenue guidance. {snip} Alas, RIMM built up enough expectations … Read more
Finally, Research In Motion (RIMM) is performing better than the general market. For the last two weeks, RIMM has trended upward relative to the QQQ (PowerShares QQQTrust for big-cap technology stocks). This has not happened all year. More importantly, the stock has finally jumped above the 50-day moving average (DMA). Granted, such a breakout has … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) ReneSola (SOL) went from a tremendous 2010 – gaining 84% and as much as 206% – to a complete collapse in 2011. On the heels of several disappointing earnings reports this year, SOL has dropped … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) In July, I used ideas from Jeremy Grantham to lay out a case for taking advantage of a coming “commodities crash” to invest in and prepare for a future resource-constrained world: “Preparing for Profits in … Read more
(Click here for archived articles on RIMM) Research in Motion (RIMM) has been able to buy back its shares under the current repurchase authority since July 11. The stock opened up that day and proceeded to close down 3.2%. The stock has drifted down 16.6% since then. During this time, I identified a technical pattern … Read more