ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
In “How To Estimate Intraday Moves For The S&P 500 Using The Australian Dollar“, I quantified the relationship between the Australian dollar and the S&P 500 on an intraday basis. However, I did not provide any charts demonstrating the relationships. The chart below tracks the intraday relationships between SPY as a proxy for the S&P … Read more
In numerous posts I have described the intriguingly consistent and profitable relationship between the Australian dollar (FXA) and the S&P 500 (for example, see “A Hypothesis for the Connection Between the Australian Dollar and the S&P 500“). In recent weeks, I have also noticed periodic patterns in the way the Australian dollar trades versus the … 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: 18.9% (Oversold day #1, … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on May 7, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) After the S&P 500 (SPY) dropped as much as 0.4% on Monday, April 30, 2012, I decided to take a shot at trading what seemed to be the double whammy of … 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