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]. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page.) T2108 Status: 39% and Neutral General Trading Call: Cover a few shorts, identify a few longs, otherwise hold. Commentary T2108 dripped down to 39% and is now officially within my downside … 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.) T2108 Status: 41% and Neutral General Trading Call: Hold. Commentary T2108 plunged to 41%, essentially hitting my downside target range of 30-40% when it dipped to 39% and change at one … Read more
The dollar index gained 0.75% on Friday as another phase of fears of Greece sent folks out the euro and into U.S. dollars. The 50-day moving average (DMA) has held as near-perfect support but Friday’s move has the shape of a bounce looking for follow-through. *Charts created using TeleChart: Follow-through from here, like a new … 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.) T2108 Status: 51% and Neutral General Trading Call: Hold. Commentary T2108 dropped back to 51%, suggesting that a trip to the 30-40% range remains in sight over the next week or … 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.) T2108 Status: 54% and Neutral General Trading Call: Hold. Commentary T2108 jumped 7.5 percentage points from yesterday’s 46% level. As expected, conditions were ripe for a bounce given T2108 had dropped … 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.) T2108 Status: 46% and Neutral General Trading Call: Cover some shorts. Commentary T2108 is just below April’s low of 47%. Given the S&P 500 is straddling critical support at the 50DMA … 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.) T2108 Status: 50% and Neutral General Trading Call: Hold. Commentary T2108 is approaching its lows from last month while the S&P 500 remains above its 50DMA and 2.7% away from retesting … 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.) T2108 Status: 55% and Neutral General Trading Call: Hold. Commentary T2108 dropped 9 percentage points to 55% as the S&P 500 dropped 0.8%. So far, the index is holding the first … Read more
Trading Around May – One-Twenty (by Dr. Duru) So, whether or not you care about "sell in May" depends on your objectives and investing/trading style. But this adage is held so widely and so strongly, there must be something more to it. I decided to look at May from a different perspective. I decided to … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) In my last piece on Research In Motion (RIMM), I described the details from the company’s conference call warning on this quarter’s earnings…RIMM barely paused to take in the scenery at the October lows. The stock … Read more