Stalking a bullish trend reversal in TLT

Initially building on the momentum of the previous session's late-day reversal, stocks moved higher throughout the first half of yesterday's session, but drifted back down and into negative territory in the afternoon. The Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.7%, the S&P 500 0.9%, and the Dow Jones...

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The Rope Limit, Redux

Sorry I haven’t written much recently.  The recent snowstorms have tossed me around, as I care for my family, and those around me.  It is amusing in a backwards way, to see Washington, DC frozen at a time when there is so much volatility in global finance.  Yo, Treasury, make sure the skeleton...

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Forecast on Spot Gold (Spot Gold, NZDUSD, USDSGD)

Spot Gold SPOT GOLD  closed @ 10633 which was BELOW the open and was within prior day's trading range. The High was 2 Dollars from Precise Trader's Res Zone 1 and the Low was PRECISELY at Precise Trader's Sup Tgt 1.   The Hourly Oscillators are MIXED and the price is Below the MA, so CAUTIOUS ...

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Forecast on JPY Crosses (EURJPY, GBPJPY, AUDJPY)

EURJPY EURJPY closed @ 12185 which was BELOW the open and was within prior day's trading range. The High was 10 pips from Precise Trader's Res Tgt 1 and the Low was 5 pips from Precise Trader's Sup Tgt 1.   The Hourly Oscillators are MIXED and the price is Below the MA, so CAUTIOUS  approach is...

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Forecast on USD Minors (USDCHF, AUDUSD, USDCAD)

USDCHF USDCHF closed @ 10735 which was ABOVE the open and was within prior day's trading range. The High was PRECISELY at Precise Trader's Res Tgt 1 and the Low was PRECISELY at Precise Trader's Sup Tgt 1.   The Hourly Oscillators are MIXED and the price is Above the MA, so CAUTIOUS  approach is...

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Trading the “January Effect”

Join Darrell Jobman, Senior Analyst for TraderPlanet.com as he conducts a webcast featuring VantagePoint Intermarket Analysis software to highlight: “As January goes, so goes the year,” according to trading lore. But how reliable is that market...  Watch video »


Trading Energy Markets in Uncertain Economic Times

Join Darrell Jobman, Senior Analyst for TraderPlanet.com as he conducts a webcast featuring VantagePoint Intermarket Analysis software to highlight: Energy price prospects depend, to a great degree, on the outlook for the global economy and the...  Watch video »


Trading Metals During Economic Uncertainty

Join Darrell Jobman, Senior Analyst for TraderPlanet.com as he conducts a live webcast featuring VantagePoint Intermarket Analysis software to highlight: Gold, silver and copper all play key roles in the outlook for economic recovery and the...  Watch video »


Trading Market Opinions with Options

Join Darrell Jobman, Senior Analyst for TraderPlanet.com as he conducts a webcast featuring VantagePoint Intermarket Analysis software to highlight: Options can be a good way to boost leverage but can also be a good way to gauge market sentiment...  Watch video »


Trading Longer-Term Indicators in Stocks

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Dow Theory Will Help You Be a Better Trader

The Dow Theory works on the fundamental principle that markets do not operate independent of one another. Like orbiting bodies in physics, markets influence one another in direct proportion to distance from another. In the case of the Dow Theory,...  Read More »


Yahoo! The Dow Theory

Finally, folks, we get to it – the Dow Theory … The first thing you need to understand is I am not big on theories that purport to predict broad-market movement. Like individual markets, the broad-market is subject to the often irrational...  Read More »


Knowledge, Actualization, and Screwing Up

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Fantasy, Reality, Magic, and Trading

Today, I wanted to tell you about the book I read on the Dow Theory for trading, but, instead, before getting into the serious topic of Charles Dow and his Theory on trading, I thought I might share with you a question that recently came to me....  Read More »


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Vivian Lewis is editor and founder of Global-Investing.com, the daily blog newsletter for Americans and others seeking to internationalize their portfolios. She brings unique experience and competences to the business of picking foreign stocks. After graduating from Harvard magna cum laude (and...

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