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Exchanges Getting Heated in Sino-American Relations
By: Lee VecchioneThis weekend, Premier Wen Jiabao gave his annual news conference where he continued his increasingly defiant tone again the west and criticism of U.S. economic policies. In my report, I discussed the growing threat of China becoming a net seller of U.S. Treasury securities in...
Another Buyable Pullin
By: Scott RedlerAs the market maneuvers in a semi-chaotic fashion this year, our mantra has been to trade it. So, when we came in today, we pointed out the ascending channel that typically gets resolved to the downside (descending channels typically resolve to the upside). With the action of the...
Swing Trader’s Insight Futures Watch List for March 15
Chinese PM Wen had an interesting speech. He said China welcomes overseas investors, and wants to create an environment to foster it. At the same time, it sounds like Google is going to close its Chinese search engine. There have been a number of wire stories overnight talking about China...
A Different Kind of Plastic
By: Scott Redler Recently the plastic was the credit card sector, this week it's the casinos. There is a big conference this week focusing on the fundamentals of the casino sector. Technically, all three major casino stocks that we have traded for the past year look ready to move AGAIN!!Wynn...
Bio-Boom
By: Pej HamidiWhy fight it? The Biotech Index is in all time high territory, as if 2008 and its fallout year, 2009, were just mere blemishes on this chart's rise to astronomical levels. The chart displayed here is a monthly 5-year chart of the BTK. I've overlaid a Fib. Projection grid, which are...
Google Pulling Out of China
US futures are basically flat after global markets were down marginally to flat.Google says its 99.9% sure it'll pull out of China. GOOG is down almost 2% on the news while BIDU continues its meteoric run up another 25 points this morning. If this morning's gap up holds, BIDU will be up 40%...
Elliot Talking Berkshire on TheStreet.com
By: T3LiveRecently, Elliot was quoted by TheStreet.com discussing the implications of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) splitting the "B" shares and its implications for the value of the company. This article originally was published on February 5th; however the key points all remain valid today. Here...
Equities Spend the Week Consolidating
Equities spent the week in a very tight range with the Dow gaining a marginal 58 points. The S&P 500 eked out new highs for the current rally closing the week exactly at previous highs of 1,150. The price action showed strength in equities as stocks hovered below the 2009 highs not encountering...
Reliving the Stock Rotation in this Upswing
By: Brandon Rowley I had not been trading with much success for 2010 until the end of February. I was not losing money but I would just manage to give back anything I made. Shorts just never traded lower within my timeframe or risk tolerance and longs were choppy and difficult. Such is the life...
Peer Pressure, or Acceptance vs. Rejection in the Futures Markets
There are many interesting parallels to the Taylor Technique and Market Profile. One of the concepts that I find useful for both is the idea of acceptance or rejection of prices. A rally indicates acceptance of higher prices; a top and reversal indicates that traders rejected higher prices. ...
Stocks Poised to Continue Rally; Demand for Risk Weakens Dollar
Retail Sales just came out bullish. Equity markets are soaring. Bonds are breaking. The Dollar is plunging. The market reads this report as good. The key will be to be able to separate the report from the trade. The question is will U.S. investors chase equity market higher or wait for a...
Swing Trader’s Insight Futures Watch List for March 12
Chinese consumer confidence rose in February (the things we watch these days!), however Chinese stocks were lower overnight on worries that the government may move more firmly to contain inflation. A research report from Citibank said that the Chinese may need to bail out banks that made loans...
No Time to Get Excited Now!
By: Scott Redler The time to get excited was February 5th when the market staged an outside reversal WITH volume! Then, on the week of February 26th the market absorbed a huge amount of bad news and held firmly. Further confirmation happened when the market broke out of a bullish wedge on March...
U.S. Equity Markets Expected To Open Weaker This Morning
U.S. equity markets are expected to open weaker this morning but off their lows. Last night’s news that China’s inflation was higher than expected, fueled speculation of a rate hike which helped drive down demand for higher yielding assets. The lack of follow-though to the downside has...
Euro Building Support Base for Potential Upside Breakout
The U.S. Dollar was mixed in light trading at the close in an unusual day as the normal correlations between the Dollar, gold and equities at times were not working. The lack of major U.S. economic reports this week is still influencing the trade although this will change with Thursday’s Weekly...
