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The Trend Trader For Stock Trading on Monday, March 22, 2010
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite stocks. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling weakness. Before...
9 Dividend Stocks Building Future Yield
Having narrowly missed the tech bubble bursting, I purchased my first dividend stock on December 11, 2003. I had heard dividend investments were supposed to be safer, but knew very little else about the strategy. I was fortunate enough to accidentally buy enough good dividend stocks to learn the...
Chart Presentation: Following the Trend Lines
If we argue in favor of U.S. dollar strength we are, in fact, suggesting that other currencies will be weaker. In other words the dollar doesn’t have to be strong as long as the currencies that it is priced against are declining. March 18 (Bloomberg) — The euro weakened for a second day against...
Stock Market: Inside Day of mild consolidation. Industrial Stock Sector stood out on the upside.
Stock Market: Inside Day of mild consolidation. Industrial Stock Sector stood out on the upside. Industrial Stock Sector Relative Strength Ratio (XLI/SPY) rose further above 16-month highs and remains bullish. Absolute price of XLI moved above 17-month highs and remains bullish. . . . . . . . ....
The Daily Grind
Daily State of the Markets Friday Morning - March 19, 2010 Although the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been a laggard recently, it appears to have shifted into catch-up mode this week. While the rest of the major indices stumbled around a bit on Thursday, the venerable market index managed...
A fixed-income (bond) ETF poised for breakout
Failing to immediately follow through on the previous afternoon's weakness, the major indices meandered through yesterday's listless session before finishing with mixed results. Stocks opened flat, then chopped around in a sideways range throughout the entire day. Showing a bit of relative...
Marc Faber: We have a new gold standard
The markets have created their own gold standard because of uncertainties regarding other asset classes, Marc Faber, author of The Gloom, Boom and Doom Report, told CNBC on Thursday. “I think we already now have a gold standard … created by the market place. We have the exchange traded funds...
Technical Talk: One last move up
The comments below were provided by Kevin Lane of Fusion IQ. We remain cautiously optimistic with the trend up, internals strong, the Russell 2000, the NASDAQ and now the S&P 500 at new recovery highs. Skeptics remain the loudest people in the room and while their concerns may be valid we have...
The Trend Trader For Stock Trading on Friday, March 19, 2010
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite stocks. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling weakness. Before...
On Credit & Equity
Jake at Econompic Data had a good post on credit and equity. (He runs a good site generally.) They are correlated, but not all of the time. As I commented: When yields are low, equities thrive because financing costs are low. When the defaults come, future equity returns are low, because...
Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) Signals Possible Top With Candle Formation. (NYSE:TM)
Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) is forming what could be a tell tale sign of a top on the daily chart. The candle formation is known as a possible topping tail. A topping tail occurs when a stock runs up intra day early and then pulls back later in the day. It creates a long tail on the top and a...
U.S. Dollar Bull Index (UUP) pulls back to support - March 18
After gapping higher on the open, stocks continued building on their initial gains through the first half of the day. By early afternoon, the major indices were trading nearly 1% higher, but selling pressure in the final ninety minutes of trading caused the broad market to surrender...
Chart Presentation: Trend Shift
The combination of additional easing from the Bank of Japan and the Fed’s commitment to hold interest rates at current levels for an extended period of time helped lift global equity and commodity prices. Our view is that the Fed’s use the phrase ‘extended period’ is a bit of a misnomer. More...
All About the Calendar
Daily State of the Markets Thursday Morning - March 18, 2010 In a fitting tribute to St. Patrick, the screens were adorned in green when the closing bell rang on Wednesday as the market worked its way higher for the 13th time in the last 15 sessions. Even the Dow Jones Industrial Average...
