Will China's Growth Falter Post Olympics?
We've believed that China would have to hit a speed bump, or worse, at some point ... out of 70,000. Similarly, EconomPic argues (with charts) that: Are commodities being driven ... of commodities A spike in commodity prices hurts Chinese growth prospects Slower growth decreases [more...]
Date: 2008-07-02 16:10:10
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Learning All About Forex Charts Before You Start Trading
By Orlando Thompson In this article we will discuss the reason for using forex charts, what they are, different types of charts, ... high (like futures and commodities trading on Wall Street). Wider Forex charts and spreads means ... are strategies that some brokers use to get rid of the promise of tight Forex charts and spreads [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 08:04:30
Bespoke's Commodity Snapshot
Below we highlight our trading range charts of ten major commodities. The green shading represents two standard deviations above and below the commodity's 50-day moving average. As shown, oil continues its epic collapse along with most other commodities. Natural [more...]
Date: 2008-12-04 21:01:01
Themes of Recession and Deflation Continue to Dominate Markets
As the charts from the excellent Barchart site indicate, ... a relatively strong U.S. dollar (middle chart) and weak commodity prices (bottom chart [more...]
Date: 2008-11-30 00:20:34
Bespoke's Commodity Snapshot
After looking at equity sectors earlier, below we highlight our trading range charts for ten major commodities. The green shading represents two standard deviations above and below the commodity's 50-day moving average. Currently, the only commodity that isn't trading at or below oversold territory is gold [more...]
Date: 2008-10-13 14:16:55
Continuing With a Theme
Yesterday's thesis led to a good day of trading. This is from an earlier post, but I am adopting it as my honorary quote for the new year: ... and commodity sectors, including the following charts in particular: SD, NOV, CPX, FSLR, CLR, AMAT, MOS ... move, but the charts are less compelling those from the weekend. The overall market is looking weak [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 05:54:00
Deflation, COLA and Social Security
By Fester Mish at Global Economic Analysis is pulling some charts on basic food commodity prices. They are falling hard and fast: Judging from a broad basket of commodity prices, we are likely to see declining prices at the grocery stores in the weeks or months ahead. Lower commodity prices [more...]
Date: 2008-10-17 18:15:38
Oil Breaks Below $38; Bespoke's Commodity Snapshot
The amazing fall in oil continued this morning, with the commodity falling below $40, $39, and $38 ... . Oil1218 Below we highlight our trading range charts of ten major commodities. The green ... , and moves above this shading are considered overbought or oversold. Most commodities have staged rallies [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 15:18:11
Oil Under $60 and Gasoline Approaching $2/Gallon. Gas Guzzlers Set for a Comeback?
Commodities markets are on an even wilder roller-coaster ride than the stock market and crude oil is leading the retreat ... . The AP reports that Thursday’s hit of inter-day low of $54.67 / barrel and closed at $58.24. That there is almost 2/3rds down from the summer’s near $150 peak. TFC Commodity Charts publishes ... [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 12:21:02
Chart fun: Sugar in your coffee?
Commodities are particularly fascinating to me, as well as the relationships between them. In this chart I map out the relationship between the prices of coffee and sugar nearby futures ... futures prices* imagetitle (click to enlarge) * inflation is ignored A quick gut reaction [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 15:07:00
Indians Regain Appetite for Silver
The massive correction in silver brings back Indian buyers ... of key festivals, Dhanteras and Diwali, next week. On the continuation charts of the Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCX), silver futures MSVc1 were at 17,541 rupees per kg, close to a 13-month low [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 22:03:00
Weekly Summary 29 Dec-2 Jan 0 comments
IndicesSTI1829.71104.10(6.0%)FTSE Midcap Index370.2618.85(5.4%)FTSE Smallcap Index305.2912.26(4.2%)FTSE Fledgling Index395.287.49(1.9%) ... on the charts)PS: Charts for the new Hotstocksnot indices: Commodities, Construction, Financials ... %)Construction Index45.901.72(3.9%)Commodities Index42.583.42(8.7%)Retail Index69.461.71(2.5%)Env/Water [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 12:43:00
Traditional Forex Brokers Vs Online Broker
These days, day traders opt for online trading because of its trending nature. There a number of benefits of trading Forex online ... timely financial news, information, real-time quotes, charts etc. Coupled with the elimination ... Exchange, Commodities, etc. Source [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 01:00:48
Crosscurrents
After today's pullback, the market has relieved much of the oversold conditions and left many individual stock charts sitting on technical support. Despite today's weakness, commodity and energy names remain in intermediate-term uptrends ... the lows, in a tight ascending trading range.- OIH is providing a good entry here for a starter position [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 22:29:00
Miami QB gets OK to transfer to SEC team
After originally being forbidden to transfer to any SEC team, ... after sitting out a year if he transfers to another FBS school. Just a cursory glance of depth charts in the SEC makes Marve a hot commodity. Although his career at Miami has yet to live [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 13:05:28
Crude Oil poised to reverse
Crude Oil had a good rally last week. WTIC rallied off December low of USD35.13 to reach an intra-day high of USD50 ... commodities, Crude Oil's downtrend seems to be intact (see Chart 1 below).Chart 1: WTIC's daily chart ... on a reversal in Crude Oil prices. When this finally happens, Oil stocks would likely to receive a big boost. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 01:45:00
Commodity Day Trading - 3 Useful Tips For Traders
What does one do if one wants to achieve something in life? One charts out an action plan to reach that goal ... in commodity day trading, is successful transactions that bring huge profits. Unfortunately, many like you fail ... , it is necessary to define what exactly a commodity means.Commodity = It is any item that is offered [more...]
Date: 2008-11-08 19:16:00
U.S. Dollar Retreating Against Commodities
Like a giant laxative in the world's monetary system, the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing is starting to have an effect ... . These two are probably not rising because they are commodity currencies. The strength of commodities ... what to your wondering eyes will appear as the Fed charts its new course into the monetary wild? Well [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 12:10:00
U.S. Dollar Retreating Against Commodities
Like a giant laxative in the world's monetary system, the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing is starting to have an effect ... . These two are probably not rising because they are commodity currencies. The strength of commodities ... what to your wondering eyes will appear as the Fed charts its new course into the monetary wild? Well [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 12:10:00
U.S. Dollar Retreating Against Commodities
Like a giant laxative in the world's monetary system, the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing is starting to have an effect ... . These two are probably not rising because they are commodity currencies. The strength of commodities ... what to your wondering eyes will appear as the Fed charts its new course into the monetary wild? Well [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 12:10:00
Global Carnage In Pictures
I talked about the Sea of Red except for gold an government bonds earlier today in Treasuries and Gold Rise as Global Credit Freeze Prompts More ... Grain Futures Softs Futures Metals Futures Meat And Dairy Futures Currency Futures ... click on chart for sharper image Future Tables are Courtesy of Barchart Commodities. Government [more...]
Date: 2008-10-06 19:41:01
GOLD vs Dollar
It is a brand new year. Shrugging off the dust, let’s start the engine again. I would like to have a long term view of currencies pairs and commodities movement before ... at weekly Dollar index: dollar_index_weekly Charts generated by Market Club. Fundamental wise [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 01:11:21
Wednesday morning links
#fullpost{display:inline;}TOP STORIESFed cuts key interest rate to record low: zero to 0.25% - LA TimesBernanke Charts New Fed Course With Zero Rate, Asset Purchases - BloombergS.E.C. ... - Commodity OnlineYale endowment drops 25 pct amid financial turmoil - APECONOMYCar, home buyers could benefit [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 14:46:00
This Stink Is Going To Be With Us For Years
Happy New Year? Not so fast. Those expecting change...you're gonna get A LOT MORE of the same. As in Bull Sh*t ... this morning, and Gold and Silver have been HAMMERED. Nothing shocking there. Check the seasonal charts ... "wealth" has been threatened with destruction by the collapse in commodity prices. Does Russia "create [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 13:00:00
E-Futures International
E-Futures International 3.2.0.4 download Free commodity futures trading software with live quotes and charts [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 18:52:59
The New Commodity Bull
Just when the central banks of the world are deluding themselves with the idea that inflation is under control, commodity prices are surging much higher once again.Soybeans (other grains have similar charts) - up 30% over the past monthCrude Oil - up 40% in 7 trading sessions. Crude has touched $50/barrel [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 11:14:00
Gold & Silver
From BespokeThe first two charts below are our trading range charts for gold and silver ... gone straight up, as almost all commodities except for gold have seen big declines due to deleveraging [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 05:00:00
Oil recouples
Basic supply and demand economics maintain that as prices fall, demand increases, but to what extent? The effect on oil, for one, will be negligible, according to the commodities team at Merrill Lynch ... growth -- also becoming a negative number (see the charts below).... [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 10:43:27
A Few Morning Charts
Just a quickie post this morning of a few interesting charts I saw this morning. First is DBA, which agrees with my view that commodities are approaching a rollover point. A look at major individual commodities also shows them at meaningful resistance levels. Here [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 15:22:21
History Suggests Gordon Will Not Survive This Recession
The major 5 UK recessions of the 20th Century were 1920-21, 1929-33, 1973-75, 79-82 & 1989-1991 ... and rocketing commodity prices. This caused queues at petrol stations, rolling cutbacks in electricity ... . The first chart below shows the historical data for GDP output from 1970 to the 3rdQ 2008 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 01:12:20
Tuesday Trades
The long T-bond trade seems to go bust much like the short oil trade did earlier today and Friday. I have a very tight stop on my TLT position ... at the charts my sense is that money is rotating into the inflation trade with Agriculture and Commodity [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 05:09:02
How Long Will Recession Last? The Commodity Bottom, Dirty Dividends, iPod Index, and More!
by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias Drama in the details… predicting 2009 recession with 1929 charts Forget the market and GDP… the real ... goes furthest, below Frank Holmes on the commodity “inflection point” and how to buy in coming [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 20:34:27
Sunday Morning Coffee: Fish Finders?
Click charts to ENLARGE.Keywords: Stock market, investing, technical analysis, Bill Cara, point-and-figure charting."Feed a man a fish.. ... (although I'm not sure how to invest there). The two commodities that have historically risen ... are always closed in pictures. Laura, CEO-elect of BJs doesn't care about charts [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 12:28:00
Burger King (BK) falls after Q4 earnings on disappointing margins
Burger King (BK) falls after Q4 earnings on disappointing margins Posted Aug 21st 2008 1:22PM by Brent Archer Filed under: Major movement, ... to 13.1 percent in the quarter, hurt largely by higher commodity costs like more expensive beef ... :21, BKC is trading at $26.03, down $1.42 (-5.2%). The chart for BKC looks neutral and S&P gives [more...]
Date: 2008-08-21 17:35:07
Stocks in Europe, Asia Decline, Led by Banks; U.S. Futures Fall
By Adam Haigh Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) — Stocks in Europe and Asia declined for a second day, ... analysts who study charts of trading patterns. Stocks in Europe and futures on the S&P 500 recouped ... led by commodity producers and financial companies on concern the deepening recession will erode [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 13:44:57
Find me a bull market?
While the S&P, Dow, Nasdaq and Russell run around the playground and ride the see-saw, ... at HeadlineCharts there are four 28-year charts; one shows the past 25-year rally in bond prices, another ... , while the last for the Commodity Research Bureau (CRB) displays recent fear but also a level [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 16:15:06
Switched My Main Broker to Questrade
(This article originally appeared on The DIV-Net) ... was commissions. In my opinion, online brokers offer a commodity. What you get from one broker is very ... A few days ago one of my colleagues over at the DIV-Net wrote about online brokerages and using [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 11:00:29
Chart Patterns - Canadian Natural Resource Ltd (USA) (NYSE:CNQ); NQ Futures
$USD weakness is an invitation to long commodities. I went long CNQ.Long on a break of a inverted H&S bottom. After the measured move of the pattern, CNQ slipped back below R2 and I took a partial [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 02:26:00
Daily Report for Mon, Oct 27, 2008
The crisis in global equity, commodity and currency markets worsened overnight ... ) as an indicator. US equity futures have come off their earlier lows. ADDENDUM Links & Charts ... is sinking as are prices on the European bourses; the US equity markets may open with futures locked [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 10:13:05
A Critical Day For Commodities - A Look At Wheat, Aluminum, & Copper
A Critical Day For Commodities - A Look At Wheat, Aluminum, & Copper Posted December 5th, 2008 by Epiphany Investing Basic Materials Alcoa aluminum charts copper Freeport front month futures market mosaic Potash Corp technical analysis Read the full article: http [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 21:15:04
Chart Patterns - Canadian Natural Resource Ltd (USA) (NYSE:CNQ); NQ Futures
$USD weakness is an invitation to long commodities. I went long CNQ. Long on a break of a inverted H&S bottom. After the measured move of the pattern, CNQ slipped back below R2 and I took [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 03:00:29
The great bull market of 2009 ?
Wow, hard to really take a break, getting so many emails asking me to even post "less".Ok, here is a quick look at the S&P 500 index chart ... ".Traders/investors tend to be attracted to round numbers as key psychological "entry/exit" levels.If ... to Central Africa to visit some commodity related companies. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 08:48:00
Back to the Future - Commodities Rule Again
I feel like I've fallen asleep and someone transported me back to about 9 months... the whole gang is back! ... positions are being taken back to the future by HAL. The charts above are why I say it makes zero sense for you to spend even 1 minute of research in commodity stocks. In the new hedge fund era of the past [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 20:14:41
NO GRAMMY FOR MARVIN SAPP?: Grammy Awards official explains the reason ‘Never Would Have Made It’ wasn’t nominated.
*A Brooklyn street vendor is standing in 30 degree weather peddling Hip Hop mix tapes and DVDs from a six-foot table ... -Elect Barack Obama was to politics, a phenomenon. As one of the hottest musical commodities of 2008 ... has had. The record-breaking track spent over 40 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s gospel radio charts, successfully [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 04:00:39
Bullish Percent Index, Flashing Warning Signs
The NYSE Bullish Percent Index (BPNYA) has gone from 'holy shit, the world is going to end tomorrow' territory straight back into 'don't worry, ... long plays today, but still hold at least half of all my commodity plays. As mentioned early today ... numbers:1) The number of NYSE stocks which has "buy signals" on their Point and Figure charts. (P&F [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 21:00:00
Atlanta Real Estate Recovery
Recession is Official: Let’s Chart the Recovery Post 1 of 3 in the Atlanta Real Estate Recovery series (energy, housing, credit) ... a higher demand for all commodities: Oil, Metals, etc. So as oil prices grew at staggering rates, speculation began to take place in the form of long positions on oil futures that pushed the price [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 12:00:31
What Say Currencies, Credit & Commodities Markets?
After a posting a 3% gain on Jan 2, the second trading day of the year was a dud for stocks ... before, big moves in currencies, commodities and credit markets will LEAD the equities. Let us try to figure out what is happening. Click all the links for charts. US Dollar is back above 20 DMA [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 23:06:08
Any Site On Which I Can Do Tech Analysis Instantaneously 4 Intraday Trading.BSE NSE No Use Yaool Late 20 Mts?
In order to do technical analysis for day trading I want to have web site that provides real time charts and host of technical indicators to work on ... for the time being and not in futures or derivatives or forex or commodities. Many thanks [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 23:31:51
Web Analytics Data is already a Commodity
Last week, while I was at Emetrics Marketing Optimization Summit in Alexandra, VA, Avinash Kaushik presented the new features of Google Analytics, ... to all historical data is pretty sweet. On the upside, I was actually pretty surprised about Motion Charts ... to agree with Yahoo’s Dennis Mortensen that Motion Charts have potential. I especially like [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 23:47:30
Sunday Morning Crumbs
Click charts to ENLARGE. No doubt that the big money comes from holding a trending, winning position, rather than trading ... that among the BRIC house (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) the short-term winners are the commodity ... see how much follow-through we get today. Good trading and great risk management [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 13:27:11
