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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Markets and timeframes for price distribution charting
Have a trading related question? Submit it here. I received a set of questions following on my How to identify price targets for your trades post ... ? What about commodity markets like mini gold futures etc ? What about applying this method on US stock markets ... , like Nikkei or even Singapore’s small futures market, the SIMSCI futures. What I would [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 14:00:44
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
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
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
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
Commodity Snapshot
Judging by the way that commodities prices have literally been “drawn and quartered” since July, ... intervention by way of shorting gold in the futures market. Either way, given the sheer amount ... at these charts: Dollar Premium Platinum vs. gold %-age Premium Platiinum vs. Gold Platinum, which [more...]
Date: 2008-10-26 15:04:13
The USD and Backwardation.
(Chart from SharpCharts - Click on image to enlarge) The USD has had a great run, but now it looks very toppy to me ... . Backwardation in basic commodities happens frequently, but this is the first time since 1999, briefly ... of Gold is higher than the nearest futures contract. Some would define “backwardation” as the cash price [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 04:09:13
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
5L Virtual Portfolio: Short India Cements
During 2008, I posted a bunch of articles on why I was bearish on real estate in India - especially residential 2/3 BHK apartments in Tier I and II ... , there are no cement futures traded on any commodity exchange in India. There are also no sector-specific ... dropped from their peaks in India, while most other commodities have tanked - locally & [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 04:39:57
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
BEST STOCK MARKET BLOG POSTS OF 2008! (Clean version)
Dancing on the grave of 2008 before it has officially passed may be in poor taste, but did 2008 care about you when it fucked your 401k account? NO ... is what makes this post special.Daily Options Report - "Who Has That Box Of Plus-Ticks?" Adam speculates ... discusses how changing the rule close to an options expiration creates the maximum market [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 01:10:00
Noontime markets update
The markets are having a very bad day today. After we saw the Europeans were also vulnerable to this credit crisis, stock markets worldwide sold off, ... of increased volatility include VIX, LIBOR-OIS Spread, and the TED Spread. European currencies ... Bovespa Plunges 10 Percent, Trading Halted; Vale Sinks - Bloomberg Mexico's Peso Plummets to Record [more...]
Date: 2008-10-06 16:13:35
Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan
Dear CIGAs, As expected, the return of a larger number of traders to New York this morning saw the return of the usual selling gang which had been missing in action on Friday of last week. Gold had risen sharply in overnight trading before ... . Gold is however trading solidly above its 100 day moving average on the continuous daily price chart [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 18:36:00
Profiting from Bernanke's Super-Fed & Obama's Newer Deal
The historic wealth destruction of 2008 was obviously deflationary. Defaults strip away wealth. Institutions respond by selling assets to raise capital. Widespread deleveraging leads to supply expansion in assets and contraction in money and credit. Deflation. Nevertheless, the response has been unprecedented in its own merit [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 17:55:00
DrumBeat: June 5, 2008
Beyond gasoline: Prices surge for oil-based goods New York - Besides gasoline, the Department of Energy calculates, there are 57 major uses of petroleum – everything from cosmetics to ballpoint pens, nylons, and even the waxes in chewing gum. That is why the effect of high oil prices is now spreading well beyond the pump, [more...]
Date: 2008-06-05 13:07:25
Some rumblings on Gold prices
I'm not a Gold trader, I have never traded any Gold contracts in my entire life.However, I do cast a glance from time to time at Gold prices as part of my personal monitoring of the global financial markets. I also noted that a few of the chatters in the chatbox have long positions on Gold, and was previously (and currently?) very bullish on Gold [more...]
Date: 2008-12-07 09:33:00
DrumBeat: December 18, 2008
Oil drops 9 pct as demand outlook overshadows OPEC NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. crude prices dropped more than 9 percent to $36 a barrel Thursday as slumping demand and swelling U.S. inventories offset OPEC's record supply cut agreement. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries on Wednesday agreed to cut output by 2 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 13:42:11
Chesapeake's Cutback of Natural Gas Expenditures
Note: This is an updated version of a post from earlier this week. Some more recent quotes have been added at the end of this post ... cost of producing- to currently above the price of natural gas futures. While shutting ... At $100 Oil, What Can the Scientist Say to the Investor? The Energy Return on Time Peak Oil - Why [more...]
Date: 2008-09-23 20:12:34
Stock Market Dictionary - M
MFifth letter of a NASDAQ stock symbol specifying that the issue is the company's fourth class of preferred shares. M1Measure of the U.S. money stock that consists of currency held by the public, travelers checks, demand deposits and other checkable deposits including NOW (negotiable order of withdrawal) and ATS (automatic transfer service) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 16:44:00
What is the front futures contract?
The other day I got a question about futures contracts from a member of my mailing list on a subject which I’m sure others have as well ... . Understanding Open Interest in Futures and Options Trading Predicting Fed Rate Policy with Fed ... . I am in the progress of learning the details about Futures right now. On the web I’ve lately [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 13:42:59
Useless T.A.-T.A.’s?
By John Galt January 1, 2009 The question that is the title of this piece has been bothering me since the “mysterious” rally on August 15-17 of 2007. It took me the entire month of December of 2008, that’s right through yesterday, to figure out why the traditional methodologies may no longer apply, at least in my opinion [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 04:35:11
01-09-09 *R-Calf USA OpEd* CEO Informs Federal Agencies Market, Trade Policies Have Failed the U.S. Cattle Industry
Washington, D.C. – R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard met with officials from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the President-Elect Transition Team for the U.S. Department of Commerce, and with House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson this week to discuss the need for immediate policy reforms to restore the viability of, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 01:49:46
Money Flow: Fewer Sellers, But Still No Influx of Buyers
Last week's review noted a sharp rebound in the indicators, as buyers flocked to the most beaten-up market sectors. As we can see from the Cumulative Demand/Supply measure (top chart), this rally has continued in the past week, taking us toward overbought status before a pullback late in the week [more...]
Date: 2008-07-27 17:20:00
Some rumblings on next FOMC Meeting Tuesday, 16 Dec 2008
Sometimes, it takes a while before "the obvious" becomes "obvious" and stares at you right in the face.I don't know why I didn't see this earlier ... fund futures are now pricing in a 98 percent chance that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates ... today, the same Fed Fund Futures are now pricing in 100% probability of a 75bp cut [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 16:53:00
Baruch College’s Schwartz Institute Featured in Higher Education Magazine Change-’Improving Communication is Everyone’s Responsibility’ by Fara Warner
In 2003, Terrence Martell, a finance professor at the City University of New York’s Baruch College, encountered a classroom of 80 seniors who could navigate the complex intricacies of the futures markets and commodities trading. But when he asked them to write a report explaining to a commodity [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 17:12:05
BDS Media Meme Destroyed: Weak Dollar Doesn't Mean Higher Oil
As oil and gasoline prices rose throughout much of this decade, a popular media meme was that a lower dollar was largely to blame ... culminating in the commodity futures bubble that peaked in July. Yet, since early November, oil ... to that! In the end, there were a number of factors that created the energy/commodity futures [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 17:05:30
Copper Gains to 1-Month High in London on China, Obama Stimulus
By Claudia Carpenter Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) — Copper jumped to a one-month high in London on speculation China, the world’s largest user of the metal, ... s Comex division, copper futures for March delivery declined 1.95 cents, or 1.2 percent, to $1.535 ... demand. Industrial metals including copper have advanced 9.1 percent this year, the best annual start [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 16:03:12
Nikkei to Cash, Gold Bearish
Sheesh. Hope you survived the week in one piece! We're just 100 points on the S&P 500 from the Oct. 2002 low of 777. Amazing ... by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. (See my "How It Works" page for details.) Trading new signals ... , derivatives, Black Swans, market timing, trading system development, CFTC, Commodity Futures Trading [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 20:33:00
Crude Oil Dips Beneath $70
Who would have expected such a headline on Crude Oil just five or so months ago?! ... on Wednesday. Let’s look at the weekly and daily charts to see how this happened and what might ... to give a boost to prices, or at least stave off some of the rampant selling in the commodity [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 15:38:49
BEST STOCK MARKET BLOG POSTS OF 2008!
Dancing on the grave of 2008 before it has officially passed may be in poor taste, but did 2008 care about you when it fucked your 401k account? NO.2008 was a total dick.The best thing you could say about 2008 is that it was a good year for blogging about the stock market. Everyday, some new scandal broke and some significant level was breached [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 03:23:00
Viking Global. Global macro funds seek to find investments in whatever market they can gain an edge, whether it be equities, bonds, currencies, debt, ... he has a longer-term macroeconomic view, he won't let that stop him from making money by trading [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 14:01:00
3. THE FIRST $2 MILLION IS THE TOUGHEST
Trade with an edge, manage risk, be consistent, and keep it simple. The entire Turtle training, and indeed the basis for all successfultrading, can be summed up in these four core principles.The Turtle training sessions were held in a conference room at the Union League Club in Chicago, two blocks east of the CBOT [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 23:53:00
Oil and Gas Prices….
Found this very interesting article on www.zawya.com written by Shashank Shekhar on how unpredictible oil and prices can be ... of United States Petrochemical Industries, said he expected a turnaround in oil demand (and therefore ... (WTI) spot crude dropped between 3.38 and 10.51 per cent. Oil forecasts went awry for all quarters [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 00:00:22
Down for the Count - Bush’s “ownership society” hits the canvas
Dandelion Salad By Mike Whitney 06/17/08 “ICH’ The economy is in tatters. Consumer confidence has plummeted, food and energy prices are soaring, and the housing market is experiencing its biggest crash since the Great Depression. Manufacturing is down, unemployment is up, gasoline is topping $4 per gallon, [more...]
Date: 2008-06-18 12:36:58
Investing in Crude Oil
Oil as a commodity is an interesting real asset. What investments most directly create the economic effect of owning oil itself? ... for the rest of us? Among others, they include: futures contracts funds that invest in futures contracts exchange traded notes that are priced to a futures index royalty trusts that own oil [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 14:29:14
Get Buy / Sell Call on BSE, NSE & NSE F&O Shares: 13 Jan 2009
1. Satyam has proved itself as Zhootha and Raju7 has become a Conman from being a gentleman. The real story and Raju motive behind the whole story is as assessed by me and a few pertinent questions which needs to be probed by SEBI. 2. Raju in a deliberate move kept inflating the profit to keep Satyam ahead in the race in so many years but his [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 18:21:56
Trading Energy Markets - for Big Consistent Profits
If you have never considered trading energy markets then think again - Because they can yield fantastic profits as the recent bull move in crude ... for maximum profit potential. The worlds most actively traded commodity group The energy markets are the world’s largest traded commodity group as they are literally the fuel of the global economy [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 20:40:15
The Global Financial Crisis: A Short Course on Commodity Trading
Due to all the recent global financial strife, DBKP wanted to look at one segment of the global financial sector, commodity trading, and how it fits into the world’s economy. Commodities What is a commodity? Lets start ... products, metals, petroleum, gasoline, heating oil, and natural gas. The term commodity may refer [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 21:18:59
A Lesson In Geo-Political Energy + Gold News
My Note- Today I present an interesting article about the Geo-Political ramifications of the Battle for the Caspian Seas, plus some of the latest Gold News. Gold today is making a much needed correction in prices, if Gold can hold here and/or we have any increase in tensions of the Middle East; [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 18:46:26
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Tips for Investors to Make Money
1. Tip Share Market. India had a perfect new year with markets closing firmly and thus one can say that we may be in the offing of seeing a technical ... complete post related to day trading here. 1. Are you looking to get a hassle free journey during [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 13:09:21
