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March 20th – Today’s Trading Tips & Market Analysis
See Today’s Binary Options Trading Opportunities Below – Watch The Video For Full Market Analysis The Thursday session saw the gold markets go back and forth during the day, testing the 1180 level for resistance, and testing the 1160 level for support. We believe that this market is trying to put in some type of…
The Philly Fed ADS Business Conditions Index
Note from dshort: I’ve updated my periodic look at the Philly Fed ADS Index through yesterday’s release, which included the latest Initial Jobless Claims (for the week ending March 14th). The Philly Fed’s Aruoba-Diebold-Scotti Business Conditions Index (hereafter the ADS index) is a fascinating but relatively little known real-time indicator of business conditions for the…
Shifts In Liquidity – Indicative Of Deflation & Bond Bubble?...
COMMENT: Dear Martin, Interesting read on the London traders post today. I’ve always traded from home primarily in mid cap equities. This last year has seen the steady decline of liquidity in small and mid cap stocks as people seriously start to question which company’s will survive and which won’t. The blue chips are liquid but…
Morning Call For March 20, 2015
OVERNIGHT MARKETS AND NEWS June E-mini S&Ps (ESM15 +0.32%) this morning are up and European stocks are up +0.31% as Greek default concerns eased after Greek Prime Minister Tsipras said he was “more optimistic” after deliberations with EU leaders in Brussels. That fueled gains in Greek government bonds and the Greek 10-year bond yield fell back…
EC How To Spot
“A truly great business must have an enduring ‘moat’ that protects excellent returns on invested capital” -Warren Buffett My most successful and long-lasting investments have always come about when I’ve invested in a company with a strong and enduring “moat”. Buffett worked out long ago that a company that’s able to sustain high returns over…
Calm Ahead Of Today’s Quad-Witching Which May Lead To Vol S
Quad-witching days are volatile on normal days, so in an environment of virtually zero liquidity, in which the market careens from one extreme to another simply based on whether the Fed utters one single word, in which volatility across asset classes is soaring, and in which it is all about igniting algo momentum, today’s quadruple…
Philly Fed Business Outlook: Modest Growth, A Bit Below Expectati
The Philly Fed’s Business Outlook Survey is a monthly report for the Third Federal Reserve District, covers eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware. The latest gauge of General Activity came in at 5.0, essentially unchanged from last month’s 5.2 and the lowest reading since the -2.0 contraction in February of last year. The 3-month moving average…
Dollar Remains Strong After Fed Moves
The U.S. dollar may have weakened somewhat on Wednesday after Fed Chair Janet Yellen’s more-dovish-than-expected comments tempered expectations for a rate hike as early as June. But the greenback quickly recovered on Thursday as investors digested the news. The dollar index is up around 9 percent year to date after rising nearly 13 percent last…
Hate investing? Target-date funds are for you
If you watch financial advertising, you know that you should spend your days tracking your portfolio, trading frequently, and, well, tracking your portfolio. Oddly enough, many people find other things that they would rather do in life, such as reading a book, traveling the world, or sorting bolts in the garage. If you’re one of…