Finance

Never A Straighter Line

We all crave a market that trends persistently. Over the past six years, with all the insane interventions going on around the world, it’s tough to secure a trend (particularly on the short side) that lasts more than a couple of trading sessions. But stand back, everyone, and take note of what commodities have done consistently…

The Traps Of Support And Resistance

Online Trading Academy Article of the Week by Sam Evans, Online Trading Academy Coming up with the title and topic of this week’s article was a simple task for me this time around, as it was directly inspired by a question that I received from a regular reader of these articles. As you know I do…

Short Commodities? Stay Away From Leverage

So, you wanna be a commodity bear? Well, there’s certainly good reason. This year, the equal-weighted Thomson Reuters-CRB Commodity Index has fallen 7.5 percent. Other commodity benchmarks, more heavily skewed to the energy sector, have slumped even more. The Bloomberg Commodity index, mirrored by the iPath Bloomberg Commodity Index Total Return ETN (NYSE Arca: DJP), for…

Big Blue Takes A Big Dump

IBM is one of the 105 (and growing) short positions I have cooking. I have been waiting for it to break beneath its dinky little range for weeks, and voila, it finally happened today. Let the games begin. (If there’s any curiosity, my long positions total zero).  

The Glass Is Half Full……And Filling Up

“Davidson” submits: 1)  If one studies markets using the historical record, the most striking feature revealed is that fundamental economic trends correlate with the long term trends in equity prices. 2)  If one examines multiple measures of economic activity, they correlate with each other and let one make good guesses as to future changes in…

EC I Just Got

Summary: “Greatness isn’t just talent. It’s talent applied consistently.” Gary Player. Ventas, Inc. declared its quarterly common dividend of $.79 per share, a 9% increase from the prior dividend of $.725 per share. I would wait for a 10% sell-off or a price of $66.00 that represents a 4.5% dividend yield (based on the new…