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The market and most of its participants appear to be lethargic. After the week we've had, that's quite understandable. The trading action is very choppy out there today, which isn't all that unusual to see ahead of options expiration. ...
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Good morning. Premarket futures have a positive tone as central banks around the world take coordinated action to flood global money markets with massive amounts of US dollars. According to Bloomberg, about $3.6 trillion of market value ...
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A reader asked me to check on emerging markets and discuss their recent underperformance since the July market bottom. Here, I look at the MSCI Emerging Market Index, and compare it to the EAFA (Europe/Asia/Far East) and the S&P 500. ...
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The futures are up, although well off their pre-market highs, after some more PPT action this morning. Let’s see if the bulls can follow through on this early strength… On Today’s Calendar:. 10:00 — Leading Indicators ...
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There are a lot of good articles around about money market funds possibly losing their peg to 1.00 dollar mark. Fellow blogger Rob from Qunatifiable Edges wrote about how his IRA is frozen due to his cash being affected by the 3% drop ...
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A number of you have said that NYSE needs to change the Liquidity Replenishment Point (LRP) ranges so that the LRPs aren't triggered as often. Yesterday we filed a proposal to double the ranges. Here's an excerpt (footnotes omitted): ...
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Just a reminder, the quarterly expiration of stock and index options and futures takes place tomorrow, 19 Sept. Plus, after the close, Standard & Poor's will conduct a quarterly share rebalancing of its S&P 500, MidCap 400, SmallCap 600 ...
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I just want to welcome those of you who arrived here on the blog today as a result of the Q&A post on The Kirk Report. I’m glad you stopped by and hope you’ll return often! Charles is a great friend, a class act, successful trader, ...
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I was short shares of Baidu.com (BIDU) earlier in the day and cashed in for a profit way too early (or so it seemed) as the stock continued another 10 points lower. I was focused on other stocks later in the day while the market rallied ...
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Here is the HIGH RESOLUTION VIDEO DOWNLOAD for today.
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"That's it! The Bottom is in" If that is how you feel each time the market gaps higher in a primary downtrend, you need to learn to relax and be more patient. If you miss "the bottom" there will still be plenty of opportunities to make ...
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Keep our fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. ~Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Look, shouldn't they be happy with the 950 points in the last 2 days? They're not. Now they're going after our women. Folks, this is war.
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Oil has corrected sharply. And so have the majority of commodity markets. But in contrast to the financial sector which has the news in a headlock, the energy sector is not only being mostly ignored, it actually presents exhaustive selling and is setting up a pattern which has seen it bounce...
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We are now hearing plenty of discussion about the need for a modern version of the Resolution Trust Company. We think that this is way too late, given the lag in getting anything through Congress. We are also approaching the traditional ...
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