MomentumOptionsTrading.com Midday Update for 7/30/2014 Twitter (TWTR) Zooms on Earnings Beat/ Update on US Steel (X)/ New Trade!!!12:50pm (EST)Twitter (TWTR, $46.79, up $8.20) sent the shorts sellers of its stock running for cover as shares are surging 21% today following an earnings beat-and-raise quarter.The naysayers that say said shares were headed back to the lows $30′s or that the company’s business […]
Indexes gapped down and stayed down all session as weakness in Amazon.com and Visa hurt morale a bit. The S&P 500 fell 0.48% and the NASDAQ 0.50%. Late in the day Goldman Sachs released a note saying they are “neutral” on equities over three months as it sees a slide in bonds leading to a temporary selloff in stocks:
The firm […]
[BRIEFING.COM] The stock market capped the trading week with losses across the major averages. The S&P 500 fell 0.5% to surrender its weekly gain, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (-0.7%) and Russell 2000 (-0.9%) underperformed. The two indices posted respective losses of 0.8% and 0.6% for the week.Equity indices were pressured from the get-go after several heavyweights disappointed the […]
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The sickest part of stock market
CNBC’s Patti Domm takes a look at the Russell 2000 and discusses small caps.
Stock market volatility could continue to be somewhat elevated, particularly for small cap names, as earnings season gets underway.Earnings season is seen as the next catalyst for the market, and strategists mostly expect a decent quarter with estimated gains of about six […]
SummaryOption 1: Market takes a correction in July to relieve over bought, over loved status. This is potentially a healthy pause to refresh before new highs.
Option 2: Market channel bursts upward and momentum fuels an upside blow off that would be terminal to the bull, a la ‘Silver 2011’.
We lean toward Option 1 for now.
The following is an excerpt from […]
Get Forex buy/sell signals directly to your email and by SMS. To learn more click hereSeptember E-mini Russell 2000 Index futures finished a little lower on Thursday, but remained inside a key retracement zone. How investors react to this zone should dictate today’s price action and could determine the next near-term move.Daily September E-mini Russell 2000 IndexThe short-term range is […]
Stock Market Breaking Bad Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jun 07, 2014 – 05:21 PM GMTBy: Jesse
Non-Farm Payrolls came in a tad to the low side, but close enough to be considered ‘in-line.’Stocks continued to romp higher. The Russell 2000 and the broader market continue to lag a bit, but has finally returned to even money […]
High-frequency trading (HFT) firms make money – and lots of it – by exploiting inefficiencies in the pricing of shares quoted on several exchanges in an increasingly fragmented marketplace. They also generate significant income by capturing rebates offered by various exchanges for providing liquidity. While detractors dub such practices as abusive and predatory – claiming, for instance, that HFT firms […]
by Raul de FrutosThe relationship between the stock market and metal prices changes from time to time. However, when the stock market plunges, history repeats itself and as fears of an economic downturn increase, consumer spending decreases and metal prices fall with the stock market.It’s in these situations when buying forward can become riskier than not hedging at all. Companies […]
