Charts and Coffee on February 10th, 2009 at 5:01 pm Central Time

A lot to say about today’s trading action. First, the market is expanding. We are out of the narrow trading range of 805-850 but at the same time the market did not simply move into the 850-880 trading range. Instead, we have market expansion. The new trading range is now 805-880 on the $SPX ($80.5-88 [...]

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Charts and Coffee on February 5th, 2009 at 6:08 pm Central Time

Not to keep beating the same drum, but look at the chart of C at the end of November and look at BAC the past couple of days. Today’s price action was a complete repeat of C’s price action at the end of November. Yesterday was the big down volume day, today the bigger volume [...]

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Charts and Coffee on February 4th, 2009 at 6:38 pm Central Time

BAC is extremely interesting today. Not because my .05% position is getting kicked around, but because the market is telling us something with the close under $5 on super high volume. 610 million shares traded today. Average volume is 172 million. What I find even more interesting is that Citigroup (C) ended the day up [...]

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Charts and Coffee on January 27th, 2009 at 8:48 pm Central Time

The after hours trade was quite interesting tonight. Apparently word is leaking out that the government will be forming a “bad bank” to purchase bad assets from banks.
The following action occurred in my junk long portfolio:
BAC: up 8.33% during regular trade, up another 9.54% AHC: up 6.61% during regular trade, up another 9.30% AHBCS: [...]

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Charts and Coffee on January 25th, 2009 at 6:41 pm Central Time

Like everyone else, I’m trying to figure out the market direction for the week. Let’s take a look at SPY:

I am using SPY (as opposed to IWM or other composite indexes) because it seems to be the most fib compliant. I have added tags to the blog. One category I plan to include is “Fibonacci [...]

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