Charts and Coffee on September 23rd, 2009 at 3:11 pm Central Time

For traders with a directional bias, today was quite a FOMC day. We had mostly a slow day leading up to the Fed announcement as one might expect, followed up by a melt up of stocks after the announcement. But, unlike other FOMC days where the market really took off, the market seemed to kind [...]

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Charts and Coffee on September 21st, 2009 at 10:52 pm Central Time

One thing I have noticed is that many of my RSI 93 candidates are biotech stocks. Today I shorted PSDV at an average price of $5.86.  I think it actually makes sense that biotech stocks are often the stocks that go parabolic. First, these stocks generally have a good fundamental story behind them. With drugs, [...]

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Charts and Coffee on September 20th, 2009 at 10:10 pm Central Time

Tonight’s post will be text only. The trading plan remains unchanged. I’m following my three indicators which include the dollar (via UDN), the Ted spread (3 month LIBOR less three month T-Bills) and LQD (high quality bonds).
Since March, we have seen a weakened dollar, a declining TED spread and a bull run in bonds. My [...]

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