Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
One Company Now Owns Over 7% Of The Entire S&P 500
By now it has become common knowledge that in the ongoing war of attrition between expensive – but very much underperforming under central planning – active investing and cheap and efficient passive, ETFs, the latter are winning and the former will likely concede majority control of market AUM in just over a year. Furthermore, as […]
Forex Forecast: Pairs In Focus – March 4
The difference between success and failure in Forex trading is very likely to depend upon which currency pairs you choose to trade each week, and not on the exact trading methods you might use to determine trade entries and exits. Each week I am going to analyze fundamentals, sentiment and technical positions in order to […]
Forex Strength And Comparison March 2018
In the Currency Strength table, the JPY was the strongest currency while the CAD was the weakest. There were some significant changes last month with the JPY gaining 6 points while the CAD lost 3 points. On a month-to-month basis the GBP and EUR showed a very good performance and to a lesser extent the […]
Weekly Market Outlook – Back Between A Rock And A Hard Place
The market may have been up on Friday, but it wasn’t really enough to offset the loss booked for the whole week. Regardless, stocks remain in a proverbial no-man’s land, under some key resistance lines and above a key support levels. Traders just aren’t sure what to do here, struggling to figure out if […]
Weighing The Week Ahead: Will The US Launch A Trade War?
The economic calendar is normal but featuring the monthly employment report. Usually that would be the focus, and it might become so by week’s end. Until the situation is clarified, the paramount question will be: has the US ignited a trade war? Last Week Recap My last full edition of WTWA, two weeks ago, asked whether […]
United States As Energy Exporter: Is It “Fake News”?
Much of the media coverage of the American energy industry implies that America has become a vast and growing exporter of energy to the rest of the world and that this has created a sort of “energy dominance” for the country on the world stage. Whether such reports qualify as so-called “fake news” depends very much on […]
Telecom Stock Roundup: Solid Q4 For ATUS, TDS, USM, WIN And FTR, Mixed Bag For AMT
The telecom industry witnessed strong earnings performances by most of the key stocks last week. Altice USA Inc. ATUS, Telephone and Data Systems Inc. TDS, United States Cellular Corp. USM, Frontier Communications Corp. FTR and Windstream Holdings Inc. WIN delivered strong financial results in the fourth quarter of 2017, wherein both the top and bottom line outpaced the Zacks Consensus Estimate. Total […]
USD/CAD Weekly Analysis – Sunday, March 4
USD/CAD extended its upside movement from 1.2248 to as high as 1.2915, facing the previous high resistance at 1.2920. A breakout of this level could take price to 1.3200 area. Support is at the rising trend line on the daily chart, only a clear break below the trend line support could signal completion of the […]
Euro Contends With Italian Election Results, ECB Meeting
Fundamental Forecast for EUR/USD: Neutral Italian election results won’t be officially released until Monday morning, and exit polls have a history of being well-off the market. Take what you see at market open on Sunday with a grain of salt. The ECB is likely to signal that easing will continue for the foreseeable future, especially given […]
More Selling In The Offing?
Last week, I wrote about the looming bull trap. On Feb 27, the stock market topped and the SPX fell 142 points or about 5% in 3 days. My observation was based on time cycles and Elliott Wave. Most of the decline was blamed on the Trump announcement of tariffs on Aluminum and Steel, with […]
