AUD/USD Tops 0.79 On RBA Bullishness, USD Weakness
AUD/USD was capped by the April 2016 high of 0.7840 and formed a double top. This did not last too long. A double-whammy of events sent the pair shooting higher. The pair is at the highest level in 26 months. AUD/USD is currently trading at 0.7915 and the high so far has been 0.7923. Will it […]
Gold And GDX Trading Cycle
Short term we have started a new Trading or Daily Cycle. The much bigger question is have we also found a 5-6 month Intermediate Cycle Low? That is still an open question. I have Gold on day 4 and GDX on day 5 of their new Trading/Daily Cycles. The weekly view on both shows the […]
Gold Rises In Asia Trade
Gold prices ended Monday’s session up 0.4% at $1233.76 an ounce on growing perception that the U.S. central bank may be less willing to lift borrowing costs for a third time this year. Confirming that the previous resistance at $1228, which was broken on Friday, now flipped to support encouraged buyers and pushed prices higher […]
Global Asset Allocation Update: Not Yet
There is no change to the risk budget this month. For the moderate risk investor, the allocation between risk assets and bonds is unchanged at 50/50. There are no changes to the portfolio this month. Growth and inflation expectations rose somewhat since last month’s update. The change is minor though and within the range of […]
Stocks Watchlist: AMZN, CELG, ASH
Today’s stock picks Long Amazon (AMZN) Long Celgene (CELG) Short Ashland Global (ASH)
Rydex Trader Bullishness Surpasses 2000 Tech Bubble
Jason Goepfert at SentimenTrader—the definitive source for sentiment data on stocks, bonds, and commodities—has been tweeting out a few warnings signs regarding “excessive optimism” in the stock market, so we decided to have him back on Financial Sense Insider for an update. The last time we spoke with Jason Goepfert was in May of 2015 where he explained that most sentiment […]
Sensex Plunges 240 Points; ITC Stock Price Crashes
Asian equity markets are lower today after a muted session on Wall Street and a mini-crash in Chinese stocks yesterday that some have deemed a “Black Monday” on the mainland. The Shanghai Composite is off 0.31% while the Hang Seng is down 0.21%. The Nikkei 225 is trading down by 0.63%. US equities fluctuated on Monday as investors geared up […]
Not Happening
Podcast: Play in new window | Play in new window (Duration: 13:15 — 7.6MB) DOW – 8 = 21,629 SPX – 0.13 = 2459 NAS + 1 = 6314 RUT + 2 = 1431 10 Y – .01 = 2.31% OIL – .54 = 46.00 GOLD + 5.30 = 1234.70 BITCOIN – 1.51% = 2210.29 USD ETHEREUM + 6.95% […]
Bull-Dog Of The Dead
Perhaps you came to the market this morning all dressed up and rearing to go. By the end of the session, ahead of earnings on many significant stocks (NFLX numero uno), you might have left like this bulldog of the dead. Last week, the market ended poised for something big and bigger. The Dow, S&P 500 […]
