The Federal Reserve provides a gold mine of both medium-term investment opportunities and short-term trading opportunities. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) holds eight regularly scheduled meetings every year. One of those is being held this week, with a rate decision set to be announced at 2:15 p.m. Eastern on
Some stocks have been partying like it is 1999. The frenzy over iPhone 5 has turned into a mania. The rest of the market has been “melting up” (in the words of a fellow Trading Deck contributor) on hopes that central banks will do more. There is an old saying,
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert Our read of the FOMC statement is that QE3 is on track. Many FOMC members favor easing soon as they seem to be focused on high unemployment. As a result of the statement, stocks are spiking up, bonds became stronger and dollar slumped. Most notable is the
European Central Bank Chief Mario Draghi may follow the U.S. lead and fire off his own bazooka. Requesting broader spending powers, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson famously told Congress that he needed “a bazooka” to head off the financial crisis. German magazine Der Spiegel reports that the ECB is now considering
The markets are in a party mode and have forgotten the approaching dark cloud of the “fiscal cliff.” The fiscal cliff refers to the expiration of Bush tax cuts and simultaneous significant reduction in government spending in the United States at the end of the year. The Congressional Budget Office
This post was just published on ZYX Short Sell Change Alert Consider taking profits on QQQ right here around $63.05 and exiting the position.
This post was just published on ZYX Short Sell Change Alert Consider lowering QQQ stop to $63.52.
This post was just published on ZYX Short Sell Change Alert Based on the new earnings data, our plan on QQQ has changed. Teh new plan is to take profits and exit the position. Conservative investors may simply take profits right here in the pre-market around $63.52. Aggressive investors may put
This post was just published on ZYX Short Sell Change Alert Plan on QQQ is to short more in small tranches if the stock goes higher. Temporarily no stops. Target $61. to $62.
This post was just published on ZYX Short Sell Change Alert Initiating a 10% tranche short on QQQ right here around $65.03.