A number of commodities and FX pairs continued feeling the aftermath of the FOMC-induced USD strength Friday, with silver, gold, WTI Crude, AUDUSD, EURUSD and GBPUSD being among notable casualties. Natural Gas was flattish, while others like Arabica Coffee edged closer towards a tradable bottom. The US equity markets are now above the highs ofRead More
Tag: VIX
Time to Bargain Hunt after Silver Plunge?
Commodities exhibited a mixed performance yesterday, with some watchlist markets like Natural Gas forging ahead on a new uptrend, while others like Arabica Coffee inched closer towards a tradable bottom. Silver was the worst performer of the day among all of my watchlist markets with it plunging to what appears to be a descending wedgeRead More
Sit Tight and Await 2pm EST FOMC
Best to be cautious ahead of today’s FOMC announcement at 2pm EST. There’ll likely be minimal market movement leading up to the FOMC, and it may pay to just take the day off trading (for those who trade intraday), and prepare for the opportunities that await post FOMC. Cotton (ICE CT Dec14) Weekly/Daily/4hr/Hourly CT providedRead More
Durable Goods and Consumer Confidence #s Today at 830 and 10am EST
Today’s market moving data (US Durable Goods and Consumer Confidence #s) will be released at 830 and 10pm EST respectively. There’ll likely be enough market movement leading up to the data releases and just after to make a few intraday trades as well as to reposition ahead of the very important FOMC tomorrow. Those moreRead More
Trading Range Tightening on All Markets Ahead of FOMC
This week’s big news event will be the FOMC on Wednesday with the expectation that the Fed’s QE finally coming to an end. Given that US corporate earnings have largely been better than expected, it is highly unlikely that the Fed change its mind on ending QE this month as had previously been suggested. EitherRead More
GBPUSD About to Resume Upside
British Pound Philadelphia Index Weekly The British Pound index continues bottoming on the weekly chart, and should be close to resuming its upside after several days of consolidating. The MACD black line continues moderating in its negative slope, while the RSI and Stochastics climb slowly out of oversold territory. Let’s take a look at theRead More
S&P500 (ES), Nasdaq100 (NQ) Back to Breakdown Range
VIX (CFE VX Nov14) Weekly/Daily/4hr/Hourly The VIX had a decent bounce yesterday off of support (prior resistance) in the 17-17.5 range (as seen in the daily chart). Adding to the cautiously bullish case of the VIX near-term, on the weekly chart, the VIX can argubaly have bounced yesterday off of an upchannel support line. DespiteRead More
Commodities Taking Breather Before Resuming Upside
Cotton (ICE CT Dec14) Weekly/Daily/4hr/Hourly CT pushed further up yesterday, but may tire today following signficant gains over the last few sessions. It now sits near the middle of a channel just under an ascending support turned resistance line (as seen in the daily chart). Although CT’s weekly RSI, Stochastics and MACD are all turningRead More
Commodity Laggards Silver (SI), Gold (GC) Bottoming
Although I feel silver (CME SI Dec14) and gold (CME GC Dec14) are bottoming, I haven’t profiled their charts in today’s list as I still feel their trade setups offer slightly less favourable risk:reward versus my trade ideas presented below. As usual, I try listing as many tradable setups (which I consider trading during theRead More
Corn (ZC), Wheat (ZW) Weekly/Daily/4hr Charts Bullishly Aligning
Corn (CME ZC Dec14) Weekly/Daily/4hr/Hourly ZC is at the end of a descending wedge now (see weekly chart), and its weekly, daily and 4hr RSI, Stochastics and MACD are all sloping up and pointing bullishly. On the 4hr chart, ZC has broken above a descending channel resistance line, and next resistance is only slightly aboveRead More