Today's Video Update: Countdown To Syria And Other Important Market Elements

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Hello traders everywhere! Adam Hewison here, President of INO.com and Co-creator of MarketClub, with your mid-day market update for Wednesday, the 28th of August.

Countdown To Syria
There's no doubt about it, yesterday's news that the US was going to have a military response to Syria spooked the markets and sent the indices to their biggest loss in some time. Today, the markets are digesting what they went through yesterday. Of course, there are winners and losers in any economy, and tools like MarketClub's Trade Triangles can help you know when to hold and when to fold. Yesterday, I shared with you a major sell signal in Walmart (NYSE:WMT), potentially because of higher oil prices that are on the way. Continue reading "Today's Video Update: Countdown To Syria And Other Important Market Elements" →

Using the MACD to Trade Binary options

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Momentum in the capital markets is similar to the momentum of riding a bicycle especially down a hill.  The more speed a bicycle rider has, the further they are likely to go.  The same goes for market momentum, so the key is figuring out how to measure it, and use that information to generate trading signals.  One of the best tools to use to measure momentum is the MACD – Moving Average Convergence Divergence Index.  The MACD measures the difference between two moving average, referred to as the spread, and compares the spread to a moving average of the spread. Continue reading "Using the MACD to Trade Binary options" →

Today's Video Update: Syria Shakes The Market

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Hello traders everywhere! Adam Hewison here, President of INO.com and Co-creator of MarketClub, with your mid-day market update for Tuesday, the 27th of August.

Syria Shakes The Market
Reading the news this morning, I see that we're going to strike Syria with cruise missiles and bombs as early as Thursday. How nice of us to announce what we are going to do in advance. No one knows what is going to happen when and if these events occur. All we can go on is the collective judgment of the market.

Bill Ackman Surrenders
Bill Ackman finally surrenders and shows how you can lose $500 million on a trade. In my humble opinion, activist investors should not be getting into old-style retail marketing stores like JC Penney (NYSE:JCP). Continue reading "Today's Video Update: Syria Shakes The Market" →

Macro Markets Shrug Off Policy Makers, Ready for a Pivot

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Once again we present the Treasury 'TICs' data for China and Japan, most recently available through June.  It can be argued that these two countries are the T bond market, when considering the volume in which they deal and their strategic status as heretofore T bond consumers.

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And now our long-running and most important macro chart, the 'Continuum' in long-term T bond yields; a monthly view of the 30 year yield and its 'limiter' AKA the 100 month exponential moving average (red line). Continue reading "Macro Markets Shrug Off Policy Makers, Ready for a Pivot" →