It’s the weekly commodity edition of What the FICC?
Today, we focus on metals and the differences between correcting though price versus time.
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Expert technical analysis of financial markets by JC Parets
by Ian Culley
It’s the weekly commodity edition of What the FICC?
Today, we focus on metals and the differences between correcting though price versus time.
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by Ian Culley
From the Desk of Ian Culley @IanCulley
We all learn how to fall – the sooner, the better.
As adults, we forget this is one of the first skills we learn early in life. For better or worse, my one-year-old reminds me daily.
He’s amazing.
Yes, I’m one of those proud, doting fathers. But his coordination and acrobatics keep both of us out of the pediatric ER (and me, the doghouse). He pops right up whenever he hits the ground and keeps chasing his older brother.
Pure gold.
Since my mind is always lost in the charts, his agility and doggedness remind me of gold’s resilience during the past two years.
by Ian Culley
It’s the weekly bond market edition of What the FICC?
Today we’re highlighting the breakout in bonds.
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by Ian Culley
From the Desk of Ian Culley @Ianculley
“Trade what’s in front of you.”
We say it all the time. And it sounds simple enough.
But, with an immense amount of information circulating, it can be difficult to distinguish what’s important.
That’s why we focus on price. Price filters the noise and useless data.
At the end of the day, it’s price that pays.
So, if bonds are breaking out to fresh multi-month highs, we should buy bonds, right?
by Ian Culley
It’s the weekly currency edition of What the FICC?
The forex and futures markets will provide bountiful ways to trade a weakening dollar.
But what’s the best option?
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by Ian Culley
From the Desk of Ian Culley @IanCulley
The forex and futures markets will provide bountiful ways to trade a weakening dollar.
Unfortunately, some of our initial attempts to capitalize on dollar weakness have fallen flat.
We’re not surprised – especially since market conditions remain challenging. But that won’t deter us from moving forward and finding the best trade setups.
As always, a viable trade comes down to two critical components: a well-defined risk level and a risk/reward profile heavily skewed in our favor.
And, of course, you know how much we like relative strength.
That brings us to a vehicle that challenges the definition of “currency.”
That’s gold.
by Ian Culley
From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza.
Welcome back to Under the Hood, where we’ll cover all the action for the week ended December 9, 2022. This report is published bi-weekly and rotated with The Minor Leaguers.
What we do here is analyze the most popular stocks during the week and find opportunities to either join in and ride these momentum names higher, or fade the crowd and bet against them.
We use a variety of sources to generate the list of most popular names.
There are so many new data sources available that all we need to do is organize and curate them in a way that shows us exactly what we want: a list of stocks that are seeing an unusual increase in investor interest.
Click here for a behind-the-scenes look at our process.
Whether we’re measuring increasing interest based on large institutional purchases, unusual options activity, or simply our proprietary lists of trending tickers, there’s a lot of overlap.
by Ian Culley
From the Desk of Steve Strazza @sstrazza and Alfonso Depablos @Alfcharts
This is one of our favorite bottom-up scans: Follow the Flow.
In this note, we simply create a universe of stocks that experienced the most unusual options activity — either bullish or bearish, but not both.
We utilize options experts, both internally and through our partnership with The TradeXchange. Then, we dig through the level 2 details and do all the work upfront for our clients.
Our goal is to isolate only those options market splashes that represent levered and high-conviction, directional bets.
We also weed out hedging activity and ensure there are no offsetting trades that either neutralize or cap the risk on these unusual options trades.
What remains is a list of stocks that large financial institutions are putting big money behind.
And they’re doing so for one reason only: because they think the stock is about to move in their direction and make them a pretty penny.
Then we flip through our list of stocks flashing unusual activity and pick the best setups using many of the same technical filters we do for our other scans.
And, just like that, we’ll follow the money flow and fatten our own pockets along with some of the world’s most powerful financial institutions.