Trading Markets

Pound Getting Hammered

The leading contract on theImplosion-5 List, British pound
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Hogs Approaching Heaven

August lean hogs
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Good Technicals, Despite Difficulties

Technical difficulties at the New York Stock Exchangeprompted exchange officials to halt trading, spurring a chain reaction ofclosures at the nations largest futures exchanges. The Chicago Board of Tradeand Chicago Mercantile Exchange where futures contracts on the Dow and S&P500 are traded, also c

Sugar’s Seven Sisters

Sugar is forming a Pleiades pattern, a new setup I havebeen developing. The Pleiades, or seven sisters, is a star constellation I usedto use (prior to cheap satellite navigation devices) to determine a yachtsposition with a sextant while making ocean passages. The pattern reminds me ofthe constella

Will These Sectors Explode?

Stocks are trading mixed as the market awaits Intelsfirst-ever mid-session performance update but select sectors are showing theyare set up to lead the market or have traced patterns from which they couldlaunch.The Nasdaq is up 26.56 at 2244.29, the S&P 500 is up1.14 at 1271.13, and the Dow is down

The Bigger They Are. . .

The bigger they are, the harder they can fall. Unleaded gasoline
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Who Fired Up The Nasdaq?

Semiconductors have surged and have helped ignite a rally Tuesday in the
technology sector that has takes the Nasdaq up more than 3% at mid-day.