What’s Up, What’s Down: Financials and Energy Sectors
Comments for Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Looking Ahead to Today by Reflecting Back at Monday’s Price Action
FINANCIALS:
FOMC MEETING (2 DAYS) BEGINS TODAY:Â Unchanged for the eurodollar while lower for the notes and bonds with no changes technically. The eurodollar amazingly settled unchanged equaling its CONTRACT HIGH CLOSE four consecutive trading sessions in a row. The bonds and notes are a little difficult to call, however. I have sell signals for both but they’re also close to buy signals. Also, both could be forming another sell signal on a larger scale. The eurodollar is just in a long term up-trend that is moving at a snails pace higher in the December contract.
ENERGIES:
Sharply lower closes Monday for crude and heating oil along with the rbob this time while natural gas made a new recent low close again. All of the energies were hurt by Wednesday’s and Thursday’s action with the crude, heat and rbob having their lowest lows and closes in 2 weeks again. Next week could be very critical as to what direction the crude, heat and rbob will take for a while with their choppy action one of the good indicators for a topping (or bottoming) market. Natural gas made a new recent low close looking very weak overall.
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