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The Stealth Greek Of Options Trading: Vega

By Current News • Aug 27th, 2010 • Category: Commodity News, Financials, Indices (SP500, Dow, Nasdaq)

Friday, August 27, 2010
In my previous missives on the Greeks of the option world, we have spent most of our time focusing on Theta and Delta. In the real world of option trading, option prices are the subjects of three primal forces: price of the underlying, time to expiration, and implied volatility.  Delta and theta [...]

Summer Doldrums Coming to an End!

By Current News • Aug 24th, 2010 • Category: Indices (SP500, Dow, Nasdaq)

Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Good morning and welcome to today’s Boomerang Blog update.
I wanted to put up Monday’s chart in a condensed form so we could take a look at how it appears the summer doldrums may be starting to end.
The market on Monday had potential to turn bullish with prices holding over 1074 and still [...]

A Forecast Follow-Up on the SP 500 and Gold

By Current News • Aug 20th, 2010 • Category: Indices (SP500, Dow, Nasdaq), Metals

Friday, August 20, 2010

David Banister- www.markettrendforecast.com
In my last article a few weeks ago for Kitco.com, I was concerned that the market could have a hangover after the recent rally.  Apparently, my concern was not un-founded as we dropped from a rising bearish wedge near 1130, to the 1070 Fibonacci pivot earlier this week.  Although my [...]

Silver Stocks Offer Value

By Current News • Aug 18th, 2010 • Category: Indices (SP500, Dow, Nasdaq), Metals

Wednesday, August 18, 2010
In our last editorial we showed a few charts of our junior gold and junior silver indices.
Gold has moved well past its 2008 high and the same has happened with our junior gold index. Silver, at its recovery peak was within 7% off its 2008 high while our junior silver index was [...]

How to Trade a Volatile in the Energy Market

By Current News • Aug 17th, 2010 • Category: Energies

Tuesday, August 17, 2010
At Active Trading Partners, we take a different approach to trading than most online services in terms of advising our subscribers.   Our methodology revolves around behavioral characteristics of the crowd, and taking advantage of the extremes in sentiment, whether bullish or bearish.
In the case of ETF trading, we often work with 3x [...]

What Just Happened?

By Current News • Aug 12th, 2010 • Category: Financials, Indices (SP500, Dow, Nasdaq)

Thursday, August 12, 2010
The market dropped unexpectedly today, or did it?  Here at TheMarketTrendForecast we review Elliott Wave and Fibonacci patterns to identify potential tops and bottoms in advance.  Our subscribers are forewarned of both opportunity and danger when we read the patterns correctly.  Below for example is a chart we sent out to our [...]

Learning How to Profit from Theta When Trading SPX Options

By Current News • Aug 11th, 2010 • Category: Financials, Indices (SP500, Dow, Nasdaq)

Wednesday, August 11, 2010
As discussed in the first article, “The Hidden Potential of Learning How to Trade SPX and Gold Options” I pointed out that there are several fundamental principles that must be mastered before profits can be attained when trading options. Novice traders typically skip the discussion about “The Greeks” and skim over volatility [...]

Gold Prepares To Make Yet Another All-Time High

By Current News • Aug 10th, 2010 • Category: Metals

Tuesday, August 10, 2010
by: Sam Kirtley
The summer doldrums are normally a weak time for gold, with July and August historically being two of the worst months for the yellow metal. July followed this pattern with there being a great deal of weakness in the gold price. However gold prices have bounced back this month, with [...]

Dow/Gold & Summer Doldrums

By Current News • Aug 10th, 2010 • Category: Indices (SP500, Dow, Nasdaq), Metals

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Central banks money printing is out of control. The constant printing of all the world’s currencies is just another way for countries to default on their debt – the repayment of a creditor occurs using [...]

A Pattern Analysis of the SP500 Index Rally

By Current News • Aug 5th, 2010 • Category: Indices (SP500, Dow, Nasdaq)

Thursday, August 5, 2010
Judging by some analysts comments, the bullish heads on CNBC, and fearless Bulls, we have to continue to question whether this is a “corrective” rally up in the markets working off oversold indicators and sentiment in late June…. or…. the start of a major 3rd Elliott wave structure off the 2009 bottoms [...]

Was that the Bottom at 1011?

By Current News • Aug 4th, 2010 • Category: Financials, Indices (SP500, Dow, Nasdaq)

Wednesday, August 4, 2010
The SP 500 had a very interesting Fibonacci Intersection as I call it here at TheMarketTrendForecast.com on July 1st.  At the 1011 pivot low, the index re-traced a Fibonacci 38% of the 2010 highs from the 2009 lows and bottomed out.  In addition, the 1011 pivot was a 38%  upward re-tracement of [...]

 

 

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