Morning thoughts 1/4

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Good morning traders, A few important things happening this morning: Europe is strong at +1.3% (2 standard devs).  UK is much stronger and is up 3.2% (4.5 standard devs) on followthrough from very hot manufacturing data.  We are also seeing corresponding moves in Cable and Euro compared to Pacific currencies (GBPAUD +2%, etc). Chile is intervening with a 12B FX … Read More

Morning Thoughts 1/3

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Good Morning Traders, And Happy New Year!  Some interesting things happening this morning: First of all, realize that volatility cratered in the last weeks of 2010, but this is nothing out of the ordinary.  The circled area above shows our indicator that looks at each day’s price change as a standard deviation of the last 20 days.  As you can … Read More

A Sea Of Blue

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For the most part as expected the market has been quiet this holiday week.  This is clearly demonstrated by this screenshot of theSMB Radar.  We use color coding throughout each list to quickly assess how In Play any given name is.  Red indicates “hot” and blue indicates “cold”.  I know–we are so clever.  Overall, when you see 90% of the … Read More

Morning thoughts 12/29

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Good morning traders, I am traveling and away from the computer all day. (Driving 9 hours back to New York, a big Thank You to Continental Airlines for that one, but don’t get me started…). I don’t see a lot in terms of setups today. Everything I had said from past days applies here: focus on specific in play stocks … Read More