Dawn over Newton MA

Obama’s Prime Time on BP

Preview here. Major American oil companies & BP will be in front of congress today. The Bottom Line for me is – the transformation to alternative fuels. This is the golden opportunity to make a giant leap forward to alternative energy solutions.

Chaos and lies has surrounded BP (the free market’s) response to this oil spill. Government from the past and present administration has bought BP line for way too long and was caught with its pants down by its ankles. The right wing’s solution is to scream & their drill baby drill mantra.

Perhaps today in front of congress and with Obama there will be the DAWN of some different solutions.

Wonder if oil executives will make the same mistake and arrive in big private jets like the car executives did? Will they get called on it?

Dawn of Financial Reform

The NYT Business section lead story the Volker Reform section of financial reform looks like it will pass! –

“Bankers have all but given up on defeating …would effectively bar federally insured banks from trading for their own accounts”

What this means is that YOUR FDIC insured deposits would NOT be used socialize the risk of banks trading opaque, over leveraged derivatives. Gee instead they might even loan that money to buisnesses and home buyers.

Current war – Blanche Lincoln’s Derivatives reform. See above link. Better email your congressperson or Senator and tell him/her you support Linclon’s bill.

Why Afghanistan?

The Pentagon, yesterday released the reason we  and should continue in Afghanistan, They have perhaps a trillion dollars of minerals. The Iraq war was fought over oil and now the loosing effort in Afghanistan needed an excuse to continue. China could get those minerals instead of us. What happened to terrorism and why is it the war machine – the Pentagon –  doing a report on minerals now?

KISS & Stocks (Keep It Simple Stupid)

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AS ALWAYS, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING!

Investors411 record – 5 years of beating benchmark S&P 500 and almost all major US indexes

Technicals, Fundamentals & Analysis

The benchmark S&P 500 fought its to its 200 day moving average/resistance level. Got their in the morning and spent the rest of the day in retreat. = Bearish

One significant data point that investors/traders should remember – Currency markets>Bond Markets>Stock markets. Translation = Because currencies and bonds are so much larger than stock markets they are the DOG that influences how the TAIL (stocks) wags.

With the NYSE up +75 points at it high yesterday – Interday the MO easily reached the +60 or overbought territory. This over bought position added strength to the resistance level and hurt the bulls yesterday. = Bearish

Looks like we may see some teeth in financial reform. Long term Bullish but short term = Bearish

An investment agency downgraded Greek debt in the PM yesterday, but the Euro held onto a significant move higher. In past, this would have sent the Euro tumbling. Sometimes there is a delayed reaction, but for now & for stocks = BULLISH

The Baltic Dry Index BDI has dropped well over 20% of its value in the last month+. Since the BDI measures shipping rates this fall is NOT good for world trade, economics. For stocks = Bearish

Futures up this AM = Bullish

Significant Indexes

• McClellan Oscillator rose to +50.26 [+60 or above = Overbought = sell. -60 or below = Oversold = buy]. StockCharts has a better version of the McClellan chart ($NYMO) LINK. –  & Investopedia on –  How the MO works. Considering the volatility of the MO this is about as close as you can come without being overbought. = moderately bearish
• US Dollar –  The dollar fell a significant -0.77% [Anything over +/- @0.50 is significant.] Mantra - right now The Dollar Rules is very important. The dollar was @ -1.4% lower in the AM and rose throughout the afternoon.

Reading the Tea Leaves -

A lot of reasons to be bearish this AM. But almost all of Wall Street’s eyes are focused on what’s happening to the EURO. FXE is the ETF that tracks the Euro and it was up +1.09% yesterday despite a downgrade of European debt. There’s a lot of reasons – see red bearish signals above, but if the EURO is going to continue to go up so will stocks.

FXE is the ETF to watch along with Spain’s (EWP underperformed yesterday)

Another charge at the resistance levels for stocks seems likely. Remember, each failed charge weakens the attacking force.

Positions

The  Positions Section = latest buys and sells  - These are positions I actually own – Updated over weekend.

With the DOW up 113 points at it high yesterday – Interday the MO probably reached the 60 or overbought territory. This over bought position probably hurt the bulls yesterday. = Bearish

Traders - YOUR stock List from 2/6 & from 9/6 a list of stocks that were outperforming and “worth a trade.”

• VCI – broke out to new high
• SNDK – broke out to new high
• SAM – broke out to new high
• BIDU – @4-6% rally
• ESRX (not on list but position Investors411 held) – broke out to new high

No one ever went broke taking profits. My best read of the tea leaves is to sell 1/2 into today’s rally (let the rest ride and hope it turns into long term gains)

Of course the ultra long ETF’s often mentioned (UWM, THY) have have done as well in the mini rally of the last three trading sessions.

Dumping 1/2 of UUP for small loss.

The bottom line is will the EURO continue to improve?

From Yesterday – Change in outlook – This is tentative . Upgrading to NEUTRAL. Technically, this looks justified, but frankly, fundamentally I sure don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.” – It was premature. Major indexes bounced off their 200 day moving averages and retreated in heavier volume. Not the technical breakout we were hoping for. Let’s wait till the resistance level actually falls to change the outlook. Maybe today Therefore, a return to CAUTIOUSLY BEARISH.

Long Term Outlook = CAUTIOUSLY BEARISH

AS ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING

Trust Buster president Teddy Roosevelt – Will Obama show us the same tonight?

Tea Party

“The tea party’s exaggerated importance” is the headline of the  major independent blog editorial blog Politico’s this AM on the “anti Obama rage group” .

Mea Culpa – I do respect the Tea Party because at Investor411 they have won. By focusing attention on their white (in the words of the old Ivory Snow commercial this group is 99 44/100% white)  rage I have taken it away time from facts on the deficit or Health Care.

The NYT’s lead editorial yesterday was on Massachusetts heath care system “which 1/2 of Scott Brown supporters and 2/3 of all Massachusetts residents like.”(paraphrase) according to a poll. 97% of MA residents are covered. For more see “Reform and Massachusetts.”

BRIC

The Economist has a  has an in depth look at the top emerging markets as a real alternative economic force to the European Union & America.  BRIC = Brazil, Russia, India, China whose leaders are or just finished meeting together in Brazil.  “The Trillion Dollar Club”

The Obama Speech

Tonight’s speech on financial reform is a defining moment. Will Obama be the next Teddy Roosevelt ? (A Republican Trust buster) The short answer is NO. Senate Democrat Ted Kaufman (Dem. DE) is our Teddy Roosevelt – Here’s part 2 of his speech on Wall Street and the Rule of Law

One piece of encouraging news is Senator Blanche Lincoln (Dem  AK) committee has a Republican onboard (Grassly- R IA) for her legislation on derivatives. Lincoln has come up with a stronger bill than other proposals.

NYTs headlines Obama Issues Sharp Call for Reforms on Wall Street If this is true you’ll see a 2 to 5% decline in shadow banks tomorrow. It Teddy Roosevelt or Ted Kaufman gave the speech you’ll see a 5 to 10%+ fall in shadow financials tomorrow.

KISS & Stocks (Keep It Simple Stupid)

If you don’t understand a term look in up at Investopedia.com dictionary

AS ALWAYS, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING!

Investors411 record – 5 years of beating benchmark S&P 500 and almost all major US indexes

Technicals, Fundamentals & Analysis

See Positions for changes made each weekend

Market went nowhere yesterday in increased above average volume. What Wall Street calls “churning.” Usually considered a reversal of trend = Bearish

Yesterday’s grand slam earnings reports by giants APPL & BAC (thank you taxpayer bailout, Fed 0% loans, & elimination of mark to market accounting) did little to move markets higher. US markets have reacted poorly to great news indicates  = Bearish

Seeking Alpha this AM has a big section on the problems  China has. Here’s one article . Investors411 has closed its entire China position (FXI).

Earnings reports continue to pour in.

Significant Indexes

• McClellan Oscillator rose slightly to -4.91 yesterday.  [+60 or above = Overbought = sell. -60 or below = Oversold = buy]. StockCharts has a better version of the McClellan chart ($NYMO) LINK. - This is almost right in the middle of NEUTRAL territory
• US Dollar – rose +0.19% yesterday. [Anything over +/- @0.50 is significant.] Mantra - right now The Dollar Rules Is very important. Remember, dollar down almost always = stocks up and visa versa. The positive earnings reports are overshadowing the dollar which is in the middle of a consolidating range between @$80.00 & @$82.20. Dollar at 81.18. If it moves to either side of that range it will impact stocks.

Positions

The  Positions Section = latest buys and sells – (Revised positions last weekend) - These are positions I actually own

Both Comments from The Critic & Paul R were incorporated in the strategy section of the blog. You can see them by linking here or at any time in the future going to the top of the blog and clicking on the word STRATEGY

Caution – I do on occasion day trade. None of this is part of Investors411. Almost all of you are looking for something to hold for a period of time.

When to Buy? – McClellan Index - Only 8 times in the last year did this index reach below -60 = oversold = a time to buy. Even then tow of those tomes were within a few days of each other. Therefore the total was only 6 times. The last time was back in early February. Its frustrating not to buy or sell, but Investors411 is going to wait till we are oversold to commit major amounts of capital.

UWM – [ETF that does 2x what small cap stocks do] UMW is back in the black and at a new high although only up a couple %. Almost closed this position. Going to sell at or near open today.

IMAX – imax hit a new high yesterday in a “pop and drop” (see yesterday’s Investors411) At one point in time it was up almost +9% and end the day at +2.94%. Volume was @ 3x normal.  Some entity perhaps more than one broke Imax out to a new high. All the day and swing traders jumped in after the break out. There was some China news,but this turned out to be not as big as its headline.  Then the dropping or profit taking came as IMAX fell up to 8%.

IMAX has had  some other pumps and dumps over the last few months. Investors411 called this pump and dump yesterday. This kind of trade is only for day/swing traders (not investors) who know what they are doing and can handle the risk. Not a recommend trade by Investors411 Yes I bought some Imax to day trade early yesterday and made a 5% profit on this.

Paul R on comments section recommends VCI,, that’s held onto its breakout from a consolidation period yesterday. Volume not strong,but it has possibilities for longer term investors

Monitor Likes SHOO – more a short term trade because it is too far extended from 50DMA (Day Moving Average – If you do not recognize what 50DMA was you should NOT be trading these stocks!)

Long Term Outlook = CAUTIOUSLY BULLISH

AS ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING