Top Day Recommendations
4.18.11
Updat: S+P downgrades US outlook to negative and stocks take a hit while metals soar.
The dollar and the Yen rise overnight on risk aversion. No eco releases today. May crude comes off the board tomorrow so there are long liquidation pressures today. Tomorrow there will be short covering pressures. EC is under pressure this morning due to Spanish and Portuguese concerns over debt restructuring. It’s early. Themes are still developing. It’s also a holiday week with markets closed Friday. Volumes should thin out as the week progresses but that could make for greater volatility swings.
This Week's Calendar
Week of April 18 - April 22
| Date | ET | Release | For | Actual | Briefing.com | Consensus | Prior | Revised From | ||||||
| Apr 18 | 10:00 | NAHB Housing Market Index | Apr | 17 | 17 | 17 | ||||||||
| Apr 19 | 08:30 | Housing Starts | Mar | 500K | 520K | 479K | ||||||||
| Apr 19 | 08:30 | Building Permits | Mar | 530K | 538K | 517K | ||||||||
| Apr 20 | 07:00 | MBA Mortgage Purchase Index | 04/15 | NA | NA | -6.7% | ||||||||
| Apr 20 | 10:00 | Existing Home Sales | Mar | 5.15M | 5.00M | 4.88M | ||||||||
| Apr 20 | 10:30 | Crude Inventories | 04/16 | NA | NA | 1.627M | ||||||||
| Apr 21 | 08:30 | Initial Claims | 04/16 | 370K | 390K | 412K | ||||||||
| Apr 21 | 08:30 | Continuing Claims | 04/16 | 3650K | 3650K | 3680K | ||||||||
| Apr 21 | 10:00 | Philadelphia Fed | Apr | 30 | 32.9 | 43.4 | ||||||||
| Apr 21 | 10:00 | Leading Indicators | Mar | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.8% | ||||||||
| Apr 21 | 10:00 | FHFA Housing Price Index | Feb | NA | NA | -0.3% | ||||||||
Current views, speculations and suggestions.
They are good till close of business today. These are strictly technical in nature, not fundamentally based or biased.
Legend
P is Positive
N is Negative
PRD is Potential Reversal Day
S2 is strong support
S1 is good support
DS is Daily Support
DR is Daily Resistance
R1 is Good Resistance
R2 is Strong Resistance
Levels are for the most active futures contract
Daily Support and Resistance
Trend S2 S1 DS DR R1 R2
| Emini S+P | P | 1283 | 1301 | 1310 | 1323 | 1333 | 1347 |
| Emini Naz | N | 2260 | 2285 | 2294 | 2319 | 2234 | 2358 |
| Yen | P | 116.33 | 118.33 | 119.60 | 121.30 | 121.46 | 122.59 |
| EC | P | 142..73 | 143.05 | 143.15 | 144.76 | 145.44 | 146.74 |
| 10 Year | P | 117.13 | 118.19 | 119.08 | 120.04 | 120.15 | 121.04 |
| 30 Year | P | 116.26 | 118.26 | 119.29 | 121.11 | 121.28 | 122.30 |
| Soybeans | N | 12.615 | 12.965 | 13.62 | 13.506 | 13.865 | 14.41 |
| Corn | PRD | 7.104 | 7.26 | 7.42 | 7.605 | 7.705 | 7.99 |
| June Gold | P | 1429.6 | 1458.3 | 1475.7 | 1492.6 | 1502.4 | 1517 |
| May Silver | P | 38.59 | 40.82 | 41.91 | 43.14 | 44.16 | 45.28 |
| May Copper | N | 40.39 | 41.47 | 418.50 | 430.40 | 44.47 | 46.05 |
| May Crude | P | 10.23 | 105.31 | 107.88 | 110.77 | 113.46 | 117.53 |
N.B.: if you initiate a trade using ANY of these
numbers use a STOP at least equivalent to 2 ½%.
Repeat: use Stops. Don’t think about using Stops.
Use Stops. Some find it appropriate to look at the
margin requirement and use that as a Stop or if
it’s a steep initial requirement, use half. But
whatever you do, stop thinking about any other
alternative and use Stops.
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Futures trading entails considerable risk and is not for
everyone. An account can lose more than its initial investment.
Stops are not necessarily filled at the stop level. Past
performance is not a guarantee of future results.
Charles Kespert
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MANY INHERENT LIMITATIONS, SOME OF WHICH
ARE DESCRIBED BELOW. NO REPRESENTATION IS
BEING MADE THAT ANY ACCOUNT WILL OR IS
LIKELY TO ACHIEVE PROFITS OR LOSSES SIMILAR
TO THOSE SHOWN. IN FACT, THERE ARE
FREQUENTLY SHARP DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
HYPOTHETICAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS AND THE
ACTUAL RESULTS SUBSEQUENTLY ACHIEVED BY
ANY PARTICULAR TRADING PROGRAM.
ONE OF THE LIMITATIONS OF HYPOTHETICAL
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INVOLVE FINANCIAL RISK, AND NO
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COMPLETELY ACCOUNT FOR THE IMPACT OF
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EXAMPLE, THE ABILITY TO WITHSTAND LOSSES OR
TO ADHERE TO A PARTICULAR TRADING PROGRAM
IN SPITE OF TRADING LOSSES ARE MATERIAL POINTS
WHICH CAN ALSO ADVERSELY AFFECT ACTUAL
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