Top Day Recommendations
5.05.11
ECB was expected to leave rates unchanged and they did but Trichet’s communiqué failed to mention the word "vigilance" and this is being taken as code for accommodative. Too much is being written into this narrative but at the same time, the massive bets that were placed in April by commodity funds and ETF buyers are being de-leveraged. It’s a return to balance. The ECB will still be the first to raise rates, never fear. Crude continues to crater, helped in part by weak jobless numbers for the weekly number. The Fed Chairman is looking good for the moment on his call that inflationary pressures are transitory. On the other hand, it’s more probable that this is a de-leveraging and rebalancing.
This Week's Calendar
| Date | ET | Release | For | Actual | Briefing.com | Consensus | Prior | Revised From | ||||||
| May 02 | 10:00 | Construction Spending | Mar | -0.5% | 0.0% | -1.4% | ||||||||
| May 02 | 10:00 | ISM Index | Apr | 58.5 | 59.7 | 61.2 | ||||||||
| May 02 | 15:00 | Auto Sales | May | NA | NA | 4.75M | ||||||||
| May 02 | 15:00 | Truck Sales | May | NA | NA | 5.19 | ||||||||
| May 03 | 10:00 | Factory Orders | Mar | 2.5% | 1.9% | -0.1% | ||||||||
| May 04 | 07:00 | MBA Mortgage Index | 04/29 | NA | NA | -5.6% | ||||||||
| May 04 | 07:30 | Challenger Job Cuts | Apr | NA | NA | -38.6% | ||||||||
| May 04 | 08:15 | ADP Employment Change | Apr | 200K | 200K | 201K | ||||||||
| Date | ET | Release | For | Actual | Briefing.com | Consensus | Prior | Revised From | ||||||
| May 04 | 10:00 | ISM Services | Apr | 57.5 | 57.3 | 57.3 | ||||||||
| May 04 | 10:30 | Crude Inventories | 04/30 | NA | NA | 6.156M | ||||||||
| May 05 | 08:30 | Initial Claims | 04/30 | 400K | 400K | 429K | ||||||||
| May 05 | 08:30 | Continuing Claims | 04/23 | 3650K | 3625K | 3641K | ||||||||
| May 05 | 08:30 | Productivity-Prel | Q1 | 1.0% | 1.0% | 2.6% | ||||||||
| May 05 | 08:30 | Unit Labor Costs | Q1 | 1.0% | 0.8% | -0.6% | ||||||||
| May 06 | 08:30 | Nonfarm Payrolls | Apr | 175K | 185K | 216K | ||||||||
| May 06 | 08:30 | Nonfarm Private Payrolls | Apr | 200K | 200K | 230K | ||||||||
| May 06 | 08:30 | Unemployment Rate | Apr | 8.9% | 8.8% | 8.8% | ||||||||
| May 06 | 08:30 | Hourly Earnings | Apr | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.0% | ||||||||
| May 06 | 08:30 | Average Workweek | Apr | 34.3 | 34.3 | 34.3 | ||||||||
| May 06 | 15:00 | Consumer Credit | Mar | $5.0B | $4.9B | $7.6B | ||||||||
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 | N | 1313.75 | 1336.75 | 1335 | 1352.75 | 1372.50 | 1386.75 |
| Emini Naz | N | 2352 | 2376 | 2367 | 2398 | 2420 | 2440 |
| Yen | P | 119.80 | 121.55 | 123.40 | 124.57 | 124.23 | 125.16 |
| EC | P | 143.32 | 145.76 | 147.52 | 149.19 | 149.64 | 151.08 |
| 10 Year | P | 119.15 | 120.10 | 121.11 | 121.27 | 121.19 | 122.01 |
| 30 Year | P | 120.12 | 121.12 | 123.03 | 123.28 | 122.31 | 123.18 |
| Soybeans | N | 13.153 | 13.54 | 13.43 | 13.75 | 14.16 | 14.397 |
| Corn | P | 7.02 | 7.292 | 7.186 | 7.45 | 7.804 | 8.044 |
| June Gold | N | 1464.7 | 1515.2 | 1499.3 | 1537 | 1593 | 1620 |
| July Silver | N | 42.28 | 45.55 | 38.11 | 41.49 | 50.34 | 52.96 |
| July Copper | N | 399.50 | 409.20 | 408.80 | 421.70 | 435.30 | 451.50 |
| June Crude | N | 109.40 | 111.56 | 106.90 | 110.80 | 115.03 | 116.34 |
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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