Top Day Recommendations
5.20.11
No data points today except for Canadian retail sales which came in on the soft side and consequently took the currency lower. Bundesbank says German growth rate slowing a bit. FX option expiration day as well as grain options expiry. There apparently, as of this moment, will not be a restructuring of Greek debt and this has hit the EC and lifted the SF on crosses. Restructuring has been renamed "reprofiling." Interesting how crisis can generate its own nomenclature to deflect its reality somehow. A rose by any other name would…Linked- in was the story of the day, yesterday. It’s always amusing when an IPO is trading at a massive multiple of projected revenues, not earnings, revenues. The above the line number. Oh well, it’s spring and time for tulips. If only their shelf life was longer.
Week of May 16 - May 20
| Date | ET | Release | For | Actual | Briefing.com | Consensus | Prior | Revised From | |||||||||
| May 16 | 08:30 | Empire Manufacturing | May | 17 | 18 | 21.7 | |||||||||||
| May 16 | 09:00 | Net Long-Term TIC Flows | Mar | NA | NA | $26.9B | |||||||||||
| May 16 | 10:00 | NAHB Housing Market Index | May | 16 | 16 | 16 | |||||||||||
| May 17 | 08:30 | Housing Starts | Apr | 530K | 565K | 549K | |||||||||||
| May 17 | 08:30 | Building Permits | Apr | 570K | 590K | 594K | |||||||||||
| May 17 | 09:15 | Industrial Production | Apr | 0.4% | 0.5% | 0.8% | |||||||||||
| May 17 | 09:15 | Capacity Utilization | Apr | 77.5% | 77.7% | 77.4% | |||||||||||
| May 18 | 07:00 | MBA Mortgage Index | 05/13 | NA | NA | +8.2% | |||||||||||
| May 18 | 10:30 | Crude Inventories | 05/14 | NA | NA | 3.781M | |||||||||||
| May 18 | 14:00 | FOMC Minutes | May | ||||||||||||||
| May 19 | 08:30 | Initial Claims | 05/14 | 400K | 420K | 434K | |||||||||||
| May 19 | 08:30 | Continuing Claims | 05/07 | 3700K | 3713K | 3756K | |||||||||||
| May 19 | 10:00 | Existing Home Sales | Apr | 5.40M | 5.22M | 5.10M | |||||||||||
| May 19 | 10:00 | Philadelphia Fed | May | 15 | 17.5 | 18.5 | |||||||||||
| May 19 | 10:00 | Leading Indicators | Apr | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.4% | |||||||||||
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 | P | 1311 | 1322.50 | 1335 | 1346 | 1352` | 1369 |
| S+P | |||||||
| Emini Naz | P | 2338.50 | 2363.50 | 2357 | 2377 | 2400.50 | 2431 |
| Yen | P | 121.97` | 122.84 | 121.88 | 123.02 | 124.68 | 125.65 |
| EC | N | 138.21 | 139.60 | 141.352 | 143.48 | 143.46 | 145.69 |
| 10 Year | P | 121.05 | 121.26 | 122.022 | 122.27 | 123.02 | 123.20 |
| 30 Year | P | 122.21 | 123.17 | 124 | 125.03 | 125.07 | 126.01 |
| Soybeans | P | 12.88 | 13.08 | 13.69 | 13.89 | 13.55 | 13.804 |
| Corn | P | 6.234 | 6.526 | 7.40 | 7.58 | 7.174 | 7.53 |
| June Gold | N | 1450.3 | 1472.2 | 1485 | 1506 | 1521.4 | 1548.7 |
| July Silver | P | 28.53 | 31.94 | 34.38 | 35.61 | 39.10 | 42.87 |
| July Copper | N | 375 | 387.7 | 402 | 415 | 410.80 | 421.10 |
| July Crude | N | 90.83 | 94.86 | 97.96 | 100.57 | 104.20 | 109.08 |
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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ARE DESCRIBED BELOW. NO REPRESENTATION IS
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LIKELY TO ACHIEVE PROFITS OR LOSSES SIMILAR
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EXAMPLE, THE ABILITY TO WITHSTAND LOSSES OR
TO ADHERE TO A PARTICULAR TRADING PROGRAM
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