Top Day Recommendations
11.18.11
Overnight, new Greek Prime Minister Papdemos gets cabinet approval for a Greek budget calling for a 5.4% deficit. This at least has calmed markets momentarily. Yesterday was not pretty with focus been applied to European bond yields, especially the fact that Spain sold 10 year paper with a 7% yield. 7% seems to be the tipping point. Above this level, governments will find it very difficult to fund themselves.
Gold’s weakness yesterday was due to the possibility of IMF sales.
Occupy Wall Street is becoming virulent. The escalating frustration of everyone involved is leading to actions the actors ultimately regret. The First Amendment is being badly interpreted. It gives the right to free speech and the right to congregate to express that speech but it doesn’t supply the right to occupy or the right to riotously express speech or damage property in that expression or threaten the common weal. Hindering the commerce of this city is counterproductive for everyone and comes with a societal cost no one can afford to pay.
Stay optimistic. Enjoy the weekend.
| Date | ET | Release | For | Actual | Briefing.com Briefing.com | Prior | Revised | |
| Forecast | Consensus | From | ||||||
| Nov | 08:30 | PPI | Oct | -0.2% | -0.2% | 0.8% | ||
| 15 | ||||||||
| Nov | 08:30 | Core PPI | Oct | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.2% | ||
| 15 | ||||||||
| Nov | 08:30 | Retail Sales | Oct | 0.6% | 0.4% | 1.1% | ||
| 15 | ||||||||
| Nov | 08:30 | Retail Sales ex-auto | Oct | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.6% | ||
| 15 | ||||||||
| Nov | 08:30 | Empire Manufacturing | Nov | 0.0 | 0.0 | -8.48 | ||
| 15 | ||||||||
| Nov | 10:00 | Business Inventories | Sep | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.5% | ||
| 15 | ||||||||
| Nov | 07:00 | MBA Mortgage Index | 11/12 | NA | NA | 10.3% | ||
| 16 | ||||||||
| Nov | 08:30 | CPI | Oct | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.3% | ||
| 16 | ||||||||
| Nov | 08:30 | Core CPI | Oct | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | ||
| 16 | ||||||||
| Nov | 09:00 | Net Long-Term TIC | Sep | NA | NA | $57.9B | ||
| 16 | Flows | |||||||
| Nov | 09:15 | Industrial Production | Oct | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.2% | ||
| 16 | ||||||||
| Nov | 09:15 | Capacity Utilization | Oct | 77.6% | 77.6% | 77.4% | ||
| 16 | ||||||||
| Nov | 10:00 | NAHB Housing | Nov | 18 | 18 | 18 | ||
| 16 | Market Index | |||||||
| Nov | 10:30 | Crude Inventories | 11/12 | NA | NA | - | ||
| 16 | 1.370M | |||||||
| Nov | 08:30 | Initial Claims | 11/12 | 400K | 400K | 390K | ||
| 17 | ||||||||
| Nov | 08:30 | Continuing Claims | 11/05 | 3650K | 3648K | 3615K | ||
| 17 | ||||||||
| Nov | 08:30 | Housing Starts | Oct | 575K | 603K | 658K | ||
| 17 | ||||||||
| Nov | 08:30 | Building Permits | Oct | 600K | 603K | 594K | ||
| 17 | ||||||||
| Nov | 10:00 | Philadelphia Fed | Nov | 5.0 | 7.5 | 8.7 | ||
| 17 | ||||||||
| Nov | 10:00 | Leading Indicators | Oct | 0.3% | 0.6% | 0.2% | ||
| 18 | ||||||||
Numbers are good up until the close of business today. These are strictly technical in nature, not fundamentally based or biased.
Legend
U is Up
D is Down
PRD is Potential Reversal Day
S2 is Weekly strong support
S1 is Weekly good support
DS is Daily Support
DR is Daily Resistance
R1 is Weekly Good Resistance
R2 is Weekly Strong Resistance
Levels are for the most active futures contract
Daily Support and Resistance
| Trend | WS2 | WS1 | DS | DR | WR1 | WR2 | |
| Dec ES | D | 1195.00 | 1228.00 | 1200.25 | 1235.00 | 1285.00 | 1308.50 |
| Dec | PRD | 2232.50 | 2291.00 | 2238.50 | 2315.00 | 2404.50 | 2458.50 |
| Nasdaq | (D) | ||||||
| Dec | U | 127.29 | 128.46 | 129.84 | 130.28 | 130.34 | 131.05 |
| Yen | |||||||
| Dec EC | D | 133.23 | 135.35 | 134.09 | 135.29 | 139.08 | 140.69 |
| Dec 10 | U | 128.27 | 129.10 | 130.13 | 131.03 | 130.20 | 131.15 |
| Year | |||||||
| Dec 30 | U | 138.10 | 139.12 | 142.07 | 144.02 | 142.10 | 144.06 |
| Year | |||||||
| Jan | U | 11.324 | 11.54 | 11.56 | 11.86 | 12.10 | 12.44 |
| Soybea | |||||||
| ns | |||||||
| Dec | D | 6.174 | 6.28 | 6.02 | 6.34 | 6.57 | 6.76 |
| Corn | |||||||
| Dec | PRD | 1708.80 | 1748.9 | 1698 | 1755 | 1816.7 | 1844.40 |
| Gold | (D) | ||||||
| Dec | PRD | 32.15 | 33.39 | 30.36 | 33.30 | 35.61 | 36.59 |
| Silver | (D) | ||||||
| Dec | PRD | 315 | 331 | 332 | 346 | 365 | 382 |
| Copper | (D) | ||||||
| Jan | U | 91.11 | 95.16 | 97.05 | 102.08 | 101.33 | 103.45 |
| Crude | |||||||
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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