Top Day Recommendations
11.21.11
This is a light day in terms of economic releases. All we get is existing home sales at 10 o’clock.
In the bigger picture, the super-committee will throw in the towel today, unable and/or unwilling to compromise on a mix of specific spending cuts and tax increases that were designed to save taxpayers $1.2 trillion over the next decade. In fact, the committee can’t even agree as to where it went wrong. Consequently, draconian measures will go into effect in 2013 leaving everyone unhappy, particularly the Defense Department.
Over the weekend, Spain has a new government. The dollar is stronger, bonds are higher and everything else is lower. The outside support on a weekly basis for gold is 1658 and that number may be achieved.
Week of November 21 - November 25
| Date | ET | Release | For | Actual | Briefing.com Briefing.com | Prior | Revised | |
| Forecast | Consensus | From | ||||||
| Nov | 10:00 | Existing Home Sales | Oct | 5.00M | 4.85M | 4.91M | ||
| 21 | ||||||||
| Nov | 08:30 | GDP - Second | Q3 | 2.3% | 2.5% | 2.5% | ||
| 22 | Estimate | |||||||
| Nov | 08:30 | GDP Deflator - | Q3 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | ||
| 22 | Second Estimate | |||||||
| Nov | 14:00 | FOMC Minutes | Nov. 2 | |||||
| 22 | ||||||||
| Nov | 07:00 | MBA Mortgage Index | 11/19 | NA | NA | -10.0% | ||
| 23 | ||||||||
| Nov | 08:30 | Initial Claims | 11/19 | 400K | 391K | 388K | ||
| Date | ET | Release | For | Actual | Briefing.com Briefing.com | Prior | Revised | |
| Forecast | Consensus | From | ||||||
| 23 | ||||||||
| Nov | 08:30 | Continuing Claims | 11/12 | 3650K | 3620K | 3608K | ||
| 23 | ||||||||
| Nov | 08:30 | Personal Income | Oct | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.1% | ||
| 23 | ||||||||
| Nov | 08:30 | Personal Spending | Oct | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.6% | ||
| 23 | ||||||||
| Nov | 08:30 | PCE Prices - Core | Oct | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | ||
| 23 | ||||||||
| Nov | 08:30 | Durable Orders | Oct | -1.0% | -1.0% | -0.6% | -0.8% | |
| 23 | ||||||||
| Nov | 08:30 | Durable Orders -ex | Oct | 0.3% | 0.0% | 1.8% | 1.7% | |
| 23 | Transportation | |||||||
| Nov | 09:55 | Michigan Sentiment - | Nov | 63.5 | 64.2 | 64.2 | ||
| 23 | Final | |||||||
| Nov | 10:30 | Crude Inventories | 11/19 | NA | NA | - | ||
| 23 | 1.056M | |||||||
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 | 1166.50 | 1206 | 1196.50 | 1226 | 1254 | 1294.50 |
| Dec | D | 2165.75 | 2238.75 | 2222.00 | 2276.00 | 2333.00 | 2416.25 |
| Nasdaq | |||||||
| Dec | U | 128.02 | 129.01 | 129.70 | 130.48 | 130.83 | 131.66 |
| Yen | |||||||
| Dec EC | PRD | 132.011 | 133.57 | 134.35 | 136.02 | 137.31 | 139.49 |
| (U) | |||||||
| Dec 10 | U | 128.29 | 129.19 | 129.31 | 130.24 | 130.31 | 131.20 |
| Year | |||||||
| Dec 30 | U | 138.18 | 140.22 | 142.02 | 143.17 | 144.09 | 145.24 |
| Year | |||||||
| Jan | D | 11.22 | 11.45 | 11.54 | 11.79 | 11.98 | 12.29 |
| Soybea | |||||||
| ns | |||||||
| Dec | D | 5.73 | 6.06 | 6.02 | 6.17 | 6.38 | 6.66 |
| Corn | |||||||
| Dec | U | 1658 | 1692 | 1697 | 1738 | 1778 | 1831 |
| Gold | |||||||
| Dec | U | 28.76 | 30.59 | 31.36 | 33.03 | 34.58 | 36.75 |
| Silver | |||||||
| Dec | U | 318 | 329 | 334 | 345 | 354 | 369 |
| Copper | |||||||
| Jan | PRD | 92.61 | 95.20 | 96.14 | 99.74 | 101.87 | 105.95 |
| Crude | (D) | ||||||
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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