Top Day Recommendations
12.07.11
It is a light economic calendar yet again today with just oil inventories out at 1030. Also we get consumer credit at three o’clock well after the European close.
The only blip overnight was news out of the ECB. They have lowered their standards for collateral to create new loans. In other words, they are allowing riskier assets into the credit pool. The pop to the market lasted all of 90 seconds. It did cause a swell in gold prices as the move is potentially inflationary and a devaluation of currency. ECB also considering interest rate cuts, a gold positive. Of course, a European recession would be a gold negative. Ten year notes are higher on a flight to quality. Crude is waiting around for the inventory numbers and the world waits for Friday’s European summit.
Week of December 05 - December 09
Date | ET | Release | For | Actual | Briefing.com Briefing.com | Prior | Revised | |
Forecast | Consensus | From | ||||||
Dec | 10:00 | Factory Orders | Oct | -0.6% | -0.4% | 0.3% | ||
05 | ||||||||
Dec | 10:00 | ISM Services | Nov | 53.0 | 53.4 | 52.9 | ||
05 | ||||||||
Dec | 07:00 | MBA Mortgage Index | 12/03 | NA | NA | -11.7% | ||
07 | ||||||||
Date | ET | Release | For | Actual | Briefing.com Briefing.com | Prior | Revised | |
Forecast | Consensus | From | ||||||
Dec | 10:30 | Crude Inventories | 12/03 | NA | NA | 3.932M | ||
07 | ||||||||
Dec | 15:00 | Consumer Credit | Oct | $7.0B | $7.0B | $7.4B | ||
07 | ||||||||
Dec | 08:30 | Initial Claims | 12/03 | 400K | 395K | 402K | ||
08 | ||||||||
Dec | 08:30 | Continuing Claims | 11/26 | 3700K | 3700K | 3740K | ||
08 | ||||||||
Dec | 10:00 | Wholesale | Oct | 0.2% | 0.2% | -0.1% | ||
08 | Inventories | |||||||
Dec | 08:30 | Trade Balance | Oct | -$44.0B | -$44.0B | - | ||
09 | $43.1B | |||||||
Dec | 09:55 | Mich Sentiment | Dec | 63.0 | 65.0 | 64.1 | ||
09 | ||||||||
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 | U | 1131.50 | 1187.50 | 1250 | 1265.50 | 1281 | 1318 |
Dec | PRD | 2108 | 2206 | 2309 | 2338 | 2372.50 | 2442 |
Nasdaq | (U) | ||||||
Dec | PRD | 126.80 | 127.47 | 128.29 | 128.87 | 129.11 | 130.08 |
Yen | (U) | ||||||
Dec EC | U | 131.14 | 132.59 | 133.52 | 134.48 | 135.50 | 136.95 |
Mar 10 | D | 127.17 | 128.19 | 129.045 | 129.19 | 130.24 | 131.26 |
Year | |||||||
Mar 30 | D | 137.17 | 139.22 | 140.08 | 141.18 | 144.01 | 146.07 |
Year | |||||||
Mar | U | 11.07 | 11.26 | 11.324 | 11.44 | 11.39 | 11.47 |
Soybea | |||||||
ns | |||||||
March | D | 5.78 | 5.86 | 5.85 | 6.02 | 6.09 | 6.24 |
Corn | |||||||
Feb | U | 1653.9 | 1701.550 | 1712.7 | 1743 | 1781 | 1814 |
Gold | |||||||
Mar | D | 29.89 | 31.29 | 31.94 | 33.24 | 33.91 | 35.13 |
Silver | |||||||
Mar | U | 317 | 338 | 353 | 361 | 371 | 383 |
Copper | |||||||
Jan | U | 95.38 | 98.25 | 100.51 | 102.18 | 103.97 | 104.62 |
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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