Thursday, July 5, 2012

Indices closed @ 0% to <.47%>

Indices were taken by all the commentary from UK, ECB, China. Rate cut from all 3 were outweighed by press conference of ECB chief, who highlighted EU economic challenges.

S&P 500 closed @ 1367.58

RSI @ 59.51

Oil @ $87.22

Gold $1609.40

VIX closed UP 5.04% @ 17.50

AH ER / News :

STX Down 3.03%

INFA Down 25.29%

AH Futures Down

AH Asian Markets Mixed

AH Oil & Gold Down

About market, Jobs report consensus is 90K, for the first time there is euphoria about this report. GS has jumped its expectations today by 50K to 125K ( they must have seen a good dream all of a sudden or numbers were leaked to them ? ) so my guess goes with leaked number of 125K or higher. This report should give us a nice finish to another strong week.

BLOG does NOT give buy or sell.

Saleem

13 comments:

c said...

SALEEM

Looks like the market did not like the employment numbers
BIDU is down as in my APPLE

Copper is in the dumps
What happened to LVS

Did all things turn out OK for ya yesterday?

BLTA
C

Stocks100 said...

Hi C,

I live 1 hr drive from Downtown Toronto.....

Any specialty shopping, i have to go there......

2 hr is driving..rest was shopping time...came around 715PM.

80K is not bad for a trough.....

Saleem

c said...

SALEEM

thanks for reply....
My guess is market has to digest the numbers

Not much green on my board

C

Stocks100 said...

Hi C,

This gives a chance for market to take a rest..after huge run.....

Saleem

stocktrader_1996 said...

Hey Saleem,

The funny part about the 80k jobs is that without the ADP number yesterday to get everyone juiced up, we would have been about right inline.

Ugly day today so far--looking for maybe a better close?

Stocktrader

Stocks100 said...

Hi Stocktrader,

VIX is only UP 2.63%.....which gives better than 80 to 1 chance of better close.....

Saleem

stocktrader_1996 said...

Hey Saleem,

I noticed the $VIX also--hopefully it does play out well for bulls :).

Sold NVDA at 13.26 and bought MSTR at 118.01. When I can sell TNA next week, I can buy the NVDA back or possibly wait until after earnings.

Stocktrader

Stocks100 said...

Hi Stocktrader,

MSTR..used to be $300 stock..many years ago..i think it was $1000 @ one time in 1999......

Good luck with MSTR.

Saleem

stocktrader_1996 said...

Hey Saleem,

Yes, I remember that debacle--an earnings restatement dropped the stock in half in one day.

I saw an interview with the CEO on Bloomberg last night and was extremely impressed with his visionary growth plan and their current relationship with Facebook. I'll take a flier on it down 12.5% on someone else's earnings warning.

Stocktrader

Stocks100 said...

Hi Stocktrader,

I still remember owners name Sayler or something like that..was known as most eligible bachelor worth several Billions....those were the days....

Saleem

stocktrader_1996 said...

Hey c,

Dry bulk shippers do look interesting here--I'm looking at my favorite GNK again...

Stocktrader

c said...

I did not look at tankers
this week!

My SFL I sold for a profit

I need to see the price of oil move to get excited again..... GNK just crossed the 50 day average--hmmmm

I have traded DRYS which is so cheep
the very best to ya

C

stocktrader_1996 said...

Hey c,

Yes, I looked at DRYS also and it looked good, but GNK has slightly better leverage to the day rates. I would stick with dry bulk since oil looks squishy here, and Japan restarting their nuclear reactors could dampen oil tanker demand.

I might buy some GNK in a small pure trading account I have. I'm not sure I can put together a longer term thesis for these yet to stick in the IRA.

Stocktrader