Archive for March, 2012

• Trade Review: Event Driven Trades in BBY & RIMM
  Posted by Robert Sinn on March 30th, 2012 at 12:43 pm, Comments: 0

  Earnings reaction trades are probably my favorite (read most profitable) type of short term trading strategy but they are far from easy and you really [...]

• Market Commentary – 3/29/2012
  Posted by Robert Sinn on March 29th, 2012 at 3:13 pm, Comments: 0

  Over the past few weeks we’ve seen a concerted effort to talk down the price of oil ($BNO $CL_F $USO) by European governments, the Obama [...]

• A Passage to India
  Posted by Robert Sinn on March 29th, 2012 at 10:27 am, Comments: 0

  US investors tend to focus heavily on China and not much on its neighbor which is the second most populous nation on earth, India. This [...]

• The Next 50 points in the S&P – 1350 or 1450?
  Posted by Robert Sinn on March 28th, 2012 at 4:03 pm, Comments: 0

  With the first quarter of 2012 winding to a close the S&P 500 ($ES_F $SPY $SPX) is wrestling with the 1400 level – Will the [...]

• Commodities Carnage
  Posted by Robert Sinn on March 28th, 2012 at 11:23 am, Comments: 0

  Are you listening to what the commodity related equities are saying? It’s a pretty powerful message of a major slowdown in China which will weigh [...]

• Remember Europe?
  Posted by Robert Sinn on March 27th, 2012 at 3:04 pm, Comments: 0

  Yeah, I know, we had enough of Europe last year and Europe doesn’t matter to US markets anymore. But just in case Europe does matter [...]

• What Tim Tebow Can Teach Us About Financial Markets
  Posted by Robert Sinn on March 27th, 2012 at 10:57 am, Comments: 0

  Yesterday I found myself watching the Tim Tebow Jets press conference – aside from being the nicest and most positive guy on the planet Tim [...]

• Party Like it’s 1999?
  Posted by Robert Sinn on March 27th, 2012 at 7:41 am, Comments: 0

  The NASDAQ-100 ($QQQ) is on track to post its 13th consecutive weekly gain and people have begun comparing the current rally with 1999, let’s take [...]

• Bernanke’s Poker Game – Part II
  Posted by Robert Sinn on March 26th, 2012 at 3:29 pm, Comments: 0

  Three weeks ago I wrote “Bernanke’s Poker Game” wherein I compared the Fed Chairman to a poker player. Today’s speech by Bernanke in which he [...]

• Rethinking Stop Losses
  Posted by Robert Sinn on March 26th, 2012 at 11:35 am, Comments: 0

  The use of stop-losses is one of the most basic and sacred rules of trading. To trade without using stop losses is virtually akin to [...]