Trading the S&P 500 Into Tomorrow

With all the bad news hitting the news wires the U.S. market actually held in better than I thought it would.

Euro

The Euro continues to be under pressure for the 8th straight session. As headlines hit the wires about Greece and Spain market participants look to move away from the risk appetite assets send money flowing out of the Euro and into the U.S. dollar. Playing the move Euro move

Breaking News - American Greetings

Breaking News – American Greetings Receives Offer

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Tuesday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. futures are holding their own going into the Wednesday’s session amidst Asian and European markets solidly in the red.  Both the Asian and European regions are selling off on concerns from yesterday’s U.S. session and comments from non-voting FMOC member, Charles Plosser comments that QE3 will not provide the stimulus that the Federal Reserve is looking to obtain. Market participants will get

Energy Report

The overnight markets have attempted once again to recover from some of the punches it has taken in the gut over the past few weeks. It’s amazing to look back at seasonal trades and think “why didn’t I respond to what history has taught me”? One of the biggest seasonal trades in grains is to sell the market through September, this has been no different yet on September 1st the perception was that this year is different. Well if we look back at history again there is typically a quick 50% retracement of the September losses during the first few weeks of October.

Breaking News - Case-Shiller Index

Breaking News – Case-Shiller Index higher for the 6th month.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Tuesday’s Morning Coffee Break – History repeated itself as the Dow Jones dropped for the 15th Monday out of 16th weeks.  U.S. futures are suggesting positive opening in early electronic trading with the Dow Jones fair value at 18.08, S&P 500 fair value 1.66 and the NASDAQ’s fair value coming in at 4.12.

Introducing The Daily Energy Report by Tom Pawlicki

Curve Ahead Market Strategies is proud to introduce the EOXLive Daily Energy Report by Director of Market Research, Tom Pawlicki at EOX Holdings wholly owned subsidiary of OTC Global Holdings.

Master Card Could Be Poised To Move

After hitting its 52week high back on May 1st of this year Master Card (MA, quote) traded in a range from around $400 to $440 until it began to march higher back towards the 52 week high starting on September 6th.  Since then the last 7 sessions Mater Card has traded sideways and has now pulled back to the near term trendline and has held the trendline support for the

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break –despite losses last week U.S. markets are firmly in the green as market participants head into the last week of September and the final week of the 3rd quarter. Markets are in the green as well for the 3rd quarter putting markets on target to be the best year since 2009.