Daily Market Analysis

MARKET REVIEW – WEDNESDAY 22 FEBRUARY, 2012 Originally Posted by Conrad on Wednesday 22 February, 2012 Earnings Season officially comes to a close today AMC with the announcement of HPQ’s earings. Generally, it has not been a bad bunch of earnings but it has been broadly disappointing and under-whelming when compared to previous Quarter 1...

MARKET REVIEW – TUESDAY 21 FEBRUARY, 2012 Originally Posted by Conrad on Tuesday 21 February, 2012 Day after President’s Day is bearish with the S&P going down 7 of the last 11 and the week after Expiration Week is very bearish; DOW down 10 of the last 13. February is known to end poorly so...

MARKET REVIEW – FRIDAY 17 FEBRUARY, 2012 Originally Posted by Conrad on Saturday 11 February, 2012 After the second best session last Friday (3 Feb), we get the worst session since December 2011. All it took was one session to wipe out a week of gains … But the truth is, its not enough. Although...

MARKET REVIEW – THURSDAY 16 FEBRUARY, 2012 Originally Posted by Conrad on Thursday 16 February, 2012 On Wednesday, leadership to the downside continued but Health Care, Consumer Staples and Energy were the lest affected. Volumes were comparable but overall, still on the weak side … Once again, the market has a slew of data to...

MARKET REVIEW – WEDNESDAY 15 FEBRUARY, 2012 Originally Posted by Conrad on Wednesday 15 February, 2012 The data on tap today shouldn’t spring any downside surprises but my fear is that in this nervous and overbought market, even data that is “not good enough” is going to be a catalyst for that long awaited correction....

MARKET REVIEW – TUESDAY 14 FEBRUARY, 2012 Originally Posted by Conrad on Tuesday 14 February, 2012 Personally, I am praying we don’t go down today for obvious reasons. Sensibly, the market should correct. I’m torn. But I am also hedged and if the market does go down, that’s great for my portfolio and I might...

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! MARKET REVIEW – MONDAY 13 FEBRUARY, 2012 Originally Posted by Conrad on Monday 13 February, 2012 We now stand on the verge of a second DFDM in three weeks. And with this week being traditionally bearish starting with Monday, I’ll be ready to sell more calls if I get a bearish entry...

MARKET PREVIEW – MONDAY 13 FEBRUARY, 2012 BMO Originally Posted by Originally Posted by Conrad on Saturday 11 February, 2012 From Monday to Thursday, the market had to fight back from early rounds of massive profit taking. This all came to pass on Friday when the market no longer wanted to fight back anymore after opening...

Before we get hit with another year of market madness, let's quickly revisit and recap December 2011 and the year that just went by. ...