Archive for the ‘Elliott Squawk’ Category
Squawk Morning Briefing: All in a Twist
Today the FOMC begins a scheduled two-day meeting. The extended format is reported to accommodate more discussion of monetary policy, and “accommodate” is an appropriate word. Now we’ll preface this by saying that we are neither Fed watchers nor economists, but some writing seems to be on the wall: We see middle-of-the-road board members making […]
Squawk DJIA Briefing for 9/20/2011
Below is our evening update for the DJIA. Tomorrow morning we will update the outlook for the other markets we cover.
Squawk Morning Briefing: Seek And Ye Shall Seek
We have made some adjustments to how we encode the Squawk videos. So now if you want to slide the progress bar to seek forward or backward in the videos you can do it. Hopefully this will make things easier for everyone. This affects all videos going forward, but we’ll also try and go back […]
Squawk DJIA Briefing for 9/19/2011
Below is our evening update for the DJIA. Tomorrow morning we will update the outlook for the other markets we cover.
Squawk Morning Briefing: A Day of Rest?
Today might end up being a good day to take a break. Don’t get us wrong, we won’t, but it might not be a bad choice. Some people avoid expiration Friday by policy and we often avoid daytrading on such days. To establish longer-term positions we want to have some confidence in the broader picture […]
Squawk DJIA Briefing for 09/16/2011
Below is our evening update for the DJIA. Tomorrow morning we will update the outlook for the other markets we cover.
Squawk Morning Briefing: News During Expiration
Expiration week has a way of exaggerating moves. If positions which looked like they might expire worthless suddenly have value then it can drive prices either up or down depending on which side is closing positions.
The last month has been mostly sideways in a wide range. Options speculators who may have been looking for a […]
Squawk DJIA Briefing for 09/15/2011
Below is our evening update for the DJIA. Tomorrow morning we will update the outlook for the other markets we cover. It’s a pretty long update this evening in order to work through all the logic that leads to our conclusion. Hopefully it’s worth it.
Squawk Morning Briefing: Expiration Bias
With all the news about European sovereign debt it is easy to lose track of the fact that this is options expiration week in the U. S. as well as quarterly index futures expiration. It is also worth noting that September tends to be seasonally weak, with expiration week typically standing out with a somewhat […]
Squawk DJIA Briefing for 9/14/2011
Below is our evening update for the DJIA. Tomorrow morning we will update the outlook for the other markets we cover.