HEDLines – Archive

We have been waiting for a fresh signal to buy grains and now we have two. Soya beans made a bottom extension yesterday while wheat compressed and may now be breaking upward today. It is too early in the day…

The sharp drops in equity prices late last week are significant. Many indices have been compressing at a weekly scale for a long while and this drop was a clear break. This is where new trends start, so there will…

The purchase of either the MDax or more probably the CAC that we recommended in the August 17th edition was originally issued with the usual 1% stop-loss. We proposed to update that and now we have fresh information we can…

We have been more bullish about many stock markets lately and now there are several European markets that have fallen back into areas where we expect to find support. Experienced readers will know that there is an important feature of…

Equity indices in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore all made bottom extensions yesterday and have rallied so far today. The rallies have been modest compared with the sharp move up from yesterday’s lows in the main US indices but it seems…

As has been widely written, Greek stocks dropped sharply on the re-opening of the Athens stock market after the recent cliff-hanger. In such circumstances it is normal for our systems to generate a bottom extension signal which we ignore –…

We have been more positive about several stock markets recently and now here is another candidate – one of the Singapore indices made a bottom extension last night (the trading day of the 4th August, local time). We are now…

Crude oil futures made bottom extensions yesterday, both in the Nymex WTI front month of September (not shown here) and in several of the London Brent forward months, this chart being for the October delivery: This is as good a…

The US REIT index has been compressed for the last week and today we are finally breaking up. If prices remain above these compressions towards the end of today’s session then we recommend buying the iShares US Real Estate ETF…

In the 1914 battle of the Marne when France just managed to stop Germany from a quick victory in WW1 the fighting was still old-fashioned with no static trenches. The Germans were advancing quickly through disordered groups of demoralised French…