Monthly Archives: May 2011

State Street Investor Confidence Index : Futures Trading, Trading in Futures, Futures Brokers, Futures Trading Brokerage

State Street Investor Confidence Index came in at 104.1 was at 97.0 North America, State Street’s sentiment index was up 7 points… read more

Chicago PMI Numbers Slow – Futures Trading, Trading in Futures, Futures Brokers, Futures Trading Brokerage

Chicago PMI which compiles a survey and composite of diffusion of business conditions in the Chicago area showed a large slowing in new orders month on month. The Chicago PMI was down by 11 points in May 56.6 to indicate the slowest rate of monthly growth since November.  New orders declined by 13 points to 53.5; the worsed reading… read more

Consumer Confidence : Futures Trading, Commodities Trading, Futures Trading Brokerage, Futures Brokers, Futures News

Consumer confidence index rose 1.6 points in April to 65.4. February’s 72.0, April was the best reading of the recovery. Improvement in the jobs market was the reason for the gain.  Headline was a 2.6 percentage point drop in those saying jobs are currently hard to get to 41.8 percent. Consumers are seeing improvement in… read more

S&P Case-Shiller HPI : Futures Trading, Commodities Trading, Futures Trading Brokerage, Futures Brokers, Futures News

S&P Case-Shiller report which says its latest data confirm a double dip for still falling home prices. Case-Shiller composite 10 index is down 0.1 % and down 0.2% for composite 20. Year-on-year rates at -2.8%  for the 10 index and -3.5% for the 20… read more

Bank of Canada Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged – Futures Trading, Commodity trading, Futures trading Brokerages, Futures brokers

The BoC left interest rates unchanged this morning.  The overnight rate remains at 1.0%,  the deposit rate remains at 0.75% and the Bank Rate at 1.25%   Prior Consensus Actual Change 0 bp 0 bp 0 bp Level 1.0 % 1.0 % 1.0 %  … read more

Futures and Commodities May be Finding a Base – Futures Trading, Commodities Trading, Futures Trading Brokerage, Futures Brokers, Futures News

[display_podcast] Good Morning I am Samson Jagoras coming to you from the Traders Network trading desk on Tuesday May 31st. As you would expect after any holiday, three day weekend, the markets were anxious to move.  We traded both sides to start the night off only to see all most of the markets move higher against… read more

Memorial day – Holiday trading hours

Sunday – Globex Treasuries, stock indices and currencies open regular time Sunday evening and close at 12:00 noon on Monday. Globex energies and precious metals open regular time Sunday evening and close at 12:15 on Monday.  Dollar index open regular time Sunday evening and closes at 12:00 Monday. – All other markets closed   Monday – All markets… read more

Reversal dates for the week of May 30 through June 3. – swing trading strategies, market timing, futures broker, price action, sing trade signals

Monday – 5/30/11 – Treasury bonds Tuesday – 5/31/11 – Crude oil, RBOB gas, S&P, British pound Wednesday – 6/1/11 – Coffee Thursday – 6/2/11 – Cattle, Hogs, Soybeans, Bean oil, Canadian dollar, Australian dollar, Swiss Franc Friday – 6/3/11 – Silver, Gold, Eurocurrency, Sugar For more information about reversal dates go to www.tradersnetwork.com… read more