* Nonfarm payrolls seen flat in September * Private employment likely edged up 75,000 * Unemployment rate seen rising to 9.7 pct from 9.6 pct * Average work seen steady at 34.2 hours By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. economy probably added no jobs in… read more
Tag Archives: Commodity Trading
Swing Trading Strategies – How I used the Median line to project the reversal date and target objective in Crude oil. [chart]
This daily chart of the November (2010) Crude oil, offers a very good example the importance of understanding the influence the median line can have on a market. Dr. Alan Andrew’s Median Line Trading Principle #1 states – ”When a median line is drawn from the most recent swings, the price should return to the median line approximately 80%… read more
Swing Trading Strategies – RT Swing Trader current trade signals. [chart]
The RT Swing Trader is a unique online swing trading program combining veteran trader and author John Crane’s ‘Action/Reaction’ and market timing methods with a selective set of Elliott Wave and Fibonacci principals to analyze market action and project future market swings. Check out the current open positions. Go to www.reversaltracker.com to sign up for… read more
Jobless Claims / Future Broker
WASHINGTON (AP) — Applications for unemployment benefits fell last week for the fourth time in five weeks, a sign that layoffs are declining. The Labor Department said Thursday that initial claims for jobless aid dropped by 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 445,000. It’s the lowest level since the week ending July 10. Stock futures rose… read more
Swing Trading Strategies – What does “action-reaction’ tell us about the Crude oil now? [chart]
Now that the long November Crude oil swing trade (long from 77.55) has reached the target objective, (83.45) I think it is a good time to review the trade signal and see how “action-reaction ” helped determine the entry, direction, duration and distance (target objective) before the trade was entered. Crude oil had undergone a corrective pullback that… read more
Crude Oil Inventory Report / Futures Broker
NEW YORK, Oct 6 (Reuters) – U.S. crude oil futures prices extended losses on Wednesday in choppy trading after a government oil inventory report showed crude stocks rose more than expected last week. The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s weekly report said the nation’s crude oil inventories rose by 3.09 million barrels in the week to… read more
Grain Calls and News / Future Trading
WHEAT – Up 2 to 3 cents per bushel. Support from a weak dollar and a technical short-covering bounce following recent declines. * Overall satisfactory weather is seen for winter wheat planting in Russia and in the U.S., but dryness a bit of a concern in the U.S. east and south and in the far… read more
Grain Calls and News / Futures Broker
WHEAT – Up 6 to 7 cents per bushel. Falling dollar and short-covering amid oversold technicals combine to lift wheat futures. * USDA late on Monday said 53 percent of the U.S. winter wheat crop had been planted, up from 33 percent a week ago and slightly behind the five-year average of 54 percent. *… read more
Swing Trading Strategies – Silver trades into a cluster of Reversal dates, what does that mean? [chart]
December Silver advanced into a cluster of reversal dates (Tuesday, September 28 and Wednesday, September 29). Silver reached the reaction line price objective in concurrence with the reversal date cluster. This combination will typically have a strong influence on the next market direction over the short-term. Thursday—the “trail day”—began with a trade above the September 29thhigh, reaching… read more
Argiculture Report /Futures Broker
CHICAGO, Sept 30 (Reuters) – The U.S. Agriculture Department on Thursday pegged U.S. corn stocks as of Sept. 1 at 1.708 billion bushels, above trade for 1.412 billion bushels. Stocks stood at 1.673 billion a year ago. The USDA, in its quarterly grain stocks report, estimated soybean ending stocks on Sept. 1 at 151.1 million… read more