Commodities

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Morning Coffee Break – Monday April 1 In today’s Morning Coffee Break we find as traders come to their trading systems after a 3 day weekend and the start of the second quarter have several milestones to build on from record closes on the Dow and S&P 500. 

SLV Silver

As the old saying goes, another day and another dollar. Well not quite, and for silver traders it’s getting to the stage where a dollar move in the trading session would be considered a significant one! Yesterday’s trading, certainly didn’t break the mould of the last few weeks, and traders must be wondering if this market is every going to break.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Morning Coffee Break – Wednesday March 27 Today’s Morning Coffee Break is finding U.S. equity futures are indicating a lower open this morning after yesterday’s push higher towards an all-time high of less than two points in the S&P 500.

WTI crude oil futures continue in bullish tone

Crude oil futures started the week in bullish tone, with the April WTI contract closing higher at $94.81 per barrel, up almost $1.50 in the session, and ending with a wide spread up candle, but with a small wick to the upper body. Nevertheless, despite the upper shadow, sentiment for crude oil remains firmly bullish, and yesterday’s oil trading session gave us some strong signals for the next few days.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Morning Coffee Break – Friday March 22 U.S. equity markets are pointing to higher open on the first day of the week of a short week.  All three U.S. indexes are in the green on a Cyprus last minute bailout plan that was approved by European Union Finance Ministers.

Gold now building rising triangle pattern on the daily chart

Gold continued to ease higher once again yesterday, with May gold futures on Globex closing at $1613.80 per ounce, up just over $8 per ounce in the session and ending with a narrow spread up candle, supported by average daily volume.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Morning Coffee Break – Friday March 22 As we get ready to start the final session of the week traders will be without a doubt will be focused on the developments in Cyprus.  Or should I say lack of development as Cyprus leaders’ hopes for a Russia bailout loan has fallen part and are going into the weekend with no deal and the European Central Bank deadline set for Monday

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Morning Coffee Break – Thursday March 21 With no significant impact from the Federal Reserve’s two day meeting and statement the S&P 500 is coming off its largest gain in over two weeks.  The crisis over in Cyprus hasn’t even deterred the U.S. equities from moving higher.

Dr copper requires some medical attention!

Doctor copper is anything but on the daily chart, as the May futures contract traded lower once again today, following yesterday’s sharp sell off, which saw the metal end the commodities trading session with a wide-spread down candle, finally propelling copper below the recent sideways price congestion which has been in place since early March.

Chesapeake Energy Corporation $2.3B Bond Offer Hits Snag

Chesapeake Energy Corporation (CHK, quote) announced today it plans to offer $2.3 billion of senior notes in order to help fund a tender offer worth about $938 million in outstanding senior notes.