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CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Tuesday’s Morning Coffee Break – Happy anniversary Mr. Market!  Today 5 years ago marks the closing highs for both the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indexes. It also marks the start of the downward move during the subsequent financial crisis.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Monday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. markets started the 4th quarter on uneven footing last week that somehow managed to pull off a positive week with the Dow Jones sitting at its best level since December 2007.

Trading the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology Index Fund

Our technical scans are highlighting rising wedge pattern in which price action touched the top of the range and is due to pullback as it has in the past.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Friday’s Morning Coffee Break – As market participants prepare for the final session of week and as traders prepare to close out the first week of the 4th quarter traders find the markets walking a thin line. As of yesterday’s close U.S. markets appear to be on track for their first positive week in 3 weeks. However, as the aforementioned thin line markets could swing to either side

Breaking News - Factory Orders

Breaking News – Factory Orders

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Thursday’s Morning Coffee Break – market participants will need to navigate several market directional influences today. The S&P 500 index has gains for 3 straight sessions with today’s futures suggesting a positive open once again.

Breaking News - ADP Report

Breaking News – ADP Report

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Wednesday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. markets start the third session of the week after two straight days of uneven trading.  One positive take away from yesterday’s session was the break in the final hour sell off that has persists the last few weeks.

CurveAheadMarketStrategies.com Morning Coffee Break

Welcome to Tuesday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S markets started off the 4th quarter with strong trading intraday gains, although the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indexes did close solidly in the green the markets did exhibit the most recent trend off lately of selling off into the close.  U.S. indexes closed well off their intraday highs with the NASDAQ falling into negative.   The averages ended the day well off

SLV Silver

Looking at the iShares Silver Trust (SLV, quote) ETF from the viewpoint of a technical standpoint the SLV is testing its previous high