Wednesday, April 28, 2010

4/28 Morningline: Other Indicators

The euro partially recovered against the dollar (EUR/USD) this morning, but without a lot of conviction.

The dollar strengthened against the yen (USD/JPY), moving back to where it began yesterday.
trendadxpsarppsmacdmacd
trend
stosto
trend
JNK $39.83
GLD $113.72
USO $39.50
EEM $41.72
EUR/USD $1.3184
USD/JPY ¥93.92
At 10:04 a.m. Eastern

By all key measures, the markets are having second thoughts about yesterday's mini-panic. Calmer heads have prevailed. The lifeboats are being brought back aboard. A downgrade of Greek debt is, after all, not the end of the Worlds as We Know It.

Running down the list:
  • High-yield corporate debt (JNK), up from yesterday's close (henceforth "ufyc")
  • Emerging markets (EEM), ufyc.
  • Gold (GLD), ufyc.
  • Oil (USO), down fyc.
I think this is called the calm after the storm.

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Abbreviations:
psar - Parabolic Stop and Reverse
adx - Average Directional Index
pps - Person's Proprietary Signal
ma20 - 20-day moving average
macd - Moving Average Convergence-Divergence
mfi - Money Flow Index
sto - Fast Stochastic


About the glance: The colors indicate the state of each signal.

  • trend: Determined by the 5-day moving average, green for up, red for down, yellow for sideways
  • adx: orange for above 30-up, blue for 20-down, purple for in the middle. Red is most prone to whipsaws
  • psar, pps, macd: green for bull mode, red for bear
  • sto: green for overbought, red for oversold, yellow for the neutral zone.


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