Emini Futures Trading / A Rally To Nowhere?
March 21, 2011 at 9:00 PM E-Mini S&P 500 up only to sell again!
The E-Mini S&P 500 had an inside to higher day as we had anticipated. Today, we started lower and gradually worked up to closing near the highs. The nuclear reactors in Japan have been contained as engineers struggled to get them back online to cool the reactors. Some were possibly ruined as initially the workers had drawn sea water to cool the reactors. Progress in Japan has somewhat created a positive outlook for the marketplace. Warren Buffett has even come out to forecast the Japanese stock as buying opportunities. Note that the Japanese have a long road ahead with possible food contamination, economic strain to rebuild the country, care for the dislocated workers and potentially issue relief programs for the people. In many cases they may be virtually building their cities from scratch. Libya has been a sore spot for the US for many years. The Western World has been regarded as more of an adversary to the Middle Eastern countries. NATO has issued the no fly zone and air strikes have been dispensed to Libya targets. The US clarifies our stance as not to oust President Gaddafi, but to protect the people of the Middle East. We await the outcome of this intervention.
The tone in the stock indices was given a boost by AT&T Inc.’s offer to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion. This would be one of the largest acquisitions so far this year. Mergers and Acquisitions seem to work well to stimulate the economy and lead to a positive investor sentiment.
Today’s reports: US Existing Home Sales were down 9.6%. Previously used homes suffered in February reaching a 9 year low perhaps a sign that our recovery may be more gradual than anticipated. We still have many homes on the market to sell and foreclosures are still on the rise. Inflation is still important to our recovery and the Crude Oil prices just seem to keep on rising. Unemployment is the other key component
Tuesday, we have no major US Economic Reports due out.
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Tuesday, what to expect! We are technically still in sell mode, but on the threshold of the buy mode! Today’s range was $1296.25 - $1274.75. The market settled at $1293.00. Our comfort zone or point of control for this market appears to be $1290.00. We remain bearish, thinking that our E-Mini S&P 500 may start the day higher tomorrow and end lower toward the end of the day. We view this as perhaps a possible short set-up with a potential range of $1298.00 - $1284.00
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Leslie Burton
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