Toddo on TV: Trading Tells in a Holiday Tape

Minyanville Staff  Aug 27, 2008 4:48 pm

Toddo on TV: Trading Tells in a Holiday Tape
 
Markets, movers and more.
 

 
Toddo attempts to look on the bright side, pointing out that there will always be a bull case and a bear case - and discussing the window for a rally.



Toddo offers five things to watch for daily clues on price action: market breadth when skewed 2:1 in either direction; the "super-tell duopoly" of Goldman Sachs (GS) and Google (GOOG); how big beta -- Research in Motion (RIMM), Apple (AAPL), Baidu (BIDU) and Google -- trades relative to an opening gap; outsized moves in the dollar and commodities as a sign of macro agendas; and how stocks with overnight news react to that news.

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08-27-2008, 6:48 pm
Is there a glitch in the 2nd video? It showed the intro and that's is!

The Holiday Tape reminds me of DEC-Jan chart pattern. They look rather similar, and that is a frightening thought.
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08-28-2008, 10:24 am
Remember that the January meltdown was caused by a three-day weekend in America that the rest of the world did not share, and consequently the two strong down days in Europe added up to the prospect of a massive downer in NY that Tuesday. My point i
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