Positions currently held at DS Financial are SDS, DTO, and VXX. Refer to our DS Trading Ledger, a new page where you can track the results of calls we’ve made, to see the entry points on these three positions. As of Monday’s close our positions are as follows:

This week will likely begin with some relief for the Euro, on G20 plans to cut costs in Euro states, while the hangover from Friday’s U.S. Jobs data could continue into a “no news” Monday trading session. Look for pops to add to shorts early in the week, but keep stops tight leading into Jobless claims and Friday’s data.

The “sell-off” is now two weeks young as red flags are hoisted daily above a mob of jaw dropped spectators, formerly known as the efficient market. There is no absence of questions on the minds of international market forecasters. Instead, we’re hearing vague rhetoric from analysts and financiers that sounds more like confusion than any sort of prediction. The confident ones are still playing the “buy because markets are down” card, but we are taking an alternative, perhaps disagreeable, path.

What is Quad Witching? Generally there’s a great deal of confusion concerning the term “quad witching” and what this day may constitute in financial markets. As a result, we would like to take this Quad Witching Friday, March 19, 2010, and demystify the phenomenon once and for all. “Witching” signifies the expiration of an entire group of
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The last week has seen 100 day moving averages torn apart, surprises from economic data reports, and one of the most notable sell-offs for stocks in some time. Recently, many home gamers and pros alike, have put financials out of their purview. The erratic and effectively risky nature of these names are less than inviting, but
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The January 11-15, 2009 week will be crucial to the movement of equities and commodities over the next month. This addition of the Weekly Spectrum will recap the December Employment report and explain which economic reports will affect U.S. financial markets in the week ahead. The December Non-Farm Payroll report dropped traders' jaws as if they
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Marc Faber, U.S. economy "bear" and author of the recently infamous "Gloom, Boom and Doom Report", speaks his mind about the prospects for growth, debt and war in the world over the next 10 years. In the interview he actually endorses stocks as a reasonable investment in the near term, due to obsessive spending by
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Thursday morning the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) announced a change to the mark to market accounting standard, technically known as FASB Recommendation 157. Under new accounting rules banks will be allowed to value the toxic paper tied to mortgages based on cash flow valuations rather than fair market prices. Many mortgage backed assets are
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U.S. equities closed substantially lower across the board on Monday as the overbought rally and fear leading into 2009 Q1 earnings data caused selling pressure among stocks. The Sunday announcement that General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner had submitted his resignation raised eyebrows among analysts and investors as they questioned the reasoning behind his departure. The
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Excluding the bottomless pit of Wall Street executives now tarred and feathered to satisfy the constituents of the "blameless" U.S. congress, the Big Three automaker CEOs rank second as they were publicly chastised for their own inadequacies. While much blame has been rightfully bestowed on Ford, GM and Chrysler for declining from market dominators to
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