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Trading Strategy in an Inflated Market

April 11, 2012 by healthytrader
Let’s admit it that the market has gone too far. Valuations (P) have outstripped earnings (E) far too quickly and for the market to move further ahead, it needs to seek a breather. Well, basically either the P decreases, or the E has to increase to match a ‘worthy’ evaluation. The first quarter of 2012 [...]

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The Tale of 2 Stocks

April 5, 2012 by healthytrader
Yoma has been on the horizon of many traders and investors since last December, tracking the rise of Myanmar in the international arena. Coupled with the market bull run, Yoma has been enjoying a tremendous surge in its stock prices since December. Is the bull run ending? It does not seem so. Technically, there is a [...]

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Surprising Correlation Between STI and Dow Jones Avg

March 31, 2012 by healthytrader
Today, I finally got time to sit down and have a good look at STI and Dow Jones data. As I was fiddling with the data, I decided to take a look at its correlation. After all, we often chat up with each other excitedly in the morning if Dow went crazily up or slid [...]

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The Little Known Chicago Fed National Activity Index

March 18, 2012 by healthytrader
Have been pretty busy lately but as I was listening to a podcast on Morningstar.com where a Chicago Bank economist was interviewed over his views on the current economic situation in the US, I got pretty interested in a particular piece of content. Yes, the topics discussed were employment, consumption and housing sales. Pretty much [...]

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Why Trendlines Make Healthy Trading

March 11, 2012 by healthytrader
Trendlines are the simplest of all technical analysis but yet the most often ignored by novice traders. Truth to be told, whenever I am analysing a stock, my attention is first fixated onto the MACD and the RSI. Probably these are in colour fills and they grad attention far easier than trendlines that require one [...]

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Why Did I Trade When I Said to Be Wary?

March 5, 2012 by healthytrader
I have been learning in the last 5 years of my trading journey and I have often made mistakes – plenty, in fact in the early stages. But having said that, though the frequencies of bad trades are less often now, they have not been completely eradicated. I am still not satisfied with myself. I [...]

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Midas and Tiger Exhibiting Strength with Major Supports

February 29, 2012 by healthytrader
The market has been taking some profit-taking/correction/consolidation/volatility whatever you would like to call it. A few stocks have been catching my eye in this period of change – a refreshing one after an unexpected bullish of 2 months. They are Midas and Tiger. I quite particularly like the way they have tested the supports in [...]

in Categories: Investing, Technical Analysis

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Forget March, Remember April?

February 28, 2012 by healthytrader
March has typically been a quiet month for equities trading as mentioned in the Straits Times on 27th Feb. We also know that the March we are heralding is a month of uncertainty after 2 months of strong uptrend. The market is struggling with an effort to make a decision and is swinging up and [...]

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Confidence or Over-Confidence

February 27, 2012 by healthytrader
Perhaps I had been a little too cautious to call on time to this rally last week when some technical indicators began showing some retreat being on the cards. Of course, I have always believed in trading with the trend and in an uptrend that hasn’t been broken, my view of this uptrend is still [...]

in Categories: Investing

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More Upside to STVOSV?

February 26, 2012 by healthytrader
STXOSV has risen an astonishing 110% since the bottom of the start of October. This is by far one of the best performing stock in the last 6 months. When I meant best, I meant returns with measured risk.  Let’s analyse this stock with the news in December that broke and suggested a willingness of [...]

in Categories: Investing, Technical Analysis

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Euro Zone Bank Stress Test

February 24, 2012 by healthytrader
Given the volatility of the market over the last 2-3 days, I am deciding to sit on the sidelines and watch what unfolds before deciding what to do with my money. Breaking away from technically analysing stocks/markets, I thought it will be a refreshing and useful addon to share a bank stress test calculator prepared [...]

in Categories: Market Review and Trends

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STI Mirroring Dow’s Suggestions Too?

February 23, 2012 by healthytrader
Yesterday, I was predicting a bearish reversal in the near term by looking at the negative divergence of the MACD histogram and the signal line of the Dow weekly chart. And today, STI did show some bearish strength that took over the market. Exactly what sort of bearish strength did the STI exhibit today? Should [...]

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Dow Jones is Suggesting Something?

February 23, 2012 by healthytrader
If you have been reading this blog for the last 2-3 weeks, you would notice that every piece of news that came out was mostly positive or bullish about the market and its items. But this week’s events thus far, especially Wednesday’s market activity have brought me thinking hard. Is this time to get out? [...]

in Categories: Technical Analysis

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Property Sector Play Hots Up!

February 23, 2012 by healthytrader
As it seems, property stocks are on the rise given the highly volatile market conditions that have ensued on Wednesday’s trading. They have been quite lagging in the blue chip rally last month given the impact of the stamp duties that really brought their prices way down in December. But things seem to be getting [...]

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NOL Has Successfully Passed Its Test

February 20, 2012 by healthytrader
NOL has been looking to break beyond $1.45 since last week only to meet strong resistance from the market at that levels. After all, it did seem a bit overbought and has encountered strong headwinds. However, today NOL looked to have staged a breakout this morning before retreating to test the support for the first [...]

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Euro’s Plunge is Recovering.

February 19, 2012 by healthytrader
So is the world and its economic sentiments. Chart obtained from Euro/SGD Rates on Yahoo Finance. First, the news of payroll, employment and other economic data coming out of US have been positive and suggesting recovery. It has been suggested that the US will grow slightly in this year and lead Europe out of its recession. [...]

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Weekly Market Review and Perspectives

February 19, 2012 by healthytrader
Week 7 of 2012. 1. STI Performance Review This week, the STI raced to recapture the 3000 mark. Convincing? Not quite yet. We only saw a short breakout on Wednesday before a fall back below 3000 levels occured with a pretty big dark candlestick. On Friday, STI had closed 3000.  From both TA and FA [...]

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Dow’s Rise is Healthy

February 17, 2012 by healthytrader
Last night, Dow posted a +123 points rise, outstripping the previous day’s horrific slaughter of the market. Horrific because it was the first time Dow lost more than 100 points in a day in this year. But it is back above those levels again. I decided to look at its weekly chart to have a better [...]

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