[BRIEFING.COM] Equities started the day in the black following the release of November nonfarm payrolls, which revealed an addition of 146,000 jobs. However, the optimism was short-lived and stocks surrendered their early gains after the preliminary reading of the...
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Here's today's list of a few hand-picked short-term technical patterns that we are currently eyeing for potential swing opportunities over the coming sessions. These selections are designed to assist the active trader and teach the developing novice in identifying low...
ETF Daily Notes
BriefingTrader Column: We are well on our way at this point to the most typical outcome, from an historical, Stock Trader's Almanac standpoint, with everything risky moving higher into the half-day session following the Thanksgiving holiday. The leader on the upside...
Liquid Momentum
Liquid Momentum is Briefing.com's proprietary Focus List for the 50 most liquid, high Relative Strength stocks in the market that are ideal for Day and Swing trading candidates.
In this report, we highlight some charts that show some promising technical activity as of...
Swing Trader
Another aggressive day of selling in context of the current down-channel off the October highs, leaving the major indices all down more than -1% on Wednesday, ahead of Friday's expiration.
I've been monitoring that 1370/1380 zone as support based upon its 200-day...
The S&P 500 gained 0.3% yesterday to close at 1413.94. To be sure, there has been a whole lot of headline back and forth on the election, the eurozone, and the fiscal cliff. Things have looked worse at times and things have looked better. The striking fact of the...
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