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Friday, February 17, 2012

Wall Street Pins Hopes on Fed’s Minutes and Prospect of More QE

Wall Street had initially opened, following Europe, but speculation about possible QE-leanings the Fed may have been discouraged in view of the improvement of data now points. Writing, it seems that Wall Street could use a bit of direction; the SPX500 is 4.17 points, the NASDAQ higher by 23 and the DJIA trading now more than 23 points lower. Such as indices, the collective sense merchants OpenBook is also mixed; distributed on the rise on the SPX500 and the DJIA and downward on the NASDAQ. A sense, however, could change the head at 14: 00 (EST) when the Fed releases the minutes of the latest meeting.OpenBook trader drangie has recently opened and covered in the SPX500 positions, but it closed to others during the day, which would allow small yields in each. This trader that spends 85% indices trading portfolio is to register a profit of 12% for the week.
The reason of sense of collective increase of markets will be clearer later when market movements focused on the release of the Federal Reserve FOMC minutes of its January meeting. Traders are anxious whether or not the Fed has the intention of embarking on a new round of quantitative easing in additional to their commitment to maintain the current low interest rates. Analysts point out that it is the hope that more relaxation will be upcoming supporting stock markets on Wall Street.
Given the new position of the Fed on open communication, the minutes will be revealed as not only including members of FOMC is more or less for relaxing, but how each arrived at the rate the EDF and fund their forecasts of the target. Recently, the President of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke stated that they Fed would closely monitor the activity and that he would not hesitate to respond to any signs that the recovery of the economy appears to be retired.
Data points out before minutes showed an unexpected improvement in the reading of the Empire State manufacturing survey, which was printed at 19.53 13.48 and a rising unexpectedly from the NAHB Housing Market Index of 29 of 25.
In view of the improvement in data points, it is not uncommon to find that a number of traders OpenBook, we recently mentioned is more doubtful of further Fed easing. Negotiating marcongzh, which has had some recent success in trade the SPX500, opened a sale is not so long the position which is already back more than 10%. Trader Canada spedini, which allocates the 13% of its portfolio of indices, scalped two short positions on the SPX500, with an average yield of 5.5%.
OpenBook trader ROLaterveer of the Netherlands has been scalping the SPX500 during the opening hours of Wall Street and closed of three short films with an average yield of more than 10%. This trader has also several positions of short to long term requiring a serious rout of the SPX500 make profitable. In view of the improvement of recent data, minutes may reveal QE another is in back-burnered, which may give to this merchant of the defeat he needs.
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