Instead of listing the pre-market events that can be found in most blogs and financial portals, from this week onwards, I will be value-adding by capturing if the economic data is significant enough to move the market. I will be using the Dow Jones to track the overall market and OIH to track the energy’s [...]

This week is heavy both on the economic and earnings calendar. Time to make some money friends!!!

Date
Day
Time (ET)
Release

Apr 16
Mon
0830
Retail Sales / Retail Sales ex-auto / NY Empire State Index

 
 
0900
Net Foreign Purchases

 
 
1000
Business Inventories

Apr 17
Tue
0830
CPI / Core CPI / Housing Starts / Building Permits

 
 
0915
Industrial Production / Capacity Utilization

 
 
AMC
YHOO (likely)

Apr 18
Wed
1030
Crude Inventories

 
 
AMC
EBAY (likely)

Apr 19
Thu
0830
Initial Claims

 
 
1000
Leading Indicators

 
 
1200
Philadelphia Fed

 
 
AMC
GOOG [...]

Trading can be the best job in the world. No bosses to suck up to, no subordinates to worry about, no suppliers to be weary about, no office politics, no meaningless appraisal documents to fill in every year, not standard 9-5 etc…Don’t get me wrong. I am not suggesting it is the easiest job either. [...]

Earnings Season begin with AA coming Tue AMC. The market has almost recovered from the meltdown. This is getting more and more exciting.

Date
Day
Time (ET)
Release

Apr 10
Tue
AMC
AA

Apr 11
Wed
1030
Crude Inventories

 
 
1400
FOMC Minutes / Treasury Budget

 
 
AMC
RIMM

Apr 12
Thu
0830
Export Prices ex-ag. / Import Prices ex-oil / Initial Claims

Apr 13
Fri
0830
Core PPI / PPI / Trade Balance

 
 
1000
Mich Sentiment-Prel.

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I was reading Dr Alexandra Elder’s book titled Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading. A must-read for all budding traders. He brought up this concept of an Investor vs a Trader. A concept that we must be clear of so that our learning strategy can be geared towards the right path. [...]