{"id":8031,"date":"2010-02-18T14:05:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T19:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=8031"},"modified":"2016-09-20T06:18:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T10:18:15","slug":"initial-claims-disappointing-means-green-light-to-short-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/18\/initial-claims-disappointing-means-green-light-to-short-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial Claims &#8211; Disappointing Means Green Light To Short Dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, once again we are disappointed with the Thursday morning \u00a0 initial claims report. Is it a surprise anymore that each time the number is released there is a sharp move lower for the futures that quickly rebounds by the time the 9:30 bell rings?<\/p>\n<p>The probability is high that traders will view the weaker than expected <!--more-->numbers as a good sign that a ridiculously easy monetary policy will continue to fund the risk trade. Once we see a weak number, the dollar sells of (green light to short) and the money starts to bid up equities.<\/p>\n<p>Or at least that is how it looks&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Claims-20100218.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8034 aligncenter\" title=\"Claims 20100218\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Claims-20100218-610x377-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ContClaims-20100218.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8032\" title=\"ContClaims 20100218\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ContClaims-20100218-610x365-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Jolts-20100218.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8033\" title=\"Jolts 20100218\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Jolts-20100218-610x371-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">___<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Disclosure: <a title=\"Horowitz &amp; Company\" href=\"http:\/\/www.horowitzandcompany.com\">Horowitz &amp; Company<\/a> clients may hold positions of securities mentioned as of the date published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, once again we are disappointed with the Thursday morning \u00a0 initial claims report. Is it a surprise anymore that each time the number is released there is a sharp move lower for the futures that quickly rebounds by the time the 9:30 bell rings? The probability is high that traders will view the weaker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,42],"tags":[284,481,483],"class_list":["post-8031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","category-stocks","tag-currency","tag-economy","tag-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}