Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Its Time To Roll Profits From AA, AL, BHP and Others Into Titanium Stocks

1) Titanium Metals - TIE
2) Allegheny Technologies - ATI
Earnings reports are due out soon and should beat the street with their explosive aerospace demand.
Click: Titanium News

TRIX Technical Indicator With Chart Examples

Indicators like TRIX and MACD are not perfect, but they do help in the timing of momentum moves in good stocks. TRIX oscillates around a zero (0.00) line. When it is used as an oscillator, a positive value indicates an overbought stock while a negative value below the 0.00 line indicates an oversold stock. TRIX is designed for trading trends. Trix uses a triple-smoothed moving average. This indicator will keep you in trends shorter or equal to the window period. Here are some examples. The Bullish signal is "best" indicated when the lines cross up and is below the 0.00 line. Please click on the picture for a better view:




Monday, July 16, 2007

Brent Crude Oil Rises Above $78 a Barrel; Reaches 11-Month High

July 16 (Bloomberg) -- Brent crude oil, the benchmark for two-thirds of global supplies, rose above $78 a barrel for the first time since Aug. 9.

Crude oil for August settlement rose as much as 45 cents, or 0.6 percent, to $78.02 a barrel in electronic trading on the London-based ICE Futures exchange. It traded at $78 at 3:38 p.m. Singapore time.

Carlos Slim's Mexican Stock AMX Continues To Shine


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Sunday, July 15, 2007

China's Titanium Plants

Since titanium's  initial  applications,  the number of end-use markets for
titanium has significantly expanded. Established industrial uses for titanium
include chemical plants, power plants, desalination plants and pollution control
equipment. Rapid growth of the Chinese and other Southeast Asian economies has
brought unprecedented demand for titanium-intensive industrial equipment.

In November 2005, Titanium Metals (TIE) entered into a joint venture with XI'AN BAOTIMET
VALINOX TUBES CO. LTD. ("BAOTIMET") to produce welded titanium tubing in the
Peoples Republic of China. BAOTIMET's production facilities will be located in
Xi'an, China, and production is expected to begin in early 2007.
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Valtimet's Plants (Valtimet SAS has been sold)

T Boone Pickens - A Large TIE Shareholder

TIE has been consolidating for months. Our guess is that there is a strategy developing to CRUSH the shorts on or before the release of the next earnings report due out in the next week or two.

T Boone owns 552,000 TIE Shares.


T Boone Pickens Interview On CNBC July 13th. - Calling For $80 Oil
If oil goes up so will the demand for Titanium (Ti) especially in aerospace!

July 14 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks climbed for a third straight week, sending the Standard & Poor's 500 Index and Dow Jones Industrial Average to records, after takeover speculation swept through the metals industry and companies announced $49 billion of share buybacks.

Companies have announced about $1.4 trillion of takeovers and $466 billion of stock buybacks this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg and Birinyi Associates Inc.

What Is TRIX?


TRIX is a momentum indicator that displays the percent rate-of-change of a triple exponentially smoothed moving average of a security's closing price. It was developed in the early 1980's by Jack Hutson, an editor for Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine. Oscillating around a 0.00 "zero" line, TRIX is designed to filter out stock movements that are insignificant to the larger trend of the stock. The user selects a number of periods (such as 15) with which to create the moving average, and those cycles that are shorter than that period are filtered out.

The TRIX is a leading indicator and can be used to anticipate turning points in a trend through its divergence with the security price. Likewise, it is common to plot a moving average with a smaller period (such as 9) and use it as a "signal line" to anticipate where the TRIX is heading. TRIX line crossovers with its "signal line" can be used as buy/sell signals as well.

Like many oscillators, TRIX oscillates around a zero line. When it is used as an oscillator, a positive value indicates an overbought market while a negative value indicates an oversold market. When TRIX is used as a momentum indicator, a positive value suggests momentum is increasing while a negative value suggests momentum is decreasing. Many analysts believe that when the TRIX crosses above the zero line it gives a buy signal, and when it closes below the zero line, it gives a sell signal. Also, divergences between price and TRIX can indicate significant turning points in the market.

TRIX calculates a triple exponential moving average of the log of the price input over the period of time specified by the length input for the current bar. The current bar's value is subtracted by the previous bar's value. This prevents cycles that are shorter than the period defined by length input from being considered by the indicator.

Advantages of TRIX
Two main advantages of TRIX over other trend-following indicators are its excellent filtration of market noise and its tendency to be a leading than lagging indicator. It filters out market noise using the triple exponential average calculation, thus eliminating minor short-term cycles that indicate a change in market direction. It has the ability to lead a market because it measures the difference between each bar's "smoothed" version of the price information. When interpreted as a leading indicator, TRIX is best used in conjunction with another market-timing indicator - this minimizes false indications.