Rajandran R Telecom Engineer turned Full-time Derivative Trader. Mostly Trading Nifty, Banknifty, USDINR and High Liquid Stock Derivatives. Trading the Markets Since 2006 onwards. Using Market Profile and Orderflow for more than a decade. Designed and published 100+ open source trading systems on various trading tools. Strongly believe that market understanding and robust trading frameworks are the key to the trading success. Writing about Markets, Trading System Design, Market Sentiment, Trading Softwares & Trading Nuances since 2007 onwards. Author of Marketcalls.in)

Should Nifty Traders take cues from Baltic Dry Index?

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Baltic Dry Index is often referred as the leading indicator of th economy. The index measures the demand for shipping capacity versus the supply of dry bulk carriers. The demand for shipping varies with the amount of cargo that is being traded or moved in various markets
 
The BDI is termed a leading economic indicator because it predicts future economic activity. Because it provides "an assessment of the price of moving the major raw materials by sea," according to The Baltic, "… it provides both a rare window into the highly opaque and diffuse shipping market and an accurate barometer of the volume of global trade — devoid of political and other agenda concerns
 
Does the Stock Market(Say Nifty) follows the Leading Indicator of Economy?
 
Charts presented shows the past 1 year price performance  comparision of both BDI and Nifty Index. For the Past one year
BDI and Nifty remains totally uncorrelated most of the time especially during Dec 2008-APR2009 and from July 2009-OCT 2009 . If a trader or an Investor looking for global cues from Baltic Dry Index . Probably he would missed the huge trend and most probably he would be in loss if he looks for cues from the economy

We cant directly compare leading indicators with the index of the same period..
cos leading indicators might be ahead of time But look out the scenario. If an investor started looking for cues from BDI during July – Aug 2009 then probably he could stay away from commodity stocks say for example tata steel, sesagoa as it is constantly cracking right from july 2009 and expecting a decline in commodity prices which could directly impact those commodity stock prices

May be it would create fears among investors because during July-Aug market looks overbought and the PE ratio is above 20. Also Baltic dry index had crashed more than 50% from its high just leave the impression that market would crack any point of the time…..

But what happened is exactly the opposite… Commodity Stocks
rallied,,,,, Gold rallied…. Commodities rallied…. and more
over index rallied…..

Utter confusion remains in relating these term with Index or Stocks

 
If you are a Nifty trader or an Investor then stop looking cues from BDI.
 
Stop Reading External Factors and Start Reading Nifty!

Let External Factors be External Factors!
 
Rajandran R Telecom Engineer turned Full-time Derivative Trader. Mostly Trading Nifty, Banknifty, USDINR and High Liquid Stock Derivatives. Trading the Markets Since 2006 onwards. Using Market Profile and Orderflow for more than a decade. Designed and published 100+ open source trading systems on various trading tools. Strongly believe that market understanding and robust trading frameworks are the key to the trading success. Writing about Markets, Trading System Design, Market Sentiment, Trading Softwares & Trading Nuances since 2007 onwards. Author of Marketcalls.in)

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5 Replies to “Should Nifty Traders take cues from Baltic Dry Index?”

  1. hi rajandran, do you know any site from where one can get eod values for batic dry index??thanks.

  2. thanks rajandran, thats very helpful. one more request…any idea on historical data for bdi?thanks a ton.regards,ankit

  3. “If you are a Nifty trader or an Investor then stop looking cues from BDI.

    Stop Reading External Factors and Start Reading Nifty!
    Let External Factors be External Factors!”

    Well Said Rajandran Sir,….

    Krunal.

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