Wednesday, April 04, 2018

Crude Oil Price Bears - Stay the Course / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: Nadia_Simmons

What a day! The beginning of the new quarter, the new month and the new week was undoubtedly the triumph of oil bears. Thanks to their attack crude oil lost almost 3% in one day, which was the biggest decline since weeks. What impact did this drop have on the short-term outlook? Where are the nearest supports? For these and other questions you will find answers in today's alert.

Wednesday, April 04, 2018

Gold Outperforms Stocks In Q1, 2018 / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2018

By: GoldCore

– Gold signs off Q1 2018 with best run since 2011
– Gold price supported by safe haven demand, interest-rate concerns and inflation
– Trade wars and concerns over equity market have sent investors towards gold
– ETF holdings highest in nearly a decade
– Goldman Sachs: ‘The dislocation between the gold prices and U.S. rates is here to stay’

Wednesday, April 04, 2018

Gold: Patiently Waiting for… Nothing / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018

By: P_Radomski_CFA

Gold started the month with an upswing, silver soared and… Silver stocks declined. Yes, you read that right. Big upswings can be bullish developments, but it’s definitely not true in all cases. For instance, in this case, one could say that while it’s true that gold moved higher, it failed to move to the late-March high, let alone break above it. Why is gold not moving decisively in any direction? What’s it waiting for? Was gold’s early-April rally just a late April fool’s joke?

Let’s start with the shocker – silver stocks (charts courtesy of http://stockcharts.com).

Wednesday, April 04, 2018

Is Investing in Cryptocurrency a Good Idea for Your Business? / Currencies / BlockChain

By: Boris_Dzhingarov

Wednesday, April 04, 2018

Improving Moving Average Systems with Andrews Pitchfork / Stock-Markets / Technical Analysis

By: Submissions

By Ron Jaenisch: In Traders world publication last year, “A Winning System” was included, by this author. The system was a 50/100 week moving average crossover system. A track record was shown that documented the systems 100% record of winning trades for the last eighty years.

Since I learned Andrews and Babson techniques, from Dr. Alan Hall Andrews at his kitchen table and use them in my own trading, I decided to experiment with the idea of combining the Pitchfork with the crossover moving average system. This article will show some of the results of this experiment.

Wednesday, April 04, 2018

Doritos Promotion PR Disaster as Super Markets (Tesco) Say NO to Voucher Winners / ConsumerWatch / Freebies and Comps

By: N_Walayat

The Doritos instant win promotion that began Mid February and due to end Mid April has proven to have a high probability for a win estimated at 40%, i.e. 4 out of every 10 packet codes entered on their website will be an instant win, with prizes ranging from Cash of £5 to £500 to a print at home voucher for free packet of Doritos which is what one is most likely to win.

Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Crude Oil Price Rally Is Likely / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: OilPrice_Com

Oil prices seesawed at the start of the week before jumping close to multi-year highs on geopolitical concerns, with Brent hitting $70 and WTI at $65. However, geopolitical pressure is only able to influence oil prices to such a degree because the market is fundamentally getting tighter.

Ongoing declines in Venezuela and concerns about heightened tension between the U.S. and Iran have significantly raised the risk premium for oil, even as some short-term factors recently pushed up prices.

Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Orange Juice Commodity Price Analysis / Commodities / Commodities Trading

By: Austin_Galt

Latest Price – $139.20

Patterm – price looks to be generally in an uptrend with a secondary low in place with a recent test of that higher low turning price back up.

Fibonacci – the higher low was just above the 88.6% retracement level which is normal for the first correction in a new bull market as first corrections often make deep retracements while the most recent low looks to have found support at the 76.4% level. The higher low was at support from the 88.6% angle and price looks to have once again found support at that angle.

Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Urgent Market Forecast: FAANG Stocks' Next Move / Companies / Tech Stocks

By: EWI

Dear Reader,

The new wave of volatility is wreaking havoc on tech stocks.

The tech fear gauge, NYSE's Fang+ (comprising of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) just hit a 13-year high!

Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Gold Sector is on a Long-term Buy Signal / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018

By: The_Gold_Report

Technical analyst Jack Chan updates the gold and silver charts.

Our proprietary cycle indicator is up.

Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Land Rover Discovery Sport, The Good Bad and Ugly 3 Month Owners Review / ConsumerWatch / Motoring

By: N_Walayat

This is my comprehensive review of what's the good, bad and ugly of a Land Rover Discover Sport after owning and driving HSE Black trim for over 3 months, of what to expect if you are considering buying one as it does take a few months of real world driving before one is fully aware of the cars good, bad and ugly points, such as the pretty feeble plastic trim that tends to surround Discovery Sports, the rattling sound that many owners tend to experience again apparently from poor quality trim.

Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Review of Gold, Silver and Copper Charts and Implications of the Latest COTs / Commodities / Commodities Trading

By: Clive_Maund

We've certainly got plenty to look at in coming days, but perhaps a good place to start is with a review of some of the latest COTs, because of their implications for the immediate future. The following charts make very clear why those in control of publishing COT data hold up its release for three days (the data is always for Tuesday's close) so that those at the top of the food chain can position themselves comfortably to benefit from early knowledge of what's going on before the ordinary shmuck does—observe how the uptrends in both copper and the broad market S&P 500 index presaged by the COTs have already started by the end of the week. In looking at the charts, keep in mind that markets were closed on Friday.

Tuesday, April 03, 2018

China Moves to Neuter King Dollar in International Trade / Currencies / US Dollar

By: MoneyMetals

Last Monday, the Shanghai International Energy Exchange launched the first futures contract for crude oil priced in Chinese yuan. It’s a major step forward in the process of international de-dollarization. Now Chinese and other international traders can buy and sell the world’s most important commodity in a liquid market without using U.S. dollars.

The “petro dollar” now faces the prospect of being rendered unnecessary as China – the world’s biggest oil importer – attempts to establish a “petro yuan.”

Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Markets Could Rise on Commodity Prices in April / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018

By: Builderadv

Despite all the volatility during the first quarter, the first three months of 2018 stock markets correcting but recovering towards the fag-end. The Dow Industrials were the biggest losers with a quarterly drop of -2.5%. The broader S&P 500 Index lost only -1.2%. While the tech dominated Nasdaq Composite gained 2.3%. Small caps saw only a marginal loss (-.40%). The Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) captures the entire stock market by size (large, small, and midsize) and by style (growth and value). And it lost only -.71% from the end of December to the end of March.

Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Revealing Stock Market Session / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: Andre_Gratian

Current Position of the Market

SPX: Long-term trend – The bull market is continuing with a top expected in the low 3000s.
 
Intermediate trend – The intermediate correction from 2873 should now continue until May.

Analysis of the short-term trend is done on a daily basis with the help of hourly charts.  It is an important adjunct to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which discusses the course of longer market trends. 

Monday, April 02, 2018

This Will Be The Hottest Commodity of 2018 / Commodities / Lithium

By: OilPrice_Com

Monday, April 02, 2018

Sheffield Tree Fellings Protest - Amey and Acorn Vehicles Slow Marched VR 360 / Local / Sheffield

By: N_Walayat

Here's what tends to happen at the end of Sheffield's Street Tree fellings, as Amey and Acorn vehicles are are slow marched out of the felling site at Thornsett Road so that they have less chance of resuming fellings elsewhere on that day, with protestors themselves surrounded by Police, encouraged fasten their pace under threat of a Section 303 obstructing the highways charge.

Monday, April 02, 2018

A Sudden Decline in Market Sentiment is Bullish for Stocks / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: Troy_Bombardia

The stock market soared from 2017 to January 2018. The rally’s acceleration in January resulted in extremely optimistic sentiment from consumers.

1. 30% of consumers polled in January by the Conference Board expected stocks to rise in the next few months.
2. Today, only 6% of consumers polled by the Conference Board expect stocks to rise in the next few months.

Sunday, April 01, 2018

Best Cash ISA April 2018 - Last Chance Before for End of Tax Year! / Personal_Finance / ISA's

By: Nadeem_Walayat

This is your last chance to capitalise on your 20k annual tax free Cash ISA savings allowance, and I am sure many savers are buoyed by mainstream financial press coverage of warnings of rising UK interest rates as the Bank of England is expected to continue hiking UK base rates as it plays the game of follow the US Federal Reserve Bank leader by withdrawing some of its support for its banking sector brethren such as the funding for lending scheme that resulted in a catastrophic collapse in UK savings interest since its start in mid 2012. Which has resulted in UK savers being literally ripped off by the tax payer bailed out banking sector, the duration for which the banks that have continued to bank bonuses on the basis of artificial profits engineered by the Bank of England in an attempt at recapitalisng the bankrupt banks all whilst savers continue to suffer and pay the price in terms of loss of real terms purchasing power of savings as inflation continues to erode the hard earned wealth of Britain's savers.

Sunday, April 01, 2018

AUDUSD Currency Trend Analysis / Currencies / Austrailia

By: Austin_Galt

Latest Price – 76.82c

Pattern - recent high made a double top which rarely end trends. So, expect a move above that level.

Fibonacci – price down to 76.4% retracement level and the 88.6% angle, a very nice setup for a corrective low if that is to be the case.

RSI – triple bullish divergence in place at recent low. Nice.