Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Stock Market Indices Edge Higher in Afternoon Snapback After Steep Losses / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Harry_Boxer

The stock market indices started the day to the plus side but failed at resistance and rolled over hard in the morning. They reached the session lows on a spike down just before noon at about the 1873 area on the Nasdaq 100 and the 1195 area on the S&P 500. At that point they began a stair-step move back up, which accelerated over the course of the afternoon and closed with the indices back into the plus column, but just barely.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Gold Bull Market and the SP 500 Index Forecast Update / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: David_Banister

Back in the third week of April I predicted here on Kitco.com a topping in the broader market indices.    The theory was the VIX levels were extremely and historically too low concomitant with extremely high historical readings in investor bullish sentiment gauges.  After thirteen Fibonacci months of a bull cycle rally, it was likely an A B C correction to the downside would begin. In further follows ups on TheMarketTrendForecast.com service I run on April 20th, I again outlined concerns with falling volumes on small cap stocks and too many “stories” being run up too far ahead of the economics.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Stock Market Doji late... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Jack_Steiman

Which simply means that there should be some relief short-term for the market but expecting too much is probably not a good idea since we have some very strong resistance a little more than 1% above closing prices. 1155 is the gap down on the The Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts (SPY) from a few days back and then there's also the trailing lower 20- and 50-day exponential moving averages at 1164/1165 respectively. 1155/1165 will be very tough in the short-term for the bulls as we whipsaw all over the place on what is seemingly a daily basis. The charts tonight show clearly these ranges we are stuck in.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Has the Stock Market S&P 500 Index Topped Out? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: INO

This past weekend I visited some friends in Texas. The reason I bring this up, is that these folks are very worldly and very smart. During my visit, the conversation naturally turned to the market and what is going on.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Financial Markets Euro Sovereign Debt Fears Linger / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: PaddyPowerTrader

Nasty end to a rollercoaster week as sovereign debt worries continued to trump some decent US economic data Friday. Crude oil slipped below $70bn and the Euro slumps sub 1.23 versus the USD as investors realize the solutions to the current fiscal crisis are all growth negative. I’d thought Friday would be a relatively quiet holiday thinned session but it pretty much all ended in tears. To kick off we’d some ill timed & ill judged comments from Deutsche Bank’s top man Ackerman that Greek debt RESTRUCTURING is still a possibility (there are things you think but don’t say in a position such as his).

Monday, May 17, 2010

Commodity Charts Point to Stock Market and Economic Vulnerability / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Mike_Paulenoff

This week we look at commodities charts, which indicate there may be some concerns regarding future global economic growth. Precious metals gold and silver, as safe havens in uncertain market environments, have constructive-looking charts, while industrial metals such as copper, steel, and aluminum, as well as oil and the materials sector, look vulnerable, suggesting a problem in terms of buyers and demand.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Stock Market Historic Crash, A Warning Shot Across Our Collective Bow / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Captain_Hook

That’s the way you should view yesterday’s historic crash, witnessing the largest single day point swings in history. You should view it as a warning shot across your bow, because most market participants will stay in the stock market until it’s too late. Then, when the real panic starts, a lasting panic with no recovery like yesterday, they will freeze like deer in the headlights, and it will be all over but the crying as stocks crash like never before in a Grand Super-Cycle event.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Robert Prechter Stock Market Forecast For 2010 and Beyond / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: EWI

The following article is excerpted from Robert Prechter's current issue of the Elliott Wave Theorist. For a limited time, you can Download the full 10-page issue, FREE.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Monday Monetary Madness - Financial Markets Ewwwwro! / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: PhilStockWorld

Wow, nobody wants those Euros!
Of course, that kind of makes me want them as the Euro collapsed to $1.223 last night and we moved into "crazy oversold" territory.  Just 3 years ago supermodel Gisele Bundchen (left) INSISTED on being paid only in Euros (classic sign of a top!).  It’s not like we’re going to run in and buy Euros but I think $25 is plenty on EUO so we’re done with those for now and they are up another $2 from when we were already thrilled with them on May 5th.  That was the same post in which I said about oil "that bubble may be popping too" and we’re down from $85 then to $72 this morning and we touched $70 this morning which is our 20% retrace from our April $87 highs.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Sovereign Debt Crisis: Investor Emergency Strategy Update / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Martin_D_Weiss

Martin Weiss: Just days ago, the cradle of Western democracy — Greece — was in flames! Rioters attacked banks, businesses and government buildings. The entire country plunged into chaos. Spain, Portugal, Italy and even the United Kingdom were reeling. The euro was crushed.

Then, as we have warned you consistently and persistently, the raging storm in Europe struck our shores … ripped through our corporate bond market … created chaos in our stock market … and threatened to derail our already-fragile economic recovery.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Stocks Bull Market Hits Eurozone Debt Crisis Brick Wall, Forecast Into July 2010 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Nadeem_Walayat

Are the markets manipulated ? Are they ?

You have been repeatedly told by those that clearly don't immerse themselves in trading on a regular basis that they are not manipulated instead the movements are a function of some ordered theory that implies certainty of outcome when all one can do in reality is to conclude towards a probability of outcome that are usually little better than 60/40, well on the 6th everyone got the answer that they should imprint into their memories that the markets REALLY ARE manipulated. If your going to learn one lesson from 2010 then let that be the lesson learned. Contemplate on it, let it sink in, let it skew how you interpret price action and maybe you too can join in on future market manipulations!

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Gold, Silver and SP500 Stock Index Trading Charts / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Chris_Vermeulen

Last week was amazing for both gold and index traders as gold surged higher and the SP500 tested a key resistance then fell 4% in our favor. The past couple weeks with the mini market crash and Euro issues making the market extra volatile both gold and the broad market (SP500) index has been wild.

The added volatility makes trading more difficult because price patterns become less predictable and price movements are much larger increasing risk for traders.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Flash Stock Market Crash, Biggest Heist in U.S. History / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation

By: Submissions

VernontheGerman writes: I wanted to bring to your attention the events that transpired Thursday 6th May between 2:41pm and 2:57pm.

In those 16 min one of the largest heists in American history occurred. It was said that up to one trillion dollars was lost and regained in that time.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Stock Market Rally Failure Whilst Gold Rally Continues / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Steve_Betts

“I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either.” --- Edward Zehr

This may come as a shock to you but we are now living in interesting times. These interesting times are being brought to you by the folks around the world who created massive debts that can never be paid. At first it was difficult to catch on because they disguised the debt in the dual forms of derivatives and fiat currencies.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Currency Markets Pointing to Another System Crash Including Gold / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Shaily

While none of us predicted the massive crash of May 6 2010, premium readers at Investing Contrarian were fully aware of a S&P fall to 1120 from 1190 which was the day when we initiated short position.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

China Stock Market Crash In Progress / Stock-Markets / Chinese Stock Market

By: Robert_McHugh_PhD

Financial pundits everywhere are saying China is the future, China is where the action is, China will be the world's economic leader.

Well, hate to spoil the party, but China's stock market is crashing. If its stock market is crashing, and stock markets are leading indicators for economies, it means China is about to fall into a deep recession. Further, a huge Head & Shoulders top pattern we show below warns that if the SSEC drops below 1,750ish, China's SSEC could drop to zero, that an economic depression, economic calamity, is coming to China.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Stock Market Data Too Important to be Without? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Marty_Chenard

There are probably hundreds of different indicators, timing tools, models, and market data charts.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

End of the Stocks Bear Market Rally? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Tim_Wood

The price action earlier this month was no doubt an extreme and I’m still seeing and hearing discussion about whether or not it was “real.” Personally, I think it was and as a technician I take the price action at face value.   Ultimately, this could prove to be the beginning of the end of the bear market rally that began at the March 2009 low.   From a Dow theory perspective, the bullish trend change that occurred in association with the counter-trend move out of the March 2009 low still remains intact. 

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Stock Market Beyond Help / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Adam_Brochert

You know you're beyond help when a big, scary down trading day in the stock market gets the government to investigate. If the stock market goes down, there has to be an investigation. For everyone deserves prosperity. Be honest for just a minute and answer this question: would governments investigate the market if it suddenly went 2,000 points higher (whether by accident or due to intentional manipulation) in the course of an hour? Are there circuit breakers for overly fast bull moves in the stock market?

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Stock Market Trend Decisively Broken, Trading on Emotion – Eurozone Blues / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Peter_Navarro

Last week, I indicated that the market trend was broken and that the best strategy for a risk-averse retail investor in the absence of a clear upward trend was a move to cash. So emotionally, just how did you handle that observation when the stock market soared on the following Monday?