Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Friday, June 05, 2009
Stock and Bond Market Update / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Seven_Days_Ahead
Last week we compared bonds and thought that T Notes were a good sell. They have fallen further - are they still a good sell? Some doubts have arisen…
Friday, June 05, 2009
Stocks Modest Boost Ahead of US Jobs Data / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
Stocks got a modest boost from a upward revision to Q1 US productivity data (which was corrected to double the initial estimate) and a stabilization in continuing jobless claims. The number of people who have been claiming social security for a number of weeks which fell for the first time since early January.
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Thursday Stock Market Snap Back Rally Session / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Harry_Boxer
The indices had a real good snapback session after yesterday's losses, moving higher from the get-go, consolidating all morning, and then moving higher mid-day. A subsequent mid-afternoon consolidation held support, and they came back up in the last hour to close near the session highs.
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Thursday, June 04, 2009
S&P 500 Stock Market Trend Analysis and Forecast for June 2009 / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Hans_Wagner
Analyzing monthly stock market trends uses the S&P 500 charts to indicate important trend lines. Trend following is a proven strategy to beat the market and grow your stock portfolio. Technical analysis provides the tools to analyze and identify trends in the stock market. Since the S&P 500 trend line chart is the one used by professional traders for their analysis, it is important to understand how it is performing.
Thursday, June 04, 2009
This Stock Market is a Fool’s Paradise / Stock-Markets / Trader Psychology
By: Q1_Publishing
Bernard Baruch, one of the world’s most legendary speculators, said, “The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.”
Right now, that’s exactly what’s going on. And I assure you, a lot of folks will be made into complete fools in the next year or so.
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Thursday, June 04, 2009
Bullish Formation for Financial Stocks XLF ETF / Stock-Markets / Banking Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The Financial Select Sector SPDR (AMEX: XLF) has spent the last 4 weeks carving out a coil formation atop its Mar-May upleg, which translates into a bullish continuation pattern, which when complete should trigger upside acceleration towards the next optimal target zone of 13.20/40. As long as the prior pivot low within the coil – at yesterday’s low of 11.88 – remains intact, I want to be long the XLF in anticipation of the upside breakout.
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Thursday, June 04, 2009
Stock and Commodity Trends Impact of a Weak U.S. Dollar / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Chris_Ciovacco
Comments as of Wednesday's close: Risk assets have been benefiting from a weakening U.S. dollar. On Wednesday, the dollar strengthened on concerns about the economy (acting as a safe haven). From a technical perspective the dollar index has some support near 79.05 and 78.98 (today’s low was 78.33 – we are at 79.53 now). Last time these areas came into play, a three week countertrend rally followed, which is one reason we have been taking relatively small positions in recent weeks. A multi-week dollar counter-trend move is a possibility - we just need to be aware of it.
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Taking Profits On The China Stock Market Growth Trade / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
Stocks pared losses as the Dow finishes down 64 points yesterday having dipped to minus 142 points earlier as investors and traders took profits on the “China growth play” i.e. there was notable selling of commodity, metals, oil, & mining shares.
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Stock Market Rally, Focusing on the Facts / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Brian_Bloom
There is no doubt that the equity markets have been rising in recent weeks. It would be foolish to argue with that fact. There is also no doubt that those who have “played” the rise will have made significant profits during the past few weeks. Indeed, according to the chart below – courtesy Bigcharts.com – the Dow Jones Industrials Index has risen by over 30%. To those who caught that particular wave: Well done!
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Stock Market June Gloom / Summer Rally / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Joseph_Russo
Two years ago, and some five months and 1000-pts away from the Dow's historic print high above 14K in October of 2007; we penned an article entitled June Swoon / Summer Rally.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
CNBC Jim Cramer Perpetuates Myths of Calling the Top, Bottom and just about Everything in between / Stock-Markets / Mainstream Media
By: Submissions
Don Harrold writes: This story took turn for the odd last night.First, I did a video last week called, "Jim Cramer: I Told You to Sell!" In that video I showed Jim Cramer claiming that he told his viewers to get out of the market at "Dow 11,000." Then, I showed Jim calling "the bottom" and being insanely bullish at "Dow 11,000". I challenged people to show me Jim on Mad Money telling folks to get out, short the market, it was "too dangerous," and, with equal bearishness and no caveats (the last point is the most important). I offered $1100 to the first person to provide the video. (see original email and video for details).
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009
What’s the Market Trend? Where’s the Price? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
It is important to have situational awareness in battle; and investing is certainly a battle these days. From situational awareness, you can attempt adaptive response, which in battle and in this market may be a key to survival.
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Four Stock Market Warnings to Watch / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Uncommon_Wisdom
Tony Sagami writes: The TV experts are breathless again thanks to some triple-digit Dow Jones moves. Like a bunch of thirsty frat boys on a Friday night, the Wall Street crowd is so eager to throw a party that they’ll latch on to any good news as the start of a new bull market.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Stocks Stealth Bull Market Quick Update / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market
By: Nadeem_Walayat
In response to a dozen email requests, this is a quick update to the ongoing Stocks Stealth Bull Market that began in early March 2009.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Stocks Consolidate But Watch Finanicals / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
A day of consolidation for stocks, while pending homes sales data, was a shade better than the lowly expectations (as record highs in affordability lured buyers) and the autos sales numbers were tad less awful than the markets were bracing for. The disappointment was again from the unwillingness of financials to partake in the up move after stock offerings to repay the TARP.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
How Stock and Currency Markets Behave After a Financial Crisis / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: John_Lee
Debt-based monetary systems are inherently unstable. Money is created out of thin air by the banks and lent to government, consumers and businesses. In order to service and replay those debts, the borrowers take on more debts. Asset prices are inflated, and the vicious cycle continues until the debtors are unable to borrow or the banks are unwilling to lend. At that point the system snaps, everything is sold off, and we have a financial crisis at hand. In this paper we examine what happens to equity and currency markets in the aftermath of financial crisis.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
CNBC Jim Cramer Calls Stocks Bear Market Bottom in Hindsight / Stock-Markets / Mainstream Media
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Jim Cramer of CNBC's "Mad Money" is apparently at it again, rewriting history as the video prepared by Don Harrold illustrates that Jim Cramer is now starting to perpetuate a myth that he called the Stock Market bottom at Dow 6,500 after the earlier myth of telling investors to sell at Dow 11,000.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
An Avalanche Of Cash Is Set To Slide Triggering a Flood of Liquidity / Stock-Markets / Liquidity Bubble
By: Joseph_Dancy
Last month we read a book by Mark Buchanan entitled “Ubiquity—Why Catastrophes Happen.” It was mentioned by financial commentator James Grant in one of his investment reports. The book does not deal directly with financial markets—just physical systems—and attempts to identify the similarities present when unexpected events surprised observers, whether they were earthquakes, landslides, forest fires, tidal waves, political events, or financial events. In each case a small shock triggered an unexpectedly large response out of all proportion to what was expected.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Quarterly Stock Market Market Brief & Stock Pick / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Christopher_Quigley
While from a classic Dow Theory position the markets are in a bear market rally, from a technical position the momentum indicators are very strong. Both the Dow Transports and the Dow Industrials, on a three day chart, have both indicated phased supportive movement with higher highs and higher lows. More significantly the increases are advancing from solid base positions which is granting the market solid technical structure, something it did not possess since the third quarter of 2008.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
False New Stocks Bull Market Signal From Coppock Curve Indicator? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Guy_Lerner
I am seeing several articles in the main stream press and blogosphere regarding the "bullish signal" given by a technical indicator known as the Coppock Guide or Coppock Curve. As we can see in figure 1, a monthly chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (symbol: $DJIA), the Coppock Guide has turned up from a very low level. Thus according to the above referenced sources, this indicates a new bull market.