Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Stock Market Trend and Geomagnetism / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: John_Hampson
A correlation between stock market performance and geomagnetism is captured in a paper here by Krivelyova and Robotti. That aside, it is a rarely used discipline in trading, and if you search Marketwatch, Bloomberg and CNBC for its reference, you will come away empty handed. My latest findings are about to demonstrate its importance.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Stocks Are Not Dead / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: Brady_Willett
Proclamations like The Death of Equities usually arrive near the point of maximum pessimism, and when everyone is most bearish it is usually time to take a contrarian stance and buy. However, today - less than 4-years into a historic deleveraging phase* - calls that equities are dead are likely to prove premature. Equities are not dead in the sense that they are poised to rally strongly from a contrarian perspective. Rather, equities are simply dying
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Stock Market Squeaks Into the Green / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: PhilStockWorld
Courtesy of Doug Short. The S&P 500 spent the day wallowing in shallow red ink, but a rally at the close nudged the index into the positive territory for a fractional gain of 0.07%. The week tells a better story, with a gain of 2.04%. Thus far, of the thirteen S&P 500 market days in 2012, eleven have been advances, athough three of them were in the 0.02% to 0.07% range. The index has a year-to-date gain of 4.59%. It is 3.54% below its interim high at the end of April 2011.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Stock Market Edging Higher...Resistance Right Here ...VIX Low / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: Jack_Steiman
The market is losing its volatility as the VIX drops, and that's not a bad thing. Nice and smooth is how the market is now trading. No major swings. No intense whipsaw. That's a welcome reality for all traders. The worst of times come when the market just flip flops all over the place, haphazardly, without much rhyme or reason. When the VIX starts soaring, it's lights out for this market in terms of performance. It becomes almost impossible to play. Many hundreds of points up and down in a single day on the Dow. With the VIX near 20, we don't have to fear the market. We know things will be tight, and thus, trading becomes more enjoyable. A strong market helps bring the VIX down, and that's why it's so low, although the market has not made the big breakout to this point. It has moved up decently, but yet to make the big one a reality. More on that later.
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Saturday, January 21, 2012
Stock Market Coming Off A High / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: Doug_Wakefield
“There were two conflicting cultures. One rewarded professionalism, honesty, and entrepreneurship. This culture recognized that without individual investors, the markets could not work. The other culture was driven by conflicts of interest, self-dealing, and hype. It put Wall Street’s short-term interest over investor interests. This culture, regrettably, often overshadowed the other.” Take on the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don’t Want You to Know (2002) Former Chairman of the SEC, Arthur Levitt, pg 7
Thursday, January 19, 2012
JP Morgan Chase Accused of 'Brazen Bankruptcy Fraud' / Stock-Markets / Scams
By: Jesse
Maybe this was their warm up for the shenanigans in the MF Global bankruptcy case. Or their long term manipulation of the silver market.
If these allegations are true, why doesn't the California Attorney General or the Justice Department investigate this criminal conspiracy to abuse the legal system? (rhetorical question).
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Why The Stock Market Hangs In There... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: Jack_Steiman
The stock market has fooled many non-believers over the past year or so. Not that the market has done so well, because it hasn't. Dead flat on the S&P 500 last year as it opened and closed at 1257. Given the circumstances that surrounded the global markets in 2011, it is nothing short of a miracle that we ended up 100% flat for the year. I called it the year of the bull for obvious reasons. Let's be honest, if the market had been down 15-20% last year, would you have been shocked by it all? I doubt it. You may have said something like, thankfully, it wasn't worse than that. Many bears, hard and steady bears at that, just couldn't understand what it was that kept this market together. When looking back, and looking at the moment, the reasons aren't that difficult to understand. Most people are not satisfied with not making money during the course of a calendar year. They want to be mostly fully invested. They have to think about retirement, so it's hard not be in the game. Understanding that helps you grasp things a bit better.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Will The U.S. Stock Market Decouple From Europe? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: Chris_Ciovacco
The term decouple is often used on Wall Street to explain something that is difficult to wrap your arms around. In late 2007/early 2008 we were told the emerging markets would decouple from the mortgage mess based in the United States. In the video below, we explore:
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
How To Buy Stocks After Today’s Advance / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: David_Grandey
Should we chase the markets here?
OR
Should we do what has delivered us a 79% return in 3 1/2 years which is ALLOW STOCKS TO COME TO US?
After all, we’ve all seen for the better part of 2011 that chasing buses has been hazardous to ones health now hasn’t it. This is especially true for those who are not in control of their emotions and are of an impulsive nature.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Now More Bearish on the Stock Market Than 2007 / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Paul_Lamont
While we were Hyper Bearish expecting an Asset Fire Sale in late 2007, we are more bearish now than at anytime in 2007 and 2008. Here is why...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Dow Stock Market Index History: Where Are We Now? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: PhilStockWorld
Courtesy of Doug Short. Advisor Perspectives welcomes guest contributions. The views presented here do not necessarily represent those of Advisor Perspectives.
Following on from my overall summary chart of 110 years of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) published here last week, further detailed analysis serves to demonstrate that volatility has been reliably consistent for the past 110 years, and now is no different.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
U.S. Dollar, Weak Corporate Earnings Indicate Stock Market Top is Near / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: J_W_Jones
Earnings season is now upon us and so far the only major earnings component that has been released is the J.P. Morgan earnings report that came in Friday before the market opened. After the report was digested by the marketplace, prices fell dramatically.
While the charlatans in Washington try to sell the American public into believing that the U.S economy is starting to firm up, the underlying truth is that the recovery has been relatively week. If it were not for the massive liquidity injections provided by the Federal Reserve through multiple quantitative easing adjustments, risk assets would likely be priced significantly lower.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Next Financial Crisis "Lehman Moment' Is Coming Fast / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2012
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes:
It seems that my Thursday edition of Wall Street Insights & Indictments was warmly received by the bullish crowd, many of whom reached out to me to thank me for my optimism.
I'm sorry to burst your bubbles, but I am not a raging bull (but thank you for asking).
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Morphic Fields and Stock Market Cycles / Stock-Markets / Cycles Analysis
By: David_Knox_Barker
Dan Brown popularized the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in the novel The Lost Symbol. IONS is in fact a real research organization. The mission of IONS includes the rather unique goal of supporting individual and collective transformation through consciousness research, with an end toward maximizing human potential. Granted, this is a rather lofty and somewhat subjective sounding agenda and you are likely skeptical of the application of research going on at IONS to the real world.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Stock Market Reversal is Due / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
SPX: Very Long-term trend - The very-long-term cycles are down and, if they make their lows when expected, there will be another steep and prolonged decline into 2014.
SPX: Intermediate trend - Intermediate uptrend still intact, but short-term top... or more, is now very close.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Stock, Commodity, Bond and Forex Markets Breakout or Breakaway? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2012
By: FNN24
We begin this week weekly analysis by looking back at the week COT data which show increasing spec shorts on key currencies.
In Treasury futures, speculative investors have been getting longer in FV, increasing their net long positions to 304K contracts from 252K from the last week. Net spec positions in the charts below show the difference between gross long and short positions in each contact held by speculative traders, or non-hedgers, as reported by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
Stocks Bear Market Focus Point: Complacency Still Rules and China Stalls / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Garry_Abeshouse
It’s my view that the reluctance to believe you are in a prolonged bear market slowly decreases over time until the final bottom is reached and closure is realised. The recent sharp 52%fall in the Baltic Dry Index, together with the low levels currently experienced by the $VIX and the ProShares Ultra Short S&P500 ETF (SDS) and the comparative high levels of the equity markets, clearly show that complacency is still well entrenched in the market place. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Stock Market Bull is Back / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: Tony_Caldaro
Another quiet and positive week, technically, in the US markets. For the third week in a row the market traded in a narrow range: 20 points, 20 points and 22 points this week. The last two weeks have been positive with new uptrends highs. For the week the SPX/DOW gained 0.70%, and the NDX/NAZ gained 1.05%. Foreign markets had a better week. Asian markets rose 2.4%, European markets rose 1.3% and the DJ World index rose 1.1%. Economic reports had a negative bias, with two down for every one up. On the uptick: consumer credit, import prices, consumer sentiment and the monetary base. On the downtick: wholesale/business inventories, retail sales, export prices, the WLEI, and both weekly jobless claims plus the twin deficits worsened. Overall, January has started off with a good positive bias. Next week, we’ll be watching the CPI/PPI, Industrial production and Building permits. Best to your week!
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Brazil Stock Market Looks Like A Buying Opportunity Again / Stock-Markets / Brazil
By: Sy_Harding
Brazil continues to impress as a country and economy, due in no small way to its government’s multi-year efforts and determination to make it an important global presence.
Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world by geographical area and population (190 million), and now has the sixth largest economy, having surpassed the United Kingdom last year.
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Friday The 13th Stock Market Scare / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
By: Jay_DeVincentis
As we approach a long weekend, I was leaning bullish for an extension of the rally into next week which is also options expiration. That changed this am as we had euro concerns causing a jump in the dollar and bonds and corresponding weakness in stocks and commodities. With the market near highs, profit taking is also a consideration.
The dollar moved first, bonds are catching up right now (in the short term).
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