Sunday, July 31, 2016
Bank of Japan Disappointment Sets Stage For Further Yen Appreciation / Currencies / Japanese Yen
By: AnyOption
After the considerable fanfare that followed the Liberal Democrats sweeping victory in the upper house of Japanese Parliament, the monetary stimulus measures that have seen been unveiled have not been met with optimism as evidenced by the recent strengthening in the Yen. In a sign that confidence in the Bank of Japan continues to fall, and recently announcement of expanded JPY 6 trillion in ETF purchases failed to move the needle lower for the Yen. Anticipation of more aggressive stimulus measures including expanded easing and lower interest rates was not rewarded after the Central bank abstained from making serious adjustments to existing policy measures. Despite the pessimism that surrounded the decision, it may have been the best move considering the ongoing deflationary pressures that have not budged and weaker consumption metrics. However, with deteriorating economic fundamentals comes the added risk of another wave of Yen appreciation.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, July 31, 2016
Putin Hacking Hillary for Trump, Russia's Manchurian Candidate? / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Trump last week called on the Russian dictator to hack Hillary's emails “Russia, if you are listening, I hope that you are able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. I think that you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let’s see if that happens,” which apparently according to the FBI has already happened as part of the great game that Putin is playing to help Trump become the next President of the United States.
Sunday, July 31, 2016
US Dollar Set For Massive Smackdown / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Austin_Galt
The US Dollar Index price action has played out exactly as forecast in recent subscriber analysis. That analysis reduced the price expectation for the bear rally and the recent high of 97.62 was a bingo hit.Let’s review the technicals beginning with the daily chart.
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Saturday, July 30, 2016
Gold and Silver Bull Phase 1 : Final Impulse Dead Ahead / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Plunger
Everything is now aligned for the final upward impulse to complete Phase I of the great bull market in the PM stocks. All the technical work is now done. The backing and filling complete. The final fuel stop taken to fill up on short sellers who will provide the fuel for the final surge powered by short covering. The psychology is properly set with several prominent newsletter writers having kept there subscriber base out and on the sidelines of the market. So let’s take a look at the weekly and daily gold price and see how it has been methodically taking all the healthy steps required to set-up for this rally’s completion.
Saturday, July 30, 2016
SPX Stock Market Uptrend Resumes / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Tony_Caldaro
The week started off at SPX 2175, then spent the entire week trading within the two week, 20 point/1% trading range, until it nudged above it by one point on Friday. In the end the SPX made an all time high at 2177. For the week the SPX/DOW lost 0.45%, and the NDX/NAZ gained 1.30%. Economic reports for the week were negatively biased. On the downtick: Case-Shiller, consumer confidence/sentiment, durable goods, the Chicago PMI, plus weekly jobless claims rose. On the uptick: Q2 GDP, new/pending homes sales. Next week will be highlighted by monthly payrolls and ISM.
Saturday, July 30, 2016
Gold And Silver – Merkel: Example Of How Clinton Is A Globalist Puppet / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Michael_Noonan
Americans have faced mass murder tragedies over the last few decades, all home- grown killers: Columbine high school shootings, the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, [a false flag?], the recent Orlando shooting, to name a few amongst so many others. The taking of innocent lives in such a senseless manner is a heartfelt reaction experienced by the entire nation.
It is with empathy that we identify with the terrorist events that occurred in Germany, equally senseless but attributable to a common external trigger: Islamic terrorists. We use the term Islamic to describe the terrorists with no concern to be “politically correct.” The source of the murderers is beyond question. We also feel for the French and what that nation has been suffering as a consequence of allowing foreign Middle East immigrants to freely enter the country.
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Saturday, July 30, 2016
Durable Goods....GDP, Q2 And Q1 Disasters.... Stock Market Smiles... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Jack_Steiman
The only thing it seems that can hit this market hard to the down side in a sustainable fashion would be if the market smelled a rate-hike cycle about to begin. Bad news on its own doesn't have any effect on how the market trades. The uptrend remains in place. We know this by two report s that came out this week. The first was the Durable Goods Report, which showed a number well below expectations. Folks just aren't spending on those household goods. That bad news was follow-up by really bad news on the GDP on two fronts. The Q1 number was revised way down to 0.8% growth. To add insult to injury, the market had to deal with a 1.2% number this quarter, but the number was supposed to be all the way up at 2.6% growth. That's more than just your average miss. That's a disaster!
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Saturday, July 30, 2016
Some Thoughts at the Stock Market Mountain Top / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
There are several indicators Suggesting this is the terminal move and that it may, in fact, be complete. I thought I’d review those items and put in a few more. Of course, the Triangle is a dead giveaway, but how do we know the pattern is finished?
If we accept the concept that Wave (5) is an Ending Diagonal, we can see the a-b-c structures in the motive waves. I’ll point out that Wave 3, at 19.34 points, is smaller than Wave 1 at 22.38 points. One rule to remember is that Wave 3 can never be the smallest Wave. Wave 5 at 18.02 points, fills the prescription.
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Saturday, July 30, 2016
Gold and Gold Stocks Correction Over, Eyeing New Highs / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
In a bull market corrections can end quickly. One minute you are projecting another 5-10% downside and the next, the market has left lower prices in the dust. A negative reaction to the Federal Reserve statement could have caused lower prices but instead Gold and gold stocks are now primed for new highs. Fundamentally, we know the Fed will do nothing to prevent real rates from remaining negative. Since the trend has turned, Gold and gold stocks have mostly ignored the moronic, empty drivel emanating from these supposed geniuses. Moreover, despite reports of increased potential for a rate hike in September, weakness in precious metals abated and buyers returned.
Saturday, July 30, 2016
Gold Stocks Benchmark Battle / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016
By: Zeal_LLC
The gold-mining stocks have enjoyed enormous gains in their young bull market this year, trouncing all other sectors. Naturally this radical outperformance has led to surging popular interest in this usually-obscure contrarian sector. New investors are wondering how to best track its performance, about which gold-stock benchmark is the definitive one to use. Something of a battle is brewing over new versus old.
Benchmarks are very important for stock trading. Their performances over any given span really help investors and speculators quickly understand how a sector is faring relative to others. Just one easily-digestible number distills down the collective performances of many stocks. Benchmarks also provide standards by which the performances of both individual stocks and individual traders can be objectively judged.
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Saturday, July 30, 2016
Mainstream Media - The Blind Leading the Clueless / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Submissions
Jeff Thomas writes: Most of us watch television. In part, we seek to be entertained, but, additionally, we often seek to be enlightened as to “what’s going on.” In a difficult era like the present one, in which some of the most prominent countries are experiencing the onset of an economic crisis, virtual cartoon characters are competing as choices in political contests, governments are becoming increasingly rapacious and a police state is developing rapidly, it’s not surprising if the average person questions, “What on earth are they thinking?”Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, July 30, 2016
Facebook Trade Set-Up / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Joseph_VanDerveer
Facebook Crushed Earnings
Overall Facebook is a strong company with great numbers. Including 59% YoY revenue growth, 16 quarters beating earnings estimates, and 2 billion searches per day.
Below is a simple chart of Facebook, 2 days after they crushed earnings. Shown is a 6 month, daily chart using Japanese candlesticks, one of my favorite. Japanese candlesticks can tell a lot when used with other indicators.
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Saturday, July 30, 2016
Top 10 Pokemon GO Playing Tips, Tricks and Secrets! / Personal_Finance / Mobile Technology
By: Sami_Walayat
Here are my TOP 10 Tips and tricks for playing Pokemon GO, for both beginners and experienced players to get you on the fast track to level up to evolve higher CP Pokemon's
- Use curve balls for more experience.
- Busy locations for lots of stops and pokemon's
- Don't power up your Pokemon's until you reach level 13.
- Watch out for Rustling grass for nearby Pokemon's....
Saturday, July 30, 2016
SPX Makes a Final Thrust / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
It appears that SPX was in need of a final thrust higher to complete Wave [c] of 2. It appears that the final thrust may terminate at or near the trendline.
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Friday, July 29, 2016
How to Profit From These Massive, Brexit-Induced Trends / Politics / BrExit
By: Casey_Research
By Justin Spittler
Editor's note: Yesterday, Casey Research founder Doug Casey shared his thoughts on the Brexit.
Today, in part two, he lays out the major trends the Brexit will accelerate…and explains how you can set yourself up to profit from them…
This has the makings of a classic speculative opportunity—one where politically caused distortions are liquidated and prices readjust. But a word of caution. It’s going to take place within the context of the Greater Depression. And, as Richard Russell, who lived through the last depression, observed: In a depression, nobody wins. The winner is just the person who loses the least.
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Friday, July 29, 2016
Doug Casey on “Brexit” / Politics / BrExit
By: Casey_Research
By Justin Spittler:
Editor's note: It's been a month since "Brexit"…the historic event that wiped out more than $3 trillion from the global stock market in two days.<
But what happens now?
Today, Casey Research founder Doug Casey breaks down what the decision means for Britain…and how it foreshadows some big changes in the world at large.
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Friday, July 29, 2016
Asset Bubbles Tend to Crash with a Vengeance / Stock-Markets / Liquidity Bubble
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
Despite short-term memory loss affecting most investors, asset bubbles tend to crash with a vengeance. From over-valuation, risk ignorance, and reactionary sentiment, the current bubble-trifecta shows signs of turning over.
The monetary powers that be have succeeded in creating serial asset bubbles. Each is extending from the great expansion of credit pivoting on the last official dollar default in 1971.
And yet once, again we are bombarded with the mantra: “This time it’s different”.
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Friday, July 29, 2016
False Information, Mass Psychology & this Hated Stocks Market Bull / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Sol_Palha
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. Marian Anderson
Regarding today’s news, the average person is inundated with unnecessary junk. On any given day you will find experts telling you why the markets are destined to soar and or crash. News outlets are desperate for eyeballs, so they are going out of their way to make titles bombastic, and or offering multiple scenarios so that when one of them comes to pass, they can proudly state we told you so.
Friday, July 29, 2016
How To Use the XAU-To-Gold and HUI-To-Gold Ratios / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
The gold miners-to-gold ratios are indicators that show how many gold ounces are required to purchase one share of an index. Technically, the numbers are the value of the index divided by the price of gold. They show a relative value of miners to the price of bullion, thus indicating whether gold stocks or gold are overvalued or undervalued relative to each other. When the ratios are low, miners are cheap compared to gold, and when the numbers are high, gold stocks look expensive relative to bullion.
Friday, July 29, 2016
2016: Current Gold and Commodity Market Themes / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Gary_Tanashian
A year ago almost to the day we began tracking a ‘Macrocosmic’ theme that would eventually see gold bottom and rise vs. stocks and bonds in 2016, joining its bullish status vs. commodities, which had been in place since 2014.