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.
Friday, July 29, 2016
Learn to Trade Against the Crowd / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: Gary_Savage
I’m going to show you how to trade against the crowd using the most recent 18 months of daily charts of $HUI (Gold Miners), $SPX (S&P 500), $WTIC (Crude Oil), XLE (Energy) and $USD (US Dollar).
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Friday, July 29, 2016
Crude Oil CFDs - What to Expect in the Coming Months / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Boris_Dzhingarov
The oil market is globalised, and it works for 24 hours a day. It is also very sensitive, so prices are constantly fluctuating. This is why day traders can benefit from this market, particularly if they trade on oil prices with the help of CFDs (contracts for difference).
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Friday, July 29, 2016
Retirees Are Risking Their Life Savings on Junk Bonds / Interest-Rates / Pensions & Retirement
By: John_Mauldin
Retirees and other investors are reaching farther and farther for yield. They’re piling into all sorts of increasingly risky investments. So, it should come as no surprise that credit spreads are shrinking between what in theory are risk-free investments and other investments.
My friend Danielle DiMartino Booth, formerly at the Dallas Fed, covers a range of topics affected by central-bank policies. I think she is going to be an increasingly visible force in the world of central bank critics.
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Friday, July 29, 2016
The Fed Is Preparing for Negative Rates—Here’s the Sign Everyone Missed / Interest-Rates / Negative Interest Rates
By: John_Mauldin
I think it’s possible that the Fed will push rates below zero when the next recession arrives. I explained why a few months ago in my free weekly column, Thoughts from the Frontline, at Mauldin Economics.
In that regard, something important happened recently. And not many people noticed. I’ll do a quick review to explain.
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Friday, July 29, 2016
The Next Recession is Coming - Expect Around 0% Returns for the Next 7 Years / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: John_Mauldin
The next recession is coming, and it will be severe.
My friend Ed Easterling of Crestmont Research just updated his Economic Cycle Dashboard and sent me a personal email with some of his thoughts.
Here is his chart (click on it to see a larger version).
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Friday, July 29, 2016
A Cornered Bank of Japan Shocks Markets. Risk Assets Now Under Threat - Video / Interest-Rates / Japanese Interest Rates
By: Mario_Innecco
I just like to talk about the bank of japan they had a policy meeting today
like the equivalent of the FOMC for the Fed the news came out at a quarter to
midnight sorry quarter to midnight yet new york time or quarter to five a.m. london time
so it actually came out yesterday New York and today in London but that's not
the point a lot of people i think the majority of economist in Japan were expecting a big
surprise by the bank of japan in terms of in terms of lowering even more their
negative interest rates and increasing the size of QE bottom as i read here
from news headlines zerohedge for example says bank of japan shocks market shuns government pressure
leaves q we r & rates unchanged questions policy effectiveness
there's more here from investing.com yen jumps after boj easing fall short of
expectation there is a new stimulus package though the government has
announced after the meeting we've seen new stimulus package by the bank of japan and it's includes a
hundred and thirty billion dollars in fiscal measures