Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Are Gold and the Stock Market Behaving Logically or Irrationally / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: J_W_Jones
Back on August 7th the S&P 500 was in the midst of a panic induced selloff and the bulls were running scared. Prices were collapsing and the bulls were racing to the exits. In the following weeks, piles of money flew out of equity mutual funds as the retail investors rang the register and pulled their money out near the lows which seems to be a regularly recurring event.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Stock Market Crash 2011 Critical Juncture Report / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: EWI
Dear Investor,
The Dow plummeted some 1800 points in the past weeks.
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
How to Save Your Wealth From Stagflation / Stock-Markets / Stagflation
By: Money_Morning
Sean Hyman writes:
The year was 1973.
I was just a toddler, so I couldn't fully appreciate the next-generation Camaro that had just come out or the release of the new Pontiac Firebird Formula.
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Volatility is Not The Same As Risk in the Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Volatility
By: Rory_Gillen
If it looks like risk, feels like risk and acts like risk, it is natural to conclude that it is risk. But in turbulent times, such as now, investors must remind themselves that volatility is not the same as risk.
The stock markets are nothing more than a collection of businesses and risk is highest in individual companies and can be categorised as follows;
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Gold and Stocks Are About To Move in Opposite Directions Get Ready! / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: Chris_Vermeulen
The past few weeks traders and investors have been completely spooked from the surge of negative news and collapsing stock prices. This fear can be seen by looking at the volume on the GLD gold ETF fund. With gold being in the spot light for several years now and the fact that anyone can own gold simply through buying some GLD shares. It only makes sense that reading the volume on this chart gives us a good feel for what the masses are feeling emotionally.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Stock Market Handle Time Continues... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Jack_Steiman
And that means whipsaw, but little action worth talking about. The top today at 1208 should be the near-term high, although we will look for signs that it could be exceeded in the days ahead. 1101 is the clear low, and that level may never be taken out to the down side. The question I am being asked, already, is how long do these handles last. The best answer I can give is, no one knows, but a multi-month handle is very possible, if not likely. The bears did their best to take the markets down below 1249, and they did a great job. When we got extremely oversold, the market bottomed at 1101, and I talked about a handle to form, and that's in place now. It will be boring, and probably long lasting. Lots of whipsaw. Very emotional. In the end nothing from nothing. In the months to come, it'll make a move out of that handle, and there's no way to know, for sure, which way it'll break. It'll be dependent upon economic reports to come over that time.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Stock Market Bears Yell Fire in Empty Theater / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: David_Banister
Let’s clarify the SP 500 situation here:
The lows at 1101 were a convergence of fibonacci weeks, months, sentiment bottoms and VIX extremes along with major insider buying all at the same time.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Coming in October: Next Major Stock Market Cycle Low / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Mike_Paulenoff
A major price cycle on the daily S&P 500 chart, which shows reliability in bottoming about every 15.5 months, is due for its next low on or about October 31. The cycle appears to have been influencing prices since the 2002-03 lows.
To any market historian, the suggestion that such a major cycle is due to bottom next in the second half of October sends shivers down the spine of the most ardent market optimist.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Road to Apathy, Catching Out the Knee-Jerk Stock Buyers of 2008/2009… / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Aftab_Singh
If we had to choose to indulge in just one form of pseudo financial mysticism, we would undoubtedly go for the view that financial assets tend to move in generational cycles. In short, we believe that nothing is more conducive to action than good old muscle memory. Here, I explain why the recent crash in the array of ‘risk assets’ is corroborating our hunch about the generational nature of trends in financial assets. Moreover, I consider one way in which widespread apathy towards speculation may come to pass.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Zombie Wars and the Stock Markets Next Attack / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Bill_Bonner
Whew!
What a week. Traders must be reeling. The rest of us are staggering.
And nobody knows anything.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Stock Markets Brace for More Volatility / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: George_Maniere
Last week was one of the most volatile weeks in the history of the stock market. In my opinion the cause of these wild swings and the subsequent spike in the VIX has been a loss in confidence in investors. The wild swings we witnessed in the market is proof that after three years from a near Armageddon in the financial markets we are far from having an economy that is recovering. There is not a doubt in my mind that we will be in for more volatility in the market because our leaders have been unable to deal with the core issues of a staggering debt and a stagnating economy.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Stock Market Counter Trend Still Rocking.....Not Necessarily Bullish.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Jack_Steiman
Text book market back test under way off the lows, which I've talked about. It's normal market behavior to test back up once you get a massive breakdown such as we've gotten. The oscillators got violently oversold. Oversold at levels rarely, if ever, seen on the daily charts. It certainly makes you take notice, since it begs the question, why did things get this bad? We don't have to understand it, but we do have to recognize that the market didn't like what it saw. We went down 2200 on the Dow, and have since retraced 900 of those points. It could go higher still. That doesn't necessarily mean things are bullish now. Not at all. Only a clean blow through 1249 would change that thesis, and I don't think we'll be seeing that any time soon.
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Monday, August 15, 2011
Stocks Rally Back Toward 1,260 Possible Even If Bear Market Has Kicked-Off / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Chris_Ciovacco
We are participating in a PIMCO conference call this morning with Mohamed A. El-Erian and Bill Gross. PIMCO is very well connected and knowledgeable regarding the bond markets. We may be able to gain some insight into the debt problems in Europe and the United States. Serious debt problems remain and the solutions are not going to be easy since haircuts and negative impacts will be involved.
Monday, August 15, 2011
What Is Stock Market SPX Fair Value / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Tony_Pallotta
Credit and commodity markets are saying one thing while equities are saying another and only time will tell which market(s) were right. History though is clearly on the side of credit and commodities based on prior recessions including the 2008 "not so great" recession where equities peaked just two months before the NBER declared the first month of contraction.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Is The Stock Market Selling Over (For Now)? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Andre_Gratian
SPX: Very Long-term trend - Due to the recent market action, the odds have again shifted in favor of our being in a secular bear market which started in 2007. Whatever takes place over the next few weeks, the very-long-term cycles are down and will exert increasing downward pressure on prices. If they make their lows when expected, there will be another steep and prolonged decline into about 2014 (which may already have started).
SPX: Intermediate trend - There is a chance that the intermediate downtrend ended last Tuesday at 1101.54. Next week should clarify whether or not this is the case.
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Sunday, August 14, 2011
The Summer Stock Market 15% Discount Sale Continues / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The stock market managed to make it through to the other end of a wild week having survived the bears repeatedly letting off both barrels at the bulls, throwing everything they had at the market, starting with the downgrading of the US debt from AAA to AA (eventually to junk), intensifying in core eurozone countries such as France itself now also in the firing line for a downgrade, however by the end of the week the net result was a market that closed higher by about 100 Dow points against last Sunday evenings Dow futures of 11,170.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Global Stock and Financial Market Confidence Meltdown / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: George_Maniere
I have never been big advocate of conspiracy theories. Most of these theories are information that is reported in the media circus to incite anger towards one group of people. Meanwhile the real stealth culprits go unnoticed.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Stock Market Experiences Come To Jesus Moment / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Barry_M_Ferguson
Every now and then, fantasy and lies are dissolved by the truth. The truth cannot be denied. It cannot be misinterpreted. It cannot be distorted. When accepted, these points in time are known as a ‘come to Jesus’ moment. Only the truth matters. This past week, August 8, 2011 thru August 12, 2011, was a come to Jesus moment for the stock market.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Socio-Economics Put China and India at Higher Investment Risk Than The U.S. / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: EconMatters
This week has turned out to be Wall Street's wildest week since 2008. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 519 points on Tuesday, Aug. 10, but then went up 423.37 points. But overall, Down has now lost more than 2,000, or 16% since July 21, less than three weeks ago. The selloff intensified after the U.S. got stripped of the top notch AAA rating by S&P first time ever in history.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Stock Market Setting Up For the Next Decline / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: WavePatternTraders
Last week I left readers with this idea (see graph). Well fast forward and it seems we are setting up for the next move lower in what I suspect is a 5th wave towards lower prices.