Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Stock Market FOMC Volatile Session Closes Near Unchanged / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices had a very volatile day, especially after the FOMC announced that they kept rates unchanged. The morning was spent with the indices moving back and forth on the Nasdaq 100, holding support. The S&P 500 kept moving steadily lower in a down channel until the FOMC report.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Stock Market Confusion? S&P 500 bullish, VIX bearish? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Marty_Chenard
Below is a long term view of the VIX (Volatility Index).Note that the VIX has been below its September inverted support line for the past 4 days while the S&P has been above its support with a triple top upside breakout yesterday.
Yesterday, the S&P breakout was bullish, but the VIX falling below both of its inverted supports at labels 3 and 4 was bearish.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
NBER Declares the Recession is Over / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Mark_McMillan
The NBER declared that the recession ended in June 2009, more than one year ago and apparently the market liked that...
Recommendation: Take no action.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Stock Market Indices Follow Through on Last Week's Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices started the week off with a bang and followed through brilliantly on last week's rally, gapping up from the get-go and exploding early on short covering. They consolidated mid-day, and then ran again hard in the afternoon, as the Nasda 100 had two rallies of more than 20 points during the session and the S&P 500 had two rallies of more than 12 points. Only a last 5-minute pullback prevented them from closing on the highs for the day.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Stock Market Bulls Clear 1131 S&P 500... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
It seemed as if it would never happen, but the bulls refused to let thing get away from them as the bears put up their front at that critical resistance level. Sure we sold off many times from 1131, but never hard and never for long. That was the key. The bears needed to throw everything they had at holding off 1131, but beyond that they simply could not sell this market off in any big way that put the bulls on notice that the bears weren't going to ever let it take place. Shallow pullbacks was all they could put together.
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Monday, September 20, 2010
Monday Stock Market Movement - Mind the (Wealth) Gap! / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
Congratulations to 440,000 of us!
That’s how many people became Millionaires in the past 12 months (ending in June). According to a new survey from Phoenix Marketing International’s Affluent Market Practice, the number of American households with investible assets of $1 million or more rose 8% in the 12 months ended in June. The survey says there now are 5.55 million U.S. households with investible assets of $1 million or more. That follows two years of declines and brings the Millionaire count back to 2006 levels. Of course, that is still below the peak of 5.97 million in 2007 and the current growth rate is well below pre-financial crisis levels, when the Millionaire population increased as much as 35% a year.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Stocks Advance But Irish Bond Spreads Hit Fresh Highs on Debt Crisis / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
Stocks Advance but Irish Bond Spreads Hit Fresh HighsThe big story Friday related to a research report by Barclays Bank (actually published Thursday morning) stating that Ireland MAY require external aid If unexpected banking losses emerged or economic conditions deteriorated further. This assertion was picked up in the most tabloid fashion imaginable by the Irish Independent in a clear case of scare mongering in what smelt of a Fox News make the facts fit the underlying editorial line (i.e. to heap more pressure on the FF / Green’s coalition) and then amplified in a game of worldwide financial Chinese whispers that went viral. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, September 20, 2010
Stock Market Quadruple Witching / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Mark_McMillan
Quadruple witching (expiration of stock index futures, stock index options, stock options, and single stock futures) occurred with relatively low volume and volatility...
Recommendation: Take no action.
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Monday, September 20, 2010
Stock Market SP500 Options Expiry Overnight Shakeout, What’s Next? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
I think it’s safe to say that everyone knows the markets are manipulated... but during options expiry week we tend to see prices move beyond key resistance and support levels during times of light volume which triggers/shakes traders out of their positions.
Trading during low volume sessions Pre/Post holidays for swing traders or between 11:30am – 3:00pm ET for day traders tends have increased volatility and false breakouts. This happens because the market markets for individual stocks can slowly walk the prices up and down beyond short term support and resistance levels simply because there is a lack of participation in the market.
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
Stock Market Trend, the Gold-Plated Economy / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Peter_Navarro
The stock market continues to show technical improvement – even as the economy continues to exhibit fundamental deterioration. On the technical front, Market Edge has its Strength Indices showing improvement while its Momentum Index remains very strong. At the same time, 81 of the 91 Industry Groups followed by Market Edge are rated either strong or improving. This all adds up to a stock market that continues to inch up on weak volume.
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
Stock Market Caught in a Boundary Cycle / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Christopher_Quigley
The market at the moment is going through a “boundary cycle”. Believe it or not the range the Dow Transports is caught in is the range that was created by the flash crash of May 6th. (Dow 30: 10,800 – 9800). As I said immediately after this event it would take a while for the technical position of the market to repair itself and this has proven to be the case. Nothing coming from the SEC has proved that they have managed to deal successfully with the issue of Over The Counter High Frequency Quant Trading and until they do so we will continue to observe outright manipulation of individual equity and index positions. Modern market confidence will not be set on solid ground until HFQT is regulated or banned.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
SPX Revisits Old Low as VIX Makes Primary Cycle Low / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
FDIC Friday back on the job. -
The FDIC Failed Bank List announced six new banks closure this week. Only three were acquired by another bank. This week’s failures cost the agency’s deposit- insurance fund $347.6 million.
Shadow Bank Liabilities Plunge By $700 Billion In Q2, $2.1 Trillion Year To Date - (ZeroHedge) Continuing the analysis of today's Z.1 report, we next focus on recent developments in the shadow banking system. And it's a bloodbath: total shadow bank liabilities dropped by $680 billion in Q2, and a massive $2.1 trillion YTD. If one wonders why Ben Bernanke (yes, it's technically TurboTim) continues to print trillions and trillions of debt, and it is still doing nothing (yet) to stimulate the system, here is your answer.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Stock Market Resilient Indices Close Slightly Ahead / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices had a narrowly positive session. They opened with a big gap up to new highs, pulled back very sharply on negative economic news, but then bounced around, bounced back, and then backed and filled all day, failing to break out above or below support or resistance intraday.
Net of the day, the Dow was up just 13.02 at 10,607.85. The S&P 500 was up 93 cents at 1125.59. The Nasdaq 100, however, was up 7.72 at 1955.83.
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
Stock Market Failure At S&P 500 1131...Overall Action Is Bullish... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
The futures were rocking higher last night. Upon waking this morning those futures held very well, and it looked as though 1131 was going to be left behind once the market opened. The bears had other ideas. The futures slowly started to gather some momentum back down on no news. The bears piling in to knock it down. By the time the market opened, things were green, but well off the highs. That didn't stop the bulls from making one more move back towards that elusive level as the S&P 500 touched 1131.47.
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
It's Late September...Where's the Bear? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Steven_Vincent
(originally published for BullBear Trading Room members on 9/12/10, re-published here with updates)
In the last BullBear Weekend Report on I concluded:
...the likelihood of continued upside in defiance of bearish expectations is high. Whether this represents an intermediate term blip or something more significant is as yet unknown, although there are some long term divergences and indications that point towards a long term bullish conclusion.
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
These Realities are Investor Profit and Protection Enablers / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“THE FED - Yesterday I read Saturday's front page headline in the LA Times and my blood boiled. The headline read, "Fed Stands Ready to 'Do all that it can.' With Growth slowing, Bernanke Says the Central Bank is Willing to Act to Keep the US Out of Recession." The nerve of these bastards; Fed Chairman Greenspan kept interest rates too low for too long, setting off the greatest housing bubble in US history. The bubble burst, as all bubbles do, sending the US into recession and near-deflation. And now our new Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke, has the nerve to tell us that the Fed is going to save us. What kind of pure BS is that? First the Fed kills us and then it steps forward and says it's going to be our savior. Yuck.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Stock Market Short-Term Rally; Long-Term Worry Still the Name of the Game / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Mike_Larson
I often get asked the question: “Why are you so gloomy?” Or “Why can’t you look at the BRIGHT side of things?”
And you know what my answer is? In regular life, I am an optimist. Optimistic to a fault actually! Just ask my family or friends.
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Friday, September 17, 2010
Defeat of the Shadow Shogun, Means It's Time to Buy Japanese Stocks / Stock-Markets / Japanese Stock Market
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan's narrow Tuesday victory over Ichiro Ozawa for the leadership of the Democratic Party of Japan wouldn't normally get investor pulses racing - after all Japan has had five prime ministers in four years.
However, the Bank of Japan's heavy intervention in the currency markets this week confirmed my view that this political twitch was really very different.
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Friday, September 17, 2010
Euro/Yen Weakness Points to Stable Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Donald_W_Dony
In the September 9, 2010 Market Minute titled: US bond yields and the S&P 500, technical evidence indicated that 10-year yields were starting to rise. This data is key because bond yields and the S&P 500 trade in parallel patterns. Another signal of potential equity stability is now coming from the currency market.
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Friday, September 17, 2010
S&P 500 Lags as Indices Snapback from Morning Losses / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices opened lower today and spent much of the day in negative to neutral territory, meandering back and forth in consolidation ranges. When it was apparent that support was holding, after being tested three times, they then turned back north, and in early afternoon started a rally that lasted until near the close, a very strong move that took the Nasdaq 100 up near 1950.