Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Friday, June 04, 2010

Confirming the Stock Market Flash Crash Omen / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Gordon_T_Long

The highly discussed and quickly forgotten Flash Crash was an omen of what lies ahead for the financial markets. It was a uniquely distinctive occurrence relative to anything we’ve ever experienced. Likewise, what we are about to witness will be startling and never before observed by this generation of investors. After only thirty days the Flash Crash signal has become unambiguous and historians will wonder why the public didn’t react sooner to its clarion call.

Friday, June 04, 2010

Non Farm Payrolls Disappoints Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: PaddyPowerTrader

Even on a typical uber quiet pre-payrolls day, the on going tug-of-war between strong economic data in the US and European sovereign banking risks was clearly visible with the former triumphing by a short head giving the S&P 500 Index its first back-to-back gains since April. Microsoft and Cisco led advances in the Dow and Dell rose 4.9% helping lead technology shares to the biggest gain in the S&P 500, after its founder said he has considered taking the company private. The losers were basic resource / mining stocks like Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold which sank after saying China’s plans to crimp growth will hurt demand for copper.

Friday, June 04, 2010

Two Big Reasons to Believe the U.S. Stock Market Will Bounce Back / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Money_Morning

Jon D. Markman writes: There's been a lot of cheerless news coming out of Europe lately, and that's taken a toll on the U.S. stock market. But I want to take this opportunity to offer up some positive points and remind investors that it's still too early to declare the bull-market dead, and even more premature to fret over a new bear market beginning.

Friday, June 04, 2010

Robert Prechter Stocks Bear Market Cycle Forecast / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: EWI

The August 2009 issue listed the range for typical retracement as being from 9368 to 11,620. This is a wide range, but there is nothing we can do about it; second waves have a lot of leeway. The illustration shown in that issue is reproduced below alongside an update of market prices. The Dow has so far stayed within the normal range."

Friday, June 04, 2010

Positive Session for the Stock Market Bulls / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Harry_Boxer

The stock market indices managed to eek out a gain at the end of the day today, only because of a late afternoon rally.

The day started out on the plus side and then sold off in a 3-wave decline by midday, reaching the session lows at that point. When further downside was unable to be attained, the indices tried the upside, tested the declining topslines, backed off there, but came on again and blew through them with a couple hours to go. They then stair-stepped their way higher near the afternoon highs at the close to put the indices back in the plus column.

Friday, June 04, 2010

Stock Market Needs To Test Higher...MACD's Cross Up / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Jack_Steiman

The late day action saw something important take place. Oversold MACD's crossed up positive, which tells me that we should be trying higher prices in the short-term. MACD's weren't crossing across the board, but the late action allowed for all the major indexes to cross up on the daily charts and that's near-term bullish thus shorting should not be your mantra short-term. If the market were to fall tomorrow it would set up strong positive divergences on deeper selling. Also that divergence would come from very compressed MACD's thus it would be best for this market to trend higher. Another excuse for the bears to step aside overall.

Friday, June 04, 2010

Seven Reasons We Are Glad To Have Stock Market Short Sell Positions / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: David_Grandey

Seven reasons we are glad we have short exposure.

Friday, June 04, 2010

Ending Phase of the Cyclical Stocks Bull Market? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market

By: Toby_Connor

I have to wonder, are we entering the ending phase of this cyclical bull?

For sometime now I've noticed the similarities between the `02-`07 cyclical bull and what we've experienced since March of last year. The one difference is that this time we've truncated the middle phase of the bull. I suspect that was a direct result of the massive liquidity Bernanke ... and all central banks have pumped into the system.

Thursday, June 03, 2010

Underwhelming Jobs Numbers See Stocks Trim Gains / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: PaddyPowerTrader

In another late late show Wednesday US stocks, as I expected, rebounded from oversold levels in the last hour of trading because of stronger than expected home sales (buyers took advantage of the now expired tax credit), decent auto sales numbers and a read on the Challenger layoffs survey which implied underlying jobs growth of 200k. Other contributing factors were the calm on the bad news from Europe front and comments from Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan that he saw “more than hopeful signs” on loan demand.

Thursday, June 03, 2010

Strong Three-Wave Rally Closes Stock Indices Near Session Highs / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Harry_Boxer

The stock market indices rocketed higher today after an early morning dip in a strong 3-wave rally. The indices had a superior turnaround session as earlier losses were wiped with a strong morning rally. They did get a midday pullback to test intraday support and then turned it around for the sharpest rally of the day in the last hour and a half. In the last 10--15 minutes they spiked up into the close and finished right near the session highs going away.

Thursday, June 03, 2010

Gold & SP500 Low Risk Trading Setups / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Chris_Vermeulen

It’s been a very exciting week so far for gold and SP500 traders as we take advantage of mass crowd behavior. Trading against the masses can be very profitable during certain situations but more times than not it’s a great way to lose money which is why I focus on taking the opposite side of these moves.

Thursday, June 03, 2010

Stock Market Understanding Where We Are....Is it A Bear?..Still A Bull?... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Jack_Steiman

The evolution of a market is never easy to fully understand as there can be so many "obvious" messages built in. It's obvious we're this, or it's obvious we're that, when in truth, nothing is very obvious at all.

Let's talk about what we do know. We know that the market at this moment is in a clear down trend. Today does not change that one bit.

Thursday, June 03, 2010

Stock Market Trading Over The Next Four Months / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Donald_W_Dony

Following the May 20, 2010 Market Minute titled "Reversal levels reached", global equity markets have completed the expected correction and are now starting the next four month trading cycle. This means that there is a high probability of positive markets in June.

Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Tough Resistance Ahead for S&P 500 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Mike_Paulenoff

Now that the e-mini S&P 500 has recovered just about all of yesterday's late-session plunge (18 points), what if anything does the big-picture candlestick chart tell us?

Wednesday, June 02, 2010

European Bourses in Red But U.S. Stocks Set For Rebound / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: PaddyPowerTrader

Tuesday saw another example of how nervous and jittery markets are prone to excesses, which result in exaggerated kneejerk reactions to the latest breaking news story. An AFP report that Lebanese forces had fired on Israeli warplanes triggering another late rush for the exit, leaving the Dow down 1.1%. Earlier in the day it had been buoyed by better than expected ISM (manufacturing) & constructing spending numbers.

Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Institutional Investors An Critically Important Indicator? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Marty_Chenard

For years, we have pointed out that Institutional Investors pretty much ruled the markets because they were responsible for 50% to 70%+ of the volume in any given day.

For that reason, watching how much they buy and how much they sell everyday is critical. Buying when Institutions are selling is foolhardy, and so is selling when Institutional investors are buying.

Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Health Care Sector, the Ultimate Hedge in Economic Crisis / Stock-Markets / Healthcare Sector

By: John_Mauldin

This week we have a really counter-intuitive Outside the Box. I was talking with the editor of Breakthrough Technology Alert, Patrick Cox about health care costs and he made some very interesting observations from new research about health care. It seems healthy people pay more for health care than sick people. I asked him to do a write-up for us. Despite the new health care bill that passed, health care costs are going to go up, not down. And that's a good thing, as Pat explains. You really want to read this.

Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Stock Investing Top Profit Plays for a Defensive Portfolio / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010

By: Money_Morning

William Patalon III writes: Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz once said that "the best defense is a good offense." Although that bit of wisdom has been used everywhere from the battlefield to the gridiron, it could just as easily be deployed as part of a "defensive investing" strategy.

And in today's markets - whipsawed by worries emanating from virtually every major market around the globe - a defensive-investing plan needs to include protective stops, inverse funds, high-yielding dividend shares, "sin stocks, and investments in oil and other value-storing commodities," Keith Fitz-Gerald, the best-selling author who is Money Morning's chief investment strategist, said in an interview this week.

Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Stock Market Indices Roll Over Hard in Last Hour / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Harry_Boxer

The stock market indices were quite volatile in the morning, opening sharply lower and then bouncing sharply higher. The Nasdaq 100 made new rally highs at that point just under 1880, but the S&P 500 did not make new highs, and that negative divergence caused a sharp pullback.

Wednesday, June 02, 2010

No Stock Market Bottom in Sight, Bear Market Forces Gathering Strength / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Steve_Betts

"The National Government will regard it as it’s first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life."-- Adolph Hitler, My New World Order, Proclamation to the German Nation at Berlin, February 1, 1933