Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Will the S&P Test "Flash Crash" Low? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Yesterday, when I wrote about my perceptions of what would create "crash-event" (panic) conditions in the emini S&P 500 (e-SPM) -- a sustained break of 1056, followed by a breach of 1036 -- the e-SPM was trading at 1108. Already today, the e-SPM has pressed beneath my "orthodox low" at 1090.75 from 5/07 to a new reaction low at 1074.50, off of the April high 1216.75 (-11.7%). We can see from the enclosed daily chart that 1074.50 does not represent any particular technical significance (support) other than the fact that if the index did not continue to the downside from there then perhaps a condition of near-term bearish exhaustion has set in.
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
What Does Germany’s Short Selling Credit-Default-Swap Ban Mean for You? / Stock-Markets / Government Intervention
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: Germany did something on Tuesday that I've been hoping would happen for three years: It outlawed naked short-selling and speculation on European government bonds with naked credit default swaps.
The financial institutions that have been profiting from this type of speculation immediately went on the offensive.
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Stock, Commodity and Financials Trading, The Quick And The Dead / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Bob_Clark
The Fat Boys are stop killers. You must learn the ways of the Fat Boys.
This sudden plunge in the market has been a wake up call to investors. Complacency is dangerous. It re-enforces bad habits and can lead to not questioning how we think and who we listen to. The price of (financial) freedom is eternal vigilance.
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Stock Market Negative Session Takes Out Short-term Support / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices opened positive but then immediately sold off sharply in a 3-wave decline that reached the session lows just before noon at about 1851 on the Nasdaq 100 and about 1100 on the S&P 500. They rallied backed steadily over the next couple hours to reach their snapback highs right above minor resistance, and then sold off, but with about 40 minutes to go snapped back again and managed to take back more losses, but still ended negative on the session in what looked liked bear-flag consolidation intraday.
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
China Stock Market SSEC Index Completing Correction? / Stock-Markets / Chinese Stock Market
By: David_Banister
The recent Shanghai Surprise has been breaking that potential bullish triangle I outlined several weeks ago with a downside break of 2900. Subscribers to TheMarketTrendForecast.Com may recall that was my line in the sand for the SSEC index to remain bullish. With the break of that possible bull triangle, the SSEC index has fallen down to near 2500. Everyone on CNBC is bearish on the Chinese Indexes now, and I can’t find any bulls for that country either. They were everywhere several months ago, and now, nowhere to be found.
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Stock Market Dow New Highs All Lies / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Sol_Palha
"All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief." ~ Marcus T. Cicero 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
As the saying goes, a picture speaks a thousand words and the charts below quite clearly illustrates that the Dow has not put in a single new high in the past 3 years.
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Crude Oil Prices, European Currencies Fall / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: LiveCharts
Oil prices have dropped below $70 per barrel for light sweet crude as the Euro and British Pound are both getting crushed amidst the mounting pressure from the debt crisis that has hit many major European economies.
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Stock Market WTF Wednesday? Bangkok Burns, Blankfein Moves Up / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
On May 6th I warned that revolution was in the air. Today Thailand’s Stock Exchange has been put to flames by protestors along with the malls they can no longer afford to shop in and the television stations that lie to them and tell them how great everything is while their lifestyles go down the toilet. Like any good colony of cockroaches, Thai traders had already scurried off to do their trading elsewhere - in a secret location away from the lights and they took their market UP 0.7%, betting that this out-of-hand violence will now be met with an equally violent government response that will end all this silliness and let them get back to skimming their profits off the people on a daily basis.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Investors Shocked By German Naked Short Selling Ban / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
U.S. financial stocks fell sharply towards the end of Tuesday’s trading session, dragging the market to another 100 point plus decline. The reasons? Investors were shocked & unnerved by Germany’s plans to ban naked short-selling which served to reinforce rather than dispel worries over the sovereign debt crisis. Also growing uncertainty facing banking in the face of increased scrutiny & regulatory control.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Stock Market Retest Continues, But... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jay_DeVincentis
Retest Continues, But...
Here’s our view on the current action.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Protect Yourself from the Next Stock Market "Flash Crash / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Just when you thought it was safe to get back into U.S. stocks, you think you see a shark.
If you are searching - like the regulatory lifeguards and all the political beach bums - to pinpoint and kill the menacing shark that took a huge bite out of investor confidence when the Dow Jones Industrial Average tanked 1,000 points in a just a few minutes late in the day on May 6, don't bother to scan the horizon looking for the dorsal fin of some lurking predator.
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Stock Market Indices Stair-Step Lower & Close Near Key Support / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices opened strong today and reached the session highs in the first 20 minutes, and from there it was downhill the rest of the day as the S&P 500 stair-stepped lower in a neat, orderly channel to retest yesterday's lows. At that point they bounced a couple times, but couldn't make any progress.
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Is Your IRA or 401K a Target of Government Appropriation? / Stock-Markets / Pensions & Retirement
By: Lorimer_Wilson
By: Chris Blasi - Will the laws and rules in place to protect individuals in their attempt to set something aside for retirement be safeguarded by the representatives elected to advocate for them in Washington? Will the principles and moral integrity of the political class keep them from appropriating the trillions of dollars held in 401k's and IRA's? I'm not so sure!
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Stock Market Gap Up And Reversal...200's Holding So Far... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
The market had put in a doji yesterday but did not do so at a critical level of support or resistance. We got the expected bounce at the open but did not hold, which often happens away from those critical support or resistance areas. Less trustworthy to hold for a full day. Once the gap up got taken out and filled it was all down hill from there.
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Euro Crisis Shock and Awe, Short Selling Ban As Politicians Battle Market Crash / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Mike_Shedlock
Germany to Ban Naked Short-Selling at Midnight; Politicians Battle Markets; Short Selling Restrictions and Market Crashes
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
The Great Commodities Con, Dangers of Investing in ETF's, Exchange Traded Funds / Stock-Markets / Exchange Traded Funds
By: John_Mauldin
A quick introduction for this week's Outside the Box. This is from my London Partner Niels Jensen, talking about the problems with long only commodity funds. This is something I discuss frequently but have not written about in some time. Quite simply, many of the commodity ETFs do not deliver what they promise and in fact many of the inverse funds can lose you money even when you make the right macro call.
Niels gives us a very good explanation of why this is so. So for those of you who have "diversified" into commodity ETFs (not actively managed funds!) or are thinking about it you might really want to read this.
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Golden Goose vs. Black Swans, Gold the Other Currency / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: HRA_Advisory
April ushered in both broader evidence of recovery in parts of the Western economy, and a series of both ecological and economic “events” that are quite worrisome. It’s unlikely any of the April events (including, we fervently hope, sovereign debt) would be, in and of itself, shattering. What each does is to impact the psychology under which markets are operating and hence how they perform. The cumulative impact of these events after a strong uptick means sell buttons are being pushed, and should be signaling profits taking by you. How much is the question.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
What Becomes of a Broken Stock Market? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: EWI
There are two possible Elliott wave paths for stocks from here -- but only one likely outcome.
You know what a mystery the Dow's 1,000-point drop on May 6 has been.
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Are We Set For Stock Market Turnaround Tuesday? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
US stocks rose Monday, with the Dow dramatically reversing a 184-point drop, as a rise in the US homebuilders NAHB index and the euro’s rebound from a four-year low bolstered optimism. Sprint Nextel climbed 3% to help lead telephone companies to the biggest gain among 10 groups after saying “steep” revenue declines have ended. GLG Partners rallied 50% as Man Group agreed to buy the hedge-fund firm for $1.6 billion.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Stock Market Strategies for the Post-Financial-Crisis ‘New World Order’ / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: For many investors, the recent thousand-point plunge by the U.S. stock market was probably the proverbial last straw.
So let me be perfectly clear about the point that I want to make here: Sitting on the sidelines could be the investment mistake of a lifetime. The post-financial-crisis "new world order" that's emerged from the speculative excesses, recessionary realities and regulatory breakdowns of recent years has created a world of lucrative new profit opportunities - governed by a new set of profit rules.
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