Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

The Inflation Mega-Trend Ebook, Economic and Financial Market Forecasts For 2010 and Beyond / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Nadeem_Walayat

The NEW FREE Inflation Mega-Trend ebook presents in-depth analysis and and precise concluding forecasts for the key economic indicators of inflation, interest rates and economic growth which have been applied to a range of financial markets and investment trends that further conclude towards precise forecasts.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

FEAR DAVOS 2010, Into The Bomb Shelter / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2010

By: Darryl_R_Schoon

Predators and parasites recently gathered in Davos to discuss the mounting problems of their prey. All present agreed the problem needed urgent attention.

Historian David Hackett Fisher describes this passing era as the period of Victorian Equilibrium. England’s Victorian Equilibrium, however, was built on banker’s credit, a foundation of sand; and like the story of Cinderella where the carriage turns into a pumpkin at midnight, the banker’s credit has now turned into defaulting debt and the fairy-tale world it built is collapsing.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Stock Market, Dollar and Commodity Charts of the Week / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Mike_Paulenoff

This week's Charts of the Week cover the overall equity market via the S&P 500 and then look at the dollar (via its ETF, the UUP) and commodities such as gold, silver and agriculture that are impacted by the dollar (via their ETFs such as the GLD, GDX, SLV, DBA and DBC).

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Stock Market Former Support is Now Resistance / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Graham_Summers

Yesterday I explained why the market began to rally sharply Friday afternoon. Today we’re looking at where the market is from a technical perspective. Be forewarned, if you’re a bull, what follows isn’t pretty.

For starters, the first thing we need to keep prominent in our thinking is that the market rally from March 2009-January 2010 was largely a technically driven rally fueled by easy money from the world’s Central Banks: Governments around the engaged in an unprecedented amount of stimulus/ bailouts and much of this money found its way into the financial markets.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Stock Market Funny Action Friday: What Happened? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation

By: Graham_Summers

Many investors have written in asking me what happened on Friday. For those of you who weren’t watching the tape, stocks entered a free fall around 1PM Eastern Time. It looked like we were going to get another massive drop similar to the one that occurred at Thursday’s open.
 
However, suddenly at 2PM stocks began to stage a sharp reversal with virtually every major US index ramping over 1% in a matter of minutes. Having collapsed for days, stocks actually managed to close Friday at a gain.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Stocks and Gold Slice Through Support / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Graham_Summers

The S&P 500 sliced through its January lows yesterday, killing any notion that this latest drop is just a brief dip with which to buy. The next lines of support are the November low (1,040) and then the October low (1,020).

Monday, February 08, 2010

Stock Markets Time to Dance or Time to Drop / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Sol_Palha

"Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown." ~ Chinese Proverbs, Sayings of Chinese Origin

Monday, February 08, 2010

Stock Market Bounce No Follow Through... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Jack_Steiman

And that's what everyone was expecting after that wonderful hammer on all the critical index charts in the last hour on Friday. The S&P 500 touched the 200-day exponential moving average at 1046 (1044 print) and then burst higher. It was the first test in an extremely long time and after losing the 20- and 50-day exponential moving averages, one would think that whichever index got down to the 200-day exponential moving average first would give the market a quick blast higher and that's what happened.

Monday, February 08, 2010

Fear, Gold and the U.S. Dollar / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Frank_Holmes

The U.S. dollar was up last week against the euro out of fear of how debt problems in Greece and elsewhere in Europe will be resolved, and as a result gold had a tough week.

Monday, February 08, 2010

Stock Market Massive Head and Shoulders Bearish Price Pattern / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Captain_Hook

Major stock market indices put in outside weekly reversals last week, which is a bearish technical indication the intermediate-term trend may have finally rejoined the primary forces that would see prices far lower were it not for official intervention. And although this intervention is now getting talked about in the press in a more intelligent fashion, even if only on a very limited basis, it should be understood most remain oblivious to what makes the stock market world go round.

Monday, February 08, 2010

Stock Market Searches for Direction on Rudderless Monday / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: PaddyPowerTrader

A choppy whippy day but US stocks rose Friday, with the Dow Jones erasing a 167-point drop in the final hour of trading, on speculation the European Union may propose a solution for Greece’s budget deficit. Oil, gold and copper rebounded, and the dollar pared its gain. The late day rally has been put down to short covering. 

Monday, February 08, 2010

Stocks Bear Market and Crash Bomb Damage Assessment for Key Asset Categories / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009

By: Richard_Shaw

This article takes a look at results for important asset categories since several key dates: (1) the approximate October 2007 stock markets high, (2) the approximate March 2009 stock markets low, (3) YTD 2010, and (4) since the January 19, 2010 election breaking the 60% Democrat super-majority in the US Senate.

Monday, February 08, 2010

The Greatest Money War of All Time / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Martin_D_Weiss

We are caught in the grips of a great war!

It is not a traditional land or sea war with tanks and battleships.

Nor is it an anti-terrorist, guerilla war for hearts and minds.

Monday, February 08, 2010

Stock Market Wild Friday / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Jay_DeVincentis

Wild Friday

Here’s how we see it.

Monday, February 08, 2010

Stock Market Close to Finding a Short-term Bottom / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Angelo_Campione

General Commentary: The system for the SPY is on a Buy signal 50%

The market was able to make some nice gains early on in the week, but then panic set in on Thursday and we saw all the gains wash away with a 3% drop for one session. Friday continued the drop except that we saw a recovery late in the session and this could now set up a nice bounce in the near term.

Monday, February 08, 2010

U.S. Joins Global Debt Bomb Club / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Money_Morning

Jon D. Markman writes: The most important fundamental development of the week was not any of a slew of economic reports at all but the new federal budget proposal released by the White House. And it was a doozy: The Obama Administration proposed to spend $3.8 trillion, with $1.6 trillion on the equivalent of the national credit card. 

Monday, February 08, 2010

Stock Market S&P 500 Down Trend Cycle In Firm Force / Stock-Markets / Cycles Analysis

By: Jim_Curry

The U.S. stock markets have taken a dive since mid-January, where the various indexes were each in the process of going over larger cyclical peaks. That topping action was then favored to give way to a sharp correction into the month of March - then to be on the lookout for technical signs of the next mid-term low.

Monday, February 08, 2010

Stock Market Trading Position Weighting Change / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Lynn_T

We are moving out of cash.but which way?

Happy Super Bowl Sunday! As I get ready to watch the championship game of the NFL, my appetizers are all set to put in the oven, wine is decanting, beer is stocked in the cooler and a few of my indicators have shifted their positions. Bullish or bearish?

Sunday, February 07, 2010

Gold and Stock Market SP500 Psychology: They Bail, We Buy / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Chris_Vermeulen

Understanding market psychology is crucial for a trader’s success. But so many people get caught up in the daily market volatility, media coverage and “noise” of the trading environment, it’s almost impossible to not think and trade in agreement with the majority of traders.

Sunday, February 07, 2010

Capitalism Reigns, Stocks Bull Market in Self-Delusion / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Charlie_Tarango

The Obvious

Jesse Livermore is one of the Greatest Legends on Wall Street.  Rightfully so.

From him and from experience I am have learned one of the most important things a Participant can ever learn in Markets: