Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Obama Banking Reforms Maybe Too Little Too Late, Stock Market Nosedives / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

It may be the right direction, but not nearly enough...

President Barack Obama’s proposal to impose limits on may win him support on Main Street and shake up Wall Stcommercial banksreet without doing much to make the financial system safer overall. The plan, which is still lacking in details and must be approved by Congress, aims to make the banks more secure by forcing them to minimize the trading they do on their own account and give up their stakes in hedge funds and private equity firms. “It’s the right direction,” said Henry Kaufman, president of Henry Kaufman & Co. in New York and a former vice chairman of Salomon Inc.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Stock Market Sentiment Selling Under Way...50 Day Ema's All Gone / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Jack_Steiman

We started the day with a move lower once again. Markets across the oceans were lower and thus so were ours. You could feel the fear of buying after the selling over the past few days. During the week nearly all of the major Indices we track broke through not only our Rising Support Lines off the March Lows but also our 50-EMA support levels. Bigger picture if you study our first chart today of the S&P 500 monthly. The market stalled out at our highlighted backtest of our 2008 breakdown area at our 1150 Resistance Zone which is clearly seen in our first chart.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Interepreting a Crazy Week for Stock Market Index Traders / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Chris_Vermeulen

It’s been a crazy week for stock and futures traders as the market moved up and down like a yo-yo, finally closing down sharply on the week.

Earlier this week I posted a report showing the Volatility Index (VIX) and how it was then trading at an extreme low level which triggered the sharp market corrections. Since that post the VIX has now risen over 30% as traders start selling positions to lock in gains.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Ganging Up on the Stock Market! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Sy_Harding

I wrote in last week’s column that “the next few weeks could be a testing time for both bulls and bears”.

To my way of thinking too many influential participants decided to take part in that testing this week for comfort.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Impending Gold and Stock Market Moves and Banking Cartel Interventions / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: DeepCaster_LLC

“What would happen if a country tried to leave (the European) Monetary Union…

Half a century of ever-closer union has created a ‘new legal order’ that transcends a ‘largely obsolete concept of sovereignty’ and imposes a ‘permanent limitation’ on the states' rights…

Friday, January 22, 2010

Doug Casey Says Bet Against Wall Street, Bonds, and after a few months the U.S. Dollar / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Casey_Research

L: Doug, I saw a Wall Street Journal headline a few days ago that boldly proclaimed, "Car Makers May Hire Soon." Be still, my trembling heart! It’s hard to believe the WSJ would stoop to such a meaningless headline, but I guess they are just trying to give their desperate customers what they want: some hope, whether valid or not. What do you make of the unemployment situation?

Friday, January 22, 2010

Marc Faber Gold, Stocks and Oil Outlook for 2010 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: LewRockwell

Here is the summary and my thoughts on a trio of Dr. Marc Faber's latest interview where he discussed his 2010 outlook on China bubble, sovereign default risk, stocks and commodities.

Friday, January 22, 2010

BubbleOmics, The Ancient Art of Spotting Financial and Commodity Market Bubbles Before They Pop / Stock-Markets / Liquidity Bubble

By: Andrew_Butter

George Soros has been playing with bubbles since when I was a baby. The Great Sage once said that “recognizing a bubble is not hard, but figuring out when it will pop is guesswork”.

According to his son he was being economical with the truth. Apparently how his dad tells a “pop” is coming is that his back starts to hurt like crazy, so then he goes out and does things like break the Bank of England.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Stock Market Support Test Fails, More Selling to Come / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Jay_DeVincentis

Test Failed

With support failing, our call for a low later this month could come in.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Stock Index Trading System Says Add to Long Positions / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Angelo_Campione

Official signal: SPX Signal - BUY __ __ __ __ (75% Long)

The system is signaling to add to our long position.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Stock Market Selling Accelerates... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Jack_Steiman

When sentiment needs correcting, the only way to really do it is to shake the tree. If you get small drips and drabs it is quite unlikely that you'll get scared out of the market. You'll look at every small down move as a buying opportunity. The only way to change that thinking is to make things look bad. Really bad. Scare you bad. To make you think twice about buying those dips and to get to the point where you won't buy the dips. Where your reaction to downside will be I am not touching that. It has to go much lower from here.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Signs of Global Stock Market Crash and Financial Meltdown / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Mac_Slavo

There’s a lot of buzz hitting the contrarian financial news circles around the web regarding recent market weakness and the possibility for the end of the rally which began in March of 2009.

Many contrarian investors have been waiting for the crash that is inevitably to follow the largest US market rally in modern history, and this may be it. We caution our readers, however, that over the last year there have been various false signals, and rather than seeing a crash in the Summer of 2009 or Fall of 2009, stock markets continued to push up, despite abysmal economic fundamentals.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Stock Market Set to Crash / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Casey_Research

Doug Casey: "Stock Market Set to Crash" (Interviewed by Louis James, Editor, International Speculator)

L: So, what's on your mind this week, Doug? I understand you've had a "guru moment"…

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Short S&P 500 ETF Confronting Key Resistance / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Mike_Paulenoff

Last week I entered a 50% long position in the single-levered Short S&P 500 ProShares ETF (NYSE: SH) just in case Mr. Market decided it did not like earnings season or the President's agenda.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Broad Based Declined Across Financial Markets Except the Dollar, The Big One Could Finally Be Here / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: J_Derek_Blain

This week, we are witnessing something that should become fairly "as usual" over the coming months:  Broad based price declines in virtually every major asset except the USD. 

Gold is down about 3% for the week so far, silver is down about 6.5% for the week, and the USD is up (according to our analysis there really isn't much chance of it going anywhere else for the next while).

Thursday, January 21, 2010

China Stock Market, Never Short a Country That Has $2 Trillion in Cash / Stock-Markets / Chinese Stock Market

By: Money_Morning

Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: The first rule of successful global investing - to paraphrase the words of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman - is a simple one.

Never short a country with $2.3 trillion in currency reserves.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Stock Market Bears Get the Ball Rolling / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Jack_Steiman

Today we saw the Dow down as much as 210 points before it rallied off of some oversold 60-minute charts. It finished down 122 points which is still somewhat satisfactory for the bears. They can at least feel as if they did a little damage, although, there has to be some frustration over the fact that they couldn't even close the major indexes below the 20-day exponential moving average. Only when that is accomplished will they get the chance to take this market down to the 50-day exponential moving averages across the major index charts.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Stock Market, Gold Meltdown and U.S. Dollar Strength / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Chris_Vermeulen

For the past few weeks I have been expecting the market to correct. By looking at the price action on the weekly and daily charts we can see that there has not been any real pullback since November and that is important to note. Without regular market corrections stocks start to become over bought meaning everyone has/is buying them and no real sellers have jumped off the trend. So when the price in an over bought market starts to slide lower we generally see everyone rush to hit their sell buttons. This is what causes the high volume breakdowns similar to the GLD (Gold) breakdown last December.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Stock Market Negative Reactions / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Paul_J_Nolte

The economic data continues to disappoint, although may are looking at the bright side (at least it is not as bad as last year!). However, the bit of “news” that surprised investors was news from JP Morgan as they released earnings data that they will be stashing more reserves away to cover additional loan losses. That took the markets down a peg and increased investors concerns that just maybe the stock market and economy are moving in two different directions.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Stock Market Remains in Sell Mode / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Jay_DeVincentis

Brown Beats Coakley

What does that mean for the markets?