Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Lateral Stock Market... Negative Divergences Abound... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jack_Steiman
Wouldn't it be nice if the stock market would actually do something! Lateral has been the way for quite some time now. Lots of head fakes both ways but when you study things, the past month or so has seen the market grind up and down due to opposing forces from both the bullish side and the bearish side of the ledger. The bulls can talk quite a bit about what's being reported from our Government. I'm not saying they're reporting the absolute truth. I'm just saying what's being reported. Most of the economic news is favorable these days. It tells us the worst of things has passed on by.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Bernanke Says Financial Firms Should Pay for Bank Closings Costs Not Tax Pay / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke called on Congress to ensure that the costs of closing down large financial institutions are borne by the industry instead of taxpayers. The Fed chairman called for a “credible process” for imposing losses on the shareholders and creditors, saying “any resolution costs incurred by the government should be paid through an assessment on the financial industry.”
Friday, October 23, 2009
Unexpected Stock and Commodity Market Moves Should Not Be Ignored / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Chris_Ciovacco
In the last two weeks, in Reflation Supported By Stocks, Commodities, and Oil, and Gold, Recessions, Bonds, and 1987, we hypothesized that recent bullish moves in gold, oil, and the CRB Index were evidence of successful "reflation" of asset prices via monetary and fiscal policy. This week, we can add copper and emerging markets to the bullish evidence list. From a fundamental perspective, the desire to hold copper is based on economic need (you want to make a product), and inflation protection (you want to own hard assets rather than paper currencies).
Friday, October 23, 2009
Heading for Deflationary Stock and Economic Market Crash / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: EWI
We want to tell you about a financial analyst who’s made the journey from fame to outcast and back. We want to tell you about the man who successfully forecast today’s investment environment when virtually everyone, everywhere said he was wrong.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Stock Market Rally Provides Investors An Incredible Opportunity to Sell into Strength / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Chris_Galakoutis
Curtain Call for Inflationary Run - The collapse of 2008 occurred because the US was clearly on an unsustainable path of excessive consumption and speculation, financed by credit. Debts are IOU’s with repayment terms, which means debtors must pay interest to creditors; borrowers therefore are on the hook for the principle as well as the interest, and the whole system falls apart when debtors are unable to pay because they 1) don’t produce anything, or 2) are denied new credit that becomes scarce when booms turn to bust.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Overdue Stock Market SPX Pullback / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Zeal_LLC
It’s sure been an awesome year in the stock markets! By this week, the benchmark S&P 500 index (SPX) had soared 62.3% from its despair-laden March low and 21.6% year-to-date. Naturally the gains have been fantastic in this dream environment for traders, with nearly all sectors relentlessly powering higher.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Stock Market Bulls Punch Back... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jack_Steiman
Just when it looked like all hope was lost for this rally to hang in there, the bulls fought back today in a big way, engulfing the losses from yesterday. Not much news to go on except some good Dow earnings reports this morning. The market gapped down big on the Nasdaq, but the Dow wanted green. The market was bifurcated with the Nasdaq down 10, but the Dow up 40 an hour or so in. After that, the Nasdaq started to reverse while the Dow kept going. The S&P 500 started lower but it too reversed as the banking stocks started to turn up after the downgrade on Wells Fargo Company (WFC) late day yesterday.
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Friday, October 23, 2009
Stock Indices Close with a Bang! / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The indices ended with a bang on Thursday, but they started out much differently.
The indices dropped sharply at the opening and went to new pullback lows. They were short-term oversold at that point, at key trendline support on the Nasdaq 100 and just below key initial support on the S&P 500. They rallied back in a 5-wave advance, with the 5th wave being the sharpest that took the indices to key overhead resistance, only backing off in the last half hour.
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Friday, October 23, 2009
Cycles Impact on Financial Markets / Stock-Markets / Cycles Analysis
By: HRA_Advisory
Mayan Indian elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun has restated his belief that the world is not going to end in 2012. Or more precisely, that his beliefs don’t suggest the world should end despite it being the end of a major cycle in the Mayan calendar. According to China Daily, he is even more emphatic that he’s tired of being asked about it. 2012 is the end of a 5126 year cycle (end of the 13th of 13 Baktun). It also ends a 26800 year cycle that may relate to the Earth’s wobble, which is useful for gauging the drift of seasonal climate changes. China Daily also briefly mentions predictions by 16th century (Christian calendar) French herbalist Nostradamus that is being combined with the Mayan cycles to create buzz for a spate of movies and TV specials.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Watch What Institutional Stock Market Investors are Doing / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment
By: Marty_Chenard
As an analytical firm, we pay for a lot of special data that the public can't get. Sometimes, the data is of major importance relative to what is going on in the stock market.
One such piece of data has to do with what Institutional Investors are doing. We all know that they are responsible for over 50% of any given day's volume ... which is why following this investment group is so important.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Earnings: Is That REALLY What's Driving The DJIA Higher? / Stock-Markets / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
The idea of earnings driving the broad stock market is a myth.
Vadim Pokhlebkin writes: It's corporate earnings season again, and everywhere you turn, analysts talk about the influence of earnings on the broad stock market:
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Unbundle the Stock Market with Sector ETFs / Stock-Markets / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Ron_Rowland
Investors often think about “the stock market” as if it were some kind of giant creature rumbling through the woods. However, the stock market is more like a whole bunch of little creatures, each of which can move on its own. Yes, there’s a general tendency for equities to go in the same general direction — but there are almost always exceptions.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Stock Market Cycles Heading South / Stock-Markets / Cycles Analysis
By: Jim_Curry
So far, in 2009, the stock indexes have seen two firm corrections. The first was a 29% drop (basis SPX CASH) from the 01/06/09 high to the 03/06/09 bottom - with the second being the 9% decline from the 6/11/09 high to the 07/08/09 low.
Are you ready for number three?
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Robert Prechter, Conquer the Crash and Prosper During the Deflationary Depression / Stock-Markets / Great Depression II
By: EWI
Greetings,
In every disaster, only a very few people prepare themselves beforehand. Think about investor enthusiasm in 2005-2007, and you'll realize it's true.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Stock Market Last Reversal Day... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jack_Steiman
The market was moving higher throughout the day with commodity stocks leading the way based on the dollar falling apart. It opened at 22.40 PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish (UUP) and got down to 22.26, which is exactly where the bottom of that bullish falling wedge is. A move below 22.25 and we'd have blastoff for this market.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Stocks vs. Bonds, 5-Decade Anomaly of Returns / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Adrian_Ash
Stocks now pay way less than bonds once again, but neither pay much...
BLINK and you missed it. US equities offered a greater yield on investment than did US Treasury bonds for less than five months...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Nasdaq At Potentional Key Turning Point for 2009 / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
By: INO
Of the three major indexes we track: DOW, NASDAQ and the S&P 500, only the NASDAQ is in thin air.
What do I mean by thin air? So far the NASDAQ is the only index to make it past the 50% Fibonacci retracement levels as measured from the highs seen in 2007 and the lows that were made in March of this year.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Stock Market Gap Up and Reversal...Mild Retreat... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jack_Steiman
Is it a sign of further down side action to come?
Based on technicals I'd say yes but if you're expecting a market free fall, you're in the wrong game. We gapped up today and clearly that gap was sold but whenever we got near 10,000 on the Dow, the bears got their usual cold feet. However, with many good earners from last night printing black candles, meaning more sellers than buyers once it opened for trading, it tells us a lot of the good news is in near-term on this market. I will remind you again, that does not mean the market gets crushed from here. A 5% pull back over some weeks is possible but no guarantee. If the pullback is tepid and on lighter volume with unwinding oscillators, you can expect another move back up once the selling ends.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Key Moving Averages Hold in Stock Market Down Session / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The indices moved lower today, but they did recover in the last half of the session to pare the losses.
The day started out with a gap up on Nasdaq, though the S&P 500 was flat , they then vacillated back and forth in the morning. After about an hour the indices rolled over hard, with the NDX dropping from 1764 to 1746, and the SPX from 1096 to 1086 at that point, a very sharp drop.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Copenhagen 2009 and the Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
We don’t know if the furor over climate, economic and sovereignty issues coming to a head over the impending December Copenhagen climate treaty is correct, incorrect, exaggerated or spot-on.