Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Monday, January 29, 2018

Don’t Fight the Fed! Or the Rest of the World’s Central Banks / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018

By: Michael_Pento

On March 9, 2009, The Wall Street Journal’s Money and Investing section posed this ominous question: "How low can stocks go?" The stench of economic malaise was suffocating as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) rounded off its fourth straight week of losses, and the S&P 500 touched below 700 for the first time in 13 years. Goldman Sachs cautioned the S&P could fall to 400, while CNBC’s Jim Cramer was busily calculating the stock valuations of the DJIA components based on balance sheet cash levels. 

Monday, January 29, 2018

Stocks are Down, VIX is Higher, But No Signal This Morning / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

Good Morning!

TNX futures are higher this morning as to blows out prior resistance levels into a clear Wave (5) rally that is still in its early stages. It is approaching its Weekly Cycle Top resistance at 27.80, but is likely to blow through it. The Head I Shoulders pattern usually indicates the terminus of Wave 3. The Monthly Cycle Top is near 35.00 and may be the ultimate target of this final Primary Wave [1] off its all-time low.

ZeroHedge reports, “The recent frantic moves in Treasurys and the dollar continued on Monday as we enter what is set to be a juggernaut of a "rollercoaster week", and while the dollar collapse seems to have slowed for now, this is as a result of an acceleration in the Treasury selloff, with 10Y yields blowing out to 2.72% for the first time since early 2014, and now deep into what Jeff Gundlach called the "danger zone" for equities.”

Monday, January 29, 2018

More New Record Highs, But Stocks Bull Market May Die On That Euphoria / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: Paul_Rejczak

The U.S. stock market indexes gained between 0.9% and 1.3% on Friday, extending their uptrend despite worse-than-expected advance GDP number release, as investors' sentiment remained very bullish.

The S&P 500 index has reached new record high at the level of 2,872.87. It broke above its Wednesday's high of 2,852.97. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has also reached new record high at the level of 26,616.71. It was relatively weaker than the broad stock market, as it gained 0.9%. The technology Nasdaq Composite reached new record high of 7,505.77, as it gained 1.3% on Friday.

Monday, January 29, 2018

Analysis and Market Setups - Stocks Rising, GDP Rising but things Not Straightforward / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018

By: Abalgorithm

US GDP rose at a 2.6% annual rate in the fourth quarter. Output grew 2.5% in 2017 as a whole, the most in three years, and the Federal Reserve predicts 2.5% growth again in 2018. Business executives have reported solid quarterly earnings in recent weeks and pointed optimistically to investment and hiring plans for 2018, supported in part by federal tax cuts. Stock prices keep churning higher. And on Friday the Commerce Department reported that U.S. economic output remained on an above-trend path in the final three months of last year.

Monday, January 29, 2018

Stock Market Still Strong! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: Andre_Gratian

Current Position of the Market

SPX: Long-term trend – The bull market is continuing with a top expected in the low 3000s.
 
 Intermediate trend –  A new surge  of buying has moved ahead the forecast for an intermediate term top.

Analysis of the short-term trend is done on a daily basis with the help of hourly charts.  It is an important adjunct to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which discusses the course of longer market trends. 

Sunday, January 28, 2018

Stock Market Once in a Lifetime Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: Rambus_Chartology

“With the rally continuing to power higher in the stock markets I’m going to update the portfolio combo charts so you can see how this once is a lifetime rally in unfolding. When this impulse move finally burns itself out we will get a decent sized correction that may take a year or two build out. Until then the hardest thing for most investors riding this bull is to hang on for dear life.

For over six months or longer we’ve heard the never ending story about how overbought this market is, but the stock market doesn’t care what we think. The investors that have missed this rally are crying the loudest that the stock market has to crash because they’re not in it, if they were they would be enjoying the ride of a lifetime. At any rate the correction is going to come at some point and I can guarantee you that we won’t hit the absolute top tick. We have some price objectives that hopefully will get us out in time to enjoy our profits.

Sunday, January 28, 2018

Stocks and Commodities Reached Significant Resistance Levels, May Signal End of the Rally / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

VIX performed an inside consolidation, closing above Long-term support at 10.83 and on a buy signal.  The calm may be broken.  A breakout above the Ending Diagonal trendline suggests a complete retracement of the decline from January 2016, and possibly to August 2015. 

(Bloomberg)  Just as the rapper Curtis Jackson III captures attention for realizing he’s made millions on Bitcoin, the buyer of volatility options that shares his moniker is a window shopper in VIX options no longer.

Trading patterns associated with the trader dubbed “50 Cent” resurfaced on Friday as 50,000 March VIX calls with a strike price of 24 were purchased for 49 cents a pop.

Sunday, January 28, 2018

US Stock Markets Living In A Bubble / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: WMA

Signs that U.S. equities are in a bubble continue to proliferate. Although a bubble can only be confirmed in retrospect, prudent investors need to adjust their investment approach for this eventuality.  

It is said that the earlier you buy in a bubble, the better off you’ll be when the bubble bursts. Or, an investor could simply just avoid buying the assets in a bubble all together. The latter option makes more sense to us today. This implies not doing buy & hold investments in the popular indexes (Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq-100) heavily weighted in assets that are among the most crowded trades on the planet: Boeing, Caterpillar, 3M, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, etc.  As investors, all of our strategy portfolios are oriented towards relatively attractive foreign companies and resources stocks.  For traders (or investors who can’t stand watching the equity markets advance without them), beware of sharp pull-backs. A bubble market does not back-up to give outsiders a nice opportunity to get onboard. Getting a -3% dip on the S&P 500 at this stage probably has more chance of being the beginning of a downdraft rather than a buy-the-dip opportunity. 

Sunday, January 28, 2018

Share Market That Constantly Drives The Economy Forward With Very Important Forces Of Financial Development / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: Kavinesh_A

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Friday, January 26, 2018

Davos – My Personal Experience of the $100,000 Event, $60 Burgers, Massive Inequality and Blockchain Revolution / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018

By: GoldCore

– Davos elite hear warnings of complacency akin to 2007 as economic risks grow
– Toxic mix of infallible belief, arrogance, megalomania and economic ignorance
– Some express concern economies are vulnerable due to imbalances, trade, geo-political tensions
– Soros: Trump creating ‘mafia state’ & ‘set on a course towards nuclear war’ with N Korea
– Bond bear market, rising interest rates and massive $233 trillion debt are some of the many threats to global stability
– Davos theme explores massive inequality across the globe while eating $60 hamburgers
– Thousand private jets fly as some attendees lecture poor and middle classes about their fossil fuel consumption
– Blockchain has potential to revolutionise the world of money and foster equality – if not co-opted by elites 
– Better spending $100,000 on physical gold stored in vault in Switzerland then $100k to attend Davos

By Jan Skoyles. Editor Mark O’Byrne

Friday, January 26, 2018

Sell the Stock Market Rally! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

Good Morning!

SPX futures are higher, but no new records. Today is day 253 of the Master Cycle that began at the May 18, 2017 low. As mentioned, we may call this an inverted Master Cycle because of its uninterrupted rally since then. An inverted Master Cycle may also mean the end of a trend, since it sows the seeds of its own destruction. While the uptrend hasn’t yet been broken, the range of the consolidation is becoming narrower and may lead to a breakout or breakdown.

Friday, January 26, 2018

2018: Yearly Forecasts for Systemic Breakdown / Stock-Markets / Financial Crisis 2018

By: Jim_Willie_CB

The following Jackass forecasts listed within the article for this new year are fully consistent with the Hat Trick Letter analysis over the last few years. All are on the verge of occurrence. If even one quarter of these calls comes into reality, the world will become a better place. In the current year upon us, the following events will begin to take form in some path with recognized progress. The result will be truly frightening, as all known tenets are either swept aside or profoundly questioned. Many of the listed events have begun to take form with some initial progress. The magnificent event that occurred ten years ago has been called the Global Financial Crisis, centered and triggered by the Lehman Brothers failure as a firm. It was actually a suffocation event with killjob, whereby both Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan bought several $billion in Lehman mortgage bonds and never paid for them, thereby killing Lehman from a very severe sudden liquidity drain. What happened in 2007 (initial bust symptoms) and 2008 (final crisis unfolding) was horrible and quite devastating. What comes in 2018 in the systemic breakdown and global crisis will be triple in magnitude of damage and triple in breadth with range of extended wreckage. This year will see sovereign bonds enter failure, in an unprecedented manner.

Friday, January 26, 2018

Here Is A Trusted Brokerage Business / Stock-Markets / Investing 2018

By: Kavinesh_A

Beginners should have the involvement to practice various trading strategies and also understand about trading policies. They can either take up a course or use books to learn. Practicing the strategies using a demo account gives better support. A number of online websites provide guidance to beginners in getting used to the market. Starting up with a reliable broker gives great advantages and people gain confidence to move ahead in the market. With demo accounts, traders can invest virtual money and see what happens and then get trained.  Choosing the right brokerage firm is currently one of the most important risk factors.

Friday, January 26, 2018

Key Trends for Trading Markets 2018: This Will be a “Gold”en year / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018

By: Submissions

Abalgorithm: Inflation around the world is starting to pick up. Only a matter of time before policy makers will start to get nervous. All the bond market money is about to pour into commodities and stocks. Gold is pushing the envelope. Charts below.

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Stock Market Trendlines Being Broken / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

It appears that the Ending Diagonal trendline may be broken in the SPX at 2830.00. This is your initial aggressive sell signal. The VIX is on an aggressive sell and Hi-Lo is not. Use your discretion and do a partial short until we get confirmation with the VIX over 12.81 and the Hi-Lo beneath the trendline.

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Bitcoin, Oil, Gold, and SPX Price Prediction Next 5 Days / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018

By: Chris_Vermeulen

Our articles, Technical Trading Mastery book, and 3 Hour Trading Video Course are designed for both traders and investors to explore the tools and techniques that discretionary and algorithmic traders need to profit in today’s competitive markets. Created with the serious trader and investor in mind – whether beginner or professional – our approach will put you on the path to win. Understanding market structure, trend identification, cycle analysis, volatility, volume, when and when to trade, position management, and how to put it all together so that you have a winning edge.

Thursday, January 25, 2018

USD Nearing its Target / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

Good Morning!

USD futures are still trending lower, although some are calling for a bottom here. The morning low at 88.62 came awfully close to the Orthodox Broadening Top target that I have highlighted for nearly a year.

One wouldn’t be blamed for taking short profits here. However, even as the risk of a reversal rises, the Cycles Model suggests that it still has a week, if not more, of decline ahead. In addition, Wave (5) reaches 1.5 X Wave (1) at 88.16 and 1.618 X at 87.60.

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Debt, Dollar and Stocks - A Modest Plan / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: Raul_I_Meijer

This is an article written by Dr. D, who last month wrote a series at the Automatic Earth entitled Bitcoin Doesn’t Exist.

It shouldn’t surprise you that bitcoin plays a cameo in his Modest -but actually quite grand- Plan as well.

Dr. D: With all the talk about the bubble market, people are once again saying Donald Trump is a fool, he should never have taken credit for a Dow that’s about to collapse. In addition, how does he think he can get away with claiming we have a great economy made greater? He said in the election the economy was terrible and the Dow was a bubble, that’s why he won.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Stock Market Surge Continues... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

Good Morning!

This is just a refresher of the long-term (monthly) chart of the SPX. Wave [3] is 1.5 times Wave [1] and the next level is where Wave [5] is also 1.5 times Wave [1]. The red target was first mentioned by Northman Trader in ZeroHedge two weeks ago. We are a week away from the next lunar eclipse, which is being highlighted by several Cycles Theorists. They are expecting a super blue-blood moon that has not been seen since 1866.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

4 Key Markets At Levels Not Seen In 3 Years / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018

By: Chris_Vermeulen

Chris Vermeulen, Founder of TheTechnicalTraders.com joins met today to look at the markets that are breaking out in early 2018. The USD, oil, copper, and treasuries are all at levels not seen since 2014. Plus as Chris notes the precious metals are also very close to breaking out which could be the final push to make traders move into the commodities sector even more.