Sunday, February 04, 2018
Where Have All The Stock Market Investors Gone? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: WMA
Given that most trading in capital markets today is momentum-based buying and selling, where much of the trading is a reaction to news and directed to ETFs that are being manipulated by computer algorithms, it’s a legitimate question to ask where have all the investors gone?
Is most everybody today just a buyer or a seller of prices? If so, the marketplace has gotten off track. Are people fed up with market intervention, are they too indifferent to market risk until they panic or are they simply not able or not caring to understand the assets they are buying?
Sunday, February 04, 2018
Dow Falls 666 Points As Cryptocurrencies Crash And Krugman Emerges From His Van / Currencies / BlockChain
By: Jeff_Berwick
On Friday, the Dow Jones fell 665.75 points. Or, if you round it, 666 points. Also known to many as the “mark of the beast”. It was also the sixth worst point drop in US stock market history.
This also happened on the 33rd day of the year. 33 is the most important number in Freemasonry.
This is noteworthy because it is the first serious drop in the US stock markets on a weekly basis in two years.
But are the numbers 666 and 33 just a coincidence?
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Sunday, February 04, 2018
Removing Fuel from a Stock Market Rally on Fire / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Doug_Wakefield
Friday, January 26, 2018; the Dow sets a record, adding almost 2,000 points in the first 4 weeks of the year.
Forget rising rates. Ignore what is taking place in Washington. Central Banks? Who are they? Wealth from the “perfect bull” only comes in two speeds, slow and fast.
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Sunday, February 04, 2018
10yr Yield Nears Target, ‘Inflation Trade’ Failing, Gold Sector Shaking Off Inflation Bugs / Interest-Rates / US Bonds
By: Gary_Tanashian
Over and over again I’ve been making goofy headlines about the Amigos, the 3 macro riders who will reach (or abort) their respective destinations, at which point the macro is subject to change. The latest update was yesterday with a daily chart view.
Just look at them, the SPX vs. Gold Amigo, the 10yr & 30yr Yield Amigo and the Yield Curve Amigo. So happy-go-lucky while they ride. But #2, the one in the middle, looks like he’s bracing for something.
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Saturday, February 03, 2018
Here Come Bigger Paychecks! / Politics / Government Spending
By: Rodney_Johnson
So far in 2018, New England froze over and the government shut down. And it’s only January!But just like with Christmas, there are some things that never happen fast enough. One of them is any change that gives workers bigger paychecks. With February just around the corner, that change is coming fast!
The IRS has published the new withholding tables reflecting the recent tax reform. By the pay period ending February 15, employers should have built these rules into their payroll calculations.
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Saturday, February 03, 2018
What’s Behind the Rising Gold and Treasury Bond Yields / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: Harry_Dent
Three trends I’ve been forecasting have been happening in the last year:
- The strong Trump rally.
- Rising 10-year Treasury bond yields.
- And rising gold prices.
They’re all related to late stage inflation and the expected tax cuts, which have materialized.
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Saturday, February 03, 2018
Stocks Plunge. Volatility Spikes. Fear Returns / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: EWI
Urgent Message Two Must See NASDAQ Charts
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Saturday, February 03, 2018
Have Stock Investors Gone Insane? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
This has the appearance of a Wave (iii) of a Leading Diagonal Wave [i]. Thus far it has not succeeded in making its Head & Shoulders target, but it may not be complete. This may be where the wheels fall off, so I am hesitant to put a label on the structure yet. It doesn’t look very good, does it?
ZeroHedge advises, “With positioning at extremes, and leverage at extremes, and valuations at extremes, Deutsche Bank's Binky Chadha raises the red flag as the correlation across asset-classes soars to record highs signaling extreme contagion risk.
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Saturday, February 03, 2018
Stock Market Plunge Protection Team Spotted Atop Mount Everest! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Barry_M_Ferguson
Many market observers would agree that the current stock market is either in a bubble or at least richly valued by historical standards. Not that it matters. The Dow’s ascent looks like Mount Everest complete with a lack of oxygen at the top. All that has mattered when it comes to stocks for thirty years now is the Federal Reserve and their ‘Plunge Protection Team (PPT)’ activities.
When stocks needed a boost, they were there to buy market indices back up when no one else would dare. Since the election of President Donald Trump, market indices have been moving straight up. The PPT has not been needed. There have been no sell-offs. That is, until the very end of January, 2018. Even then, the Dow dipped just a couple of percentage points.
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Saturday, February 03, 2018
Letting a Land Rover Discovery Sport Fuel Tank Run to 0% Empty / Personal_Finance / Motoring
By: N_Walayat
Given the poor fuel economy of Land Rover Discovery Sport's i.e. owners will be lucky to achieve 30MPG let alone anywhere near Land Rover's sales pitch of 53.3MPG. Add to that the small 50 litre usable fuel tank then Discovery Sport drivers will often see themselves running low on fuel, but what happens when you let your fuel gauge run to zero, 0% Empty, and just how reliable is the fuel gauge for I am sure Disco Sport drivers are soon aware that the fuel gauge tends to vary in its reading. We'll we put a Disco Sport to the test in this video to find out just how reliable the fuel gauge is and what happens at EMPTY.
Friday, February 02, 2018
Radical Gold Under Investment / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2018
By: Zeal_LLC
Global investors are radically underinvested in gold today. Years of relentless stock-market rallying to endless new record highs have left this classic alternative investment deeply out of favor. But this gold-demand ebb is ending. The same central banks that fueled these extreme stock markets through epic easing are reversing to massive and unprecedented tightening. As stocks roll over, gold investment will return.
Gold is a unique asset class established over millennia that should play a critical role in every investment portfolio. Unlike virtually everything else, gold generally rallies when stock markets inevitably suffer their periodic major selloffs. That effectively makes gold the anti-stock trade. A substantial gold allocation is essential and necessary to diversify and protect stock-heavy portfolios, moderating their overall volatility.
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Friday, February 02, 2018
The Stock Market Lugnuts are Loose! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX has crossed the neckline and round number support at 2800.00. While Kolanovic and the Risk Parity algos ignored the initial decline, they will have a harder time of it today. The real question is, how far will it go today? Panic may set in if not already, as the Head & Shoulders target appears to be an easy mark.
ZeroHedge reports, “Last Friday, when the S&P hit an all time high and inexplicably melted up in the last hour of trading in a burst of frenzied buying, we warned that according to Bank of America, "Biggest Sell Signal In 5 Years Was Just Triggered." Incidentally, on that very day, the S&P 500 bull market became the second largest of all time last Friday, as the global equity market cap of $86.6TN rose $57.9TN from 2009 lows and $29.9TN from 2016 lows, according to BofA.
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Friday, February 02, 2018
How to Trade the Stocks, Gold, Oil and Dollar Markets Next Week - Video / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018
By: Chris_Vermeulen
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Friday, February 02, 2018
Unbearable Fall of Bitcoin / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Mike_McAra
There rarely is a more interesting time to be observing the Bitcoin market than what we see now. In an article on CNBC, we read:
Digital currency bitcoin fell Tuesday as the 20 largest digital currencies by market capitalization all declined, according to CoinMarketCap.
Bitcoin traded 12 percent lower near $9,817 as of 1:19 p.m. ET, according to CoinDesk's bitcoin price index, which tracks prices from digital currency exchanges Bitstamp, Coinbase, itBit and Bitfinex.
Friday, February 02, 2018
Gold Price February Correction to Below $1300 - Video / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The gold price had a good start for 2018, rising from 1310 at the start of January to a high of $1367 with the most recent trading price of $1351. Which is set against my forecast for 2018 for the gold price to first target resistance $1375, an eventual break of which would propel the Gold price towards a 2018 target of $1500, and then further for the Gold price to ultimately target a trend towards $1800.
Friday, February 02, 2018
Can The Shale Oil Boom Avoid These Bottlenecks? / Commodities / Shale Oil and Gas
By: OilPrice_Com
Shale companies continue to drill at a frenzied pace, adding rigs and breaking U.S. oil production levels with each passing week. Yet, the oil production is becoming increasingly geographically concentrated. Not only is the Permian basin accounting for much of the new oil production in the U.S., but a relatively small number of counties within the Permian are home to most of that action.
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Friday, February 02, 2018
Gold Stocks GDX Consolidation May Continue / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2018
By: Avi_Gilburt
While I would love to suggest that the market is ready to break out in a big way, I still have no clear indications that is the case just yet. And, this comes more so from the GDX than either of the metals themselves. So, I am going to focus on the GDX in this update.
The action over the last two days has been a lot more convoluted than one would think by simply looking at the chart. In fact, since we hit the lows yesterday, the action actually presents 4 different ways to potentially be counted from an Elliott Wave structure, with us even completing all of the (b) wave with one more minor high in the GDX tomorrow.
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Friday, February 02, 2018
Urgent Message Two Must See NASDAQ Charts / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
By: EWI
This short video shows you everything you need to know about the position of the stock market today. It's a must-see message for anyone investing in stocks today.
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Friday, February 02, 2018
This is Crazy! Stock Market Investors Have Simply Gone Nuts! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX took out yesterday’s low at 2813.04. This may be the beginning of the slide suggested by the Head & Shoulders formation. Confirmation comes at the neckline at 2805.00. There is still a chance of a pop to the upper reaches of the right shoulder, but that probability seems to be fading fast.
Many are ignoring this decline as being “too insignificant.” Vic Kolanovic at JPM is one of them. It appears that a larger decline will be needed to wake these fellas up.
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Friday, February 02, 2018
Gold And Gold Miners Preparing for Big Move / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2018
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Just a few days ago we alerted our members and followers to a massive setup in the Palladium market that had not been seen in years. This chart formation provides an incredible opportunity for a trader to take advantage of and profit from the expected price decline. We alerted our members and followers on January 24th of this move.
As of today, Palladium has rotated downward by over 9% from the recent highs and should continue to move lower as this multi-month rotation extends. Even though this initial move lower (-9%) reaches our initial predicted target levels, we still believe support won’t be found till prices reach near the $1000 price level. If that support fails to hold, the price of Palladium could fall to the $900. This total move could be over -20% by the time this downward swing ends.
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