Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Saturday, November 13, 2010
Stock Market Negative Finish to Worst Week Since August / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices had a down day to end the week. They suffered sharp losses in the morning, although they did bounce back in the afternoon part of the session to take back a chunk of the losses, especially on the Nasdaq 100. But the S&P 500 didn't fare too well during the comeback and was only able to snapback 5 points, still ending down, just under 1200.
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Saturday, November 13, 2010
Contrary Opinion and the Fear Factor / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Submissions
Wink Twyman writes: Last week, I turned on CNBC in the early morning hours. Anchor Sue Herera was in a bubbly mood. She said that, after the market’s performance that week, one commentator said, “You ain’t seen nothing yet!” Because I am jaded on media coverage, I immediately took Herera’s cheerleading as a signal that the top was close at hand. It occurred to me that the average investor and trader might take Herera’s words to heart, rush out to Scottrade or Charles Schwab, and plunk down their hard-earned money on “black,” I mean, the stock of their choice because the market was now safe. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Stock Market Intermediate Term Decline Underway / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Steven_Vincent
I've been seeing technical divergences for weeks now and so far no real pullback has resulted. The major indices have now taken out the April highs and have been trading at those levels for about a week now. As a result there are now across the board technical divergences within the context of the rise off the August bottom as well as divergences between the April high and current prices.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Stock Market Selling Finally Here... A Look Ahead... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
It took long enough but the selling has finally kicked in for this market. It has done so in a pretty strong way, especially after today's move lower where the very heavy majority of stocks finished in the red. Finally some widespread selling across the board, which is something that has been missing for some time now as the bears tried unsuccessfully to take this market down. The selling isn't likely done for a while longer as any small bounce up early next week off of oversold 60-minute charts should be sold off again with the market likely testing down to those 50-day exponential moving averages before any further attempt is made to move higher once again. It's extremely normal for markets to test those 50-day exponential moving averages. What does matter is how the market reacts on those oscillators to the buying that will occur off those 50-day tests.
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Saturday, November 13, 2010
Stock Market Brief Profit Taking or New Wall of Worry? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Sy_Harding
Most of the bricks in the previous wall of worry have been removed.
Economic reports have continued to improve over recent weeks; in manufacturing, the service sector, retail sales, durable goods orders, and even in the employment picture, where 151,000 new jobs were created in October, more than double the 70,000 that economists expected.
Friday, November 12, 2010
G20 Summit, Yet Another Global Cluster F*ck / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
Why should we be surprised?
The last G20 meeting ended in chaos, the same nonsense that triggered a flight into commodities in Q3 as Global investors lost faith in ALL of the World leaders to be able to solve ANY of the many problems that face the Global Economy. Why should this time be different as the current conference broke up with NOTHING accomplished other than to promise to get right on these issues at next year's meeting. REALLY? Do we look like a planet that has another 6 months to wait for you to do something???
Friday, November 12, 2010
Stock Market Remains Vulnerable Short-Term / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Chris_Ciovacco
On November 9th, in the Dollar, Euro, Gold, Silver, and the VIX are Poised for Reversals, we outlined numerous concerns related to the elevated odds of short-to-intermediate term reversal of the “risk-on” trade. The elements remain in place for a market correction. However, the door remains open to higher highs in stocks. A high volume down day on Friday with declines of greater than 1% in the major averages would increase the odds of a one–to-three week pullback.
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Friday, November 12, 2010
Has the Stock Market Internet Index Peaked ? if so, What Now? / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
By: Garry_Abeshouse
I have chosen to highlight the Internet Index at this time, as it represents the business sector that dominates the hearts, minds and the deep wallets of Gen Y - those born during or after the 1980's. It is ironic that prior to the 1980's the stock market was dominated by companies making the necessities of life, while you might say that the stockmarket of today is dominated by companies dealing with services that we are told we cannot live without.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, November 12, 2010
Stock Market Strength, Optimism Continues Into Year-end / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Donald_W_Dony
Global stock markets have surged since the corrective low in early September. Many world equity indexes have pegged double digit returns in less than 10 weeks. The two most watched indexes, the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, have also kept pace with the global advance by leaping 15.4% and 12.5% respectively. Yet this positive performance has many investors worried. With conflicting economic data plus generally upbeat Q3 earnings, can the markets continue their climb?
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Friday, November 12, 2010
The Fed’s Got POMO Fever! / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
Ben’s got POMO Fever, Tim’s got POMO Fever
They’ve got POMO fever, what a scam
Ben’s gone buying crazy, Tim’s budget plan is hazy
Debasing Dollars baby, that’s the plan!
Thursday, November 11, 2010
U.S. Dollar, Gold & SP500 Index Trend Trading Forecasts / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Chris_Vermeulen
It has been a roller coaster week thus far as stocks and precious metals plunged on heavy selling volume on the back of a rising dollar, only to make a strong rebound Wednesday. While there has been significant intraday price movement, it was no surprise to us as we have been anticipating this pullback since discussing it in my Sunday Gold Newsletter.
Let’s take a quick look at the charts…
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Finally A Stock Market Catalyst?... Cisco Earnings..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
The one thing that has been missing for the bears in order to get this market moving lower is a catalyst. The up trend is so locked in place that it needs something to turn the tide in their favor. That has been a struggle for sure. The ISM Report was better than expected as was the Jobs Report last Friday. No catalyst. The market has tried to sell off from severe levels of overbought but has been unable to with any force. Tonight it has a catalyst. Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) reported earnings.
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Gold Problem? Stock Market Internals are Terrible / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Anthony_J_Stills
Yesterday we saw some commotion and upheaval in a number of markets including gold and silver, the US dollar, the bonds, commodities and even stocks to a lesser degree. The turmoil in the gold and silver pits was attributed to the fact that they raised the margin required for silver futures contracts.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Monster Reversal In Stocks, Commodities, and the US Dollar in the Works? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Mac_Slavo
The last couple of weeks have been quite eventful for economists and world leaders. First, Ben Bernanke announced the much anticipated next phase of US strategy to get the economy back on its feet, even though the recession has been over for many months and recovery is purported to be in full swing. The Bernanke Plan, to no one’s surprise, entails more monetization of US debt and further injections of liquidity into the system. To the chagrin of Nobel Prize winning economists like Paul Krugman, the announced $600 billion just isn’t going to be enough.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
U.S. Dollar, Euro, Gold, Silver, and VIX Poised For Trend Reversals / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Chris_Ciovacco
Numerous factors and markets are telling us the odds of short-to-intermediate-term reversals are elevated for numerous markets including silver (SLV), gold (GLD), the U.S. dollar (UUP), the euro (FXE), stocks (SPY), and the VIX (VXX). The objective of both fundamental and technical analysis of the financial markets is to help us better understand the risk-reward ratio and relative attractiveness of a wide variety of investments. Since no chart or annual report can help us predict the future, our study of markets deals in probable outcomes.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Stock Market 90-Day Cycle Looking for a Correction / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jim_Curry
In a prior article, I made note of the fact that the larger uptrend was firmly established into the Spring of 2011 (or beyond), with the four-year cycle looking to peak at some point between April and July of next year. In-between, for the shorter-term I mentioned that there was a 90-day (18-20 week) cycle that was due to peak sometime around mid-November (plus or minus). In terms of price, a test or push above the April high of 1219.80 SPX CASH was favored to materialize on or before this cycle turned south, which is obviously what we have seen with the recent action.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Investing in Latin America, the Importance of Politics / Stock-Markets / Emerging Markets
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
Brazil's election win by the Workers Party candidate Dilma Rousseff has cast a dark shadow over the investment prospects of that long-fashionable "BRIC" economy.
And it has underscored an important lesson for investors: In Latin America, the political climate is really the No. 1 factor in determining where to invest for the long run.
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Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Should One Invest Now Invest in the U.S. or China’s Stock Market? / Stock-Markets / Chinese Stock Market
By: Lorimer_Wilson
Nu Yu writes: Where should one invest these days for the greatest projected returns? I do weekly analyses of both the American and Chinese stock markets and have identified specific developments that point the way short- and mid-term and suggest a future scenario for one of them. Let me explain:
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Stock Market Remains Firm At Overbought But Slowly Unwinding Levels / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
What can I say about this market. It is resilient beyond words. And it is somewhat surprising when you consider just how overbought we are on those daily charts. We started off with selling today, and it looked like things could finally be coming together with respects to more sustained selling. The Dow was closing in on 100 points, which is nothing really, but at least a start. That didn't last long though. The market started to slowly, but surely, come back from the early deeper selling. No great move higher, but enough to take away the edge from the bears. The bears have to be wondering what will it take to get this puppy moving lower. I wonder as well.
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Monday, November 08, 2010
Is the Stock Market Pullback Already Finished? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Mike_Paulenoff
All of the action off of Friday's high at 1224.50 in the emini S&P 500 exhibits corrective form, which "warns" us that when it is complete another upleg should be forthcoming that thrusts the e-SPZ to new highs projected into the 1232-1240 target zone.
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