Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Friday, April 27, 2018
Hold Dividend Payers To Weather Stock Market Volatility / Stock-Markets / Dividends
By: WMA
So far in 2018, equities have swung wildly, leaving market participants with whiplash. Consider that the S&P 500 rose +7.5% in January, fell -11.5% in early February, jumped back +10.5% in March, fell back -8.2% at the end of March, rallied +5.4% in early April only to give back -3.7% since last week. Phew! Investors who have relied on the “trend is your friend” investment strategy have gotten absolutely crushed so far this year. Those who have made money in 2018 are the algorithmic and high-frequency traders, as well as the courageous (and lucky) day traders willing to stand in front of apparent run-away moves.
For most of us, trying to “trade” a volatile market, guessing which way a squiggly line will turn, is most often a losing proposition. Instead of buying rallies on optimism and selling after the market drops on fear -- a game that won’t last long no matter what the size of your portfolio – a much better strategy for most investors in a volatile market is patience. Hold high quality companies which pay a regular dividend (preferably with a high dividend yield), don’t fret about market swings, and patiently collect your dividend payments.
Friday, April 27, 2018
NASDAQ NDX Was Amazon'd / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX futures are bouncing along just under yesterday’s closing price. The structure of the decline (circled) is fractally similar to the initial decline from the 2801.90 peak. Wave [a] of 1 of (3) is approximately double the size of Wave [a] of 1 of (1). Should it maintain a similar dimension, Wave [c] should break the lower trendline of the Broadening Wedge. Remember, fractals are self-similar and repetitive. The Elliott rule of alternation offers enough variation within each structure to appear different from the last.
Friday, April 27, 2018
Stock Market Waterfall Decline Ahead - Video / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Crash
By: David_Morgan
David Morgan says the U.S. stock market is in a downtrend. A waterfall decline is possible.
Gold and silver are still in consolidation. However, the gold/silver ratio is coming down. And both metals continue to make higher lows. Morgan expects a move to the upside.
Is silver in a deficit? This depends on your definition of “deficit.” The truth is, the above ground inventory of silver is growing.
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Friday, April 27, 2018
How to Trade Stock Indexes with Fibonacci / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Chris_Vermeulen
One very important component of the continued research we, www.TheTechnicalTraders.com, conduct into price, price patterns and price rotation is the study and application of Fibonacci price modeling. As you have seen with some of our other charting and modeling tools, we have invested a great deal of time and energy to create useful price modeling tools to assist us in our daily research and analysis.
Our Fibonacci price modeling tool is another adaptive learning model that is capable of adapting to price rotation by learning from past and current price variances as well as repeated price pattern formations. This tool is a one of a kind type of project that we covet with a great deal of respect.
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Thursday, April 26, 2018
The Inflation-Driven Stocks Rally To All Time Highs Has Begun / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Graham_Summers
As I predicted three weeks ago, stocks have begun their move to new all-time highs.
The reason?
Inflation. Stocks LOVE inflation at first. But that relationship quickly goes sour once inflation results in rising operational costs that eat into profits.
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Thursday, April 26, 2018
US Dollar Soaring With Gold Eagles, What Does it Mean? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018
By: Chris_Vermeulen
- Natural gas making a quick, unexpected setup and move.
- Equities finally show fear and panic today for a pivot low to be in place.
- The dollar continues to climb while all other currencies fall.
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Market Minute: Bond Yields and Bank Stocks / Stock-Markets / Banking Stocks
By: Donald_W_Dony
Interest rates are starting to rise. What industry group likes that? The banks.
Interest rates are set by the FOMC and reflect a number of factors.
They are a tool to control inflation and maintain healthy economic growth.
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Thursday, April 26, 2018
Have You Not Yet Learned - Just Buy The Dip! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Avi_Gilburt
One of the main benefits of understanding Elliott Wave analysis is that it places the market into a larger degree objective context from which you can make your major decisions about your investments.
While most analysis is either strongly bullish or strongly bearish for years on end (as I am sure many of you read perma-bears and perma-bulls alike), markets do not work like that. They are not always moving up or always moving down. While the last 5 years have certainly seen some tremendous market gains, there were clear periods of time which chopped traders up before the market continued higher.
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Thursday, April 26, 2018
What to Expect at a Critical Stock Market Point: End of a Wave 2 Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: EWI
"Most investors are convinced that the bull market never went away."
The great game of Wall Street -- where huge amounts of money are at stake every trading day.
Many speculators play this game by watching for events outside of the stock market that they believe will "trigger" the next big move in prices.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Is a Stock Market Crash Imminent or Does this Stock Market Bull Still Have Legs / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Sol_Palha
Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For a long time, we have been stating sharp pull-backs should be viewed through a bullish lens. In this article published in Nov 2017, we stated the following;
View strong corrections through a bullish lens. This game plan will remain valid until the masses turn bullish or the trend turns negative. The stronger the deviation, the better the opportunity. Tactical Investor
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Stock Market Study Shows Why You Shouldn’t “Sell in May and Go Away” / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Troy_Bombardia
You’ve probably heard of the saying “sell in May and go away”. This piece of conventional trading “wisdom” states that the stock market is seasonally weak from May to September while it’s seasonally stronger from October to April. Hence you should not own stocks from May to September. From a seasonality perspective, that is only partially true.
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Chaos Capitalists Short Countries - How Chanos Got China Wrong / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018
By: Dan_Steinbock
Since the 1980s, a new generation of chaos capitalists have been undermining the progress of emerging economies. Under the pretext of “efficient markets,” they seek to exploit real or perceived weaknesses.
Recently, hedge funder Jim Chanos appeared on CNNMoney’s Markets Now program that was promoted heavily on the CNN: “Chanos got China right.”
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Transportation Stocks Are Not Moving and What It Means / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Pay attention to the price movement of the transportation sector for a clearer picture of the future rally
If you have been reading and following are posts this year then you’ve seen the power of our Advanced Dynamic Learning price modeling system and how well we are able to find key market moves. On Monday, the markets stalled, providing further evidence of the future breakout move. The Banking Index was up 0.43%. The $INDU was off by 0.06% while the ES, NQ and YM were mixed. The Transportation Index was up 0.40% while the US Dollar is about to break above the $91.00 level on an attempt to move higher. These moves are telling us that the US economy is about to break higher in an attempt to retest recent highs – just as our ADL predictive price modeling system has been warning.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Stock Market "Oops, They Did It Again" / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: EWI
See "a classic capitulation to a rising trend"
History often repeats. So, one way to make an educated guess about the future is to look at the past.
With that in mind, let me share with you a valuable observation from our market analysts: Overseas investors tend to jump into U.S. stocks near tops, and sell heavily near bottoms. In other words, their market actions usually are a contrarian indicator.
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Monday, April 23, 2018
Stocks and Bonds, This is Not a Market / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Raul_I_Meijer
“[Price discovery] is the process of determining the price of an asset in the marketplace through the interactions of buyers and sellers”, says Wikipedia. Perhaps not a perfect definition, but it’ll do. They add: “The futures and options market serve all important functions of price discovery.”
What follows from this is that markets need price discovery as much as price discovery needs markets. They are two sides of the same coin. Markets are the mechanism that makes price discovery possible, and vice versa. Functioning markets, that is.
Given the interdependence between the two, we must conclude that when there is no price discovery, there are no functioning markets. And a market that doesn’t function is not a market at all. Also, if you don’t have functioning markets, you have no investors. Who’s going to spend money purchasing things they can’t determine the value of? (I know: oh, wait..)
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Monday, April 23, 2018
Stock Market Correction Turns Consolidation / 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 – The intermediate correction from 2873 should now continue until May.
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.
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Sunday, April 22, 2018
Stock Market Predictive Modeling Is Calling For A Continued Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Chris_Vermeulen
We are constantly amazed that our Advanced Dynamic Learning (ADL) price modeling system has been incredibly accurate over the past 7+ months. Our researchers, at www.TheTechnicalTraders.com, called the early 2018 rally weeks in advance. We called the resistance levels and top in late January. We called a February 21~27 market top formation, called the market bottom on March 28, and last week called the market top to the hour and locked in 17.7% trading a simple 3x index ETF. Today, we are going to further illustrate the power and capabilities of the ADL price modeling system and what we are expecting over the next 7~10+ trading days.
Saturday, April 21, 2018
How Long Does it take for a 10%+ Stock Market Correction to Make New Highs / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Troy_Bombardia
The S&P has fallen 11.8% already during this “small correction”. Assuming that the bottom is in already (February 9, 2018 = the bottom), the S&P has rallied for 48 days already. Is this normal? How long does it usually take for a 10%+ “small correction” to reclaim its old highs?
Here are the bottom dates for 10%+ “small corrections”
- June 4, 2012
- August 16, 2007
- February 28, 2000
- October 18, 1999
- October 28, 1997
- April 14, 1997
- July 16, 1996
- January 30, 1990
- September 29, 1986
- February 13, 1968
- June 29, 1965
- October 11, 1955
Here’s how many days it took for the S&P 500 to make a new high.
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Friday, April 20, 2018
Stock Market May "Let Go" / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Good Morning!
SPX futures slid down to the daytime low of 2682.75 in late night trading, then ramped up to trendline resistance at 2698.25 before coming back to the flat line as I write. It appears to be range-bound for the moment, until Index Options (institutional-style) expire at 9:20-9:30 am. Retail options expire at the end of the day.
SPX had Waves 1 and 2 yesterday. Wave 3 may be significantly larger than the 35.59 point decline we saw yesterday. There is a good probability that the retail options investors may be “thrown under the bus.”
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Friday, April 20, 2018
Overwhelming Evidence Against Near Stock Market Grand Supercycle Top / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Science_Investing
Grand Supercycle in US Equities
The US stock market shows price data all the way back to 1790. It can be fitted into long term cycles, which result into Elliott waves. The popular opinion is that we are approaching the top of a Grand Supercycle trend. It implies that a long and deep correction is ahead of us. Our conclusion is very different to that and we base it on Elliott’s rules and guidelines.