Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Fed Hammers Home A Message....Rates Will Not Rise....Nas/Froth Nasty.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014

By: Jack_Steiman

Hammer time. Ugly, ugly candlestick on the Nasdaq today off the highs. It tried to back test the broken 50-day exponential moving average, but couldn't make it stick. Sellers came in hard at that point. A back test and true failure, but for now you can't be bearish, because the S&P 500 and Dow remain bullish on price for reasons that are hard to explain.

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Stock Market Negative Close to a Volatile Week / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014

By: PhilStockWorld

Friday morning was loaded with economic news. We learned that Personal Income and Spending were both up 0.3% in February, although my preferred spending metric, Real Disposable Income Per Capita, has essentially been flat for the past seven months. The Core PCE Price index shows inflation at about half what the Fed wants. The March Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index at 80.0 was down from February’s 81.6.

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Why Mutual Fund Managers Cannot Protect Investors In Stocks Bear Markets / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Sy_Harding

Over my 27 years in the business, I often discuss bull and bear markets with investors. A couple of popular beliefs frequently surprise me.

The first is that bear markets are rare events. Investors are still surprised, some even shocked, that two bear markets, 2000-2003 and 2007-2009, took place within a nine-year period. Yet there have been 25 bear markets over the last 113 years, or one on average of every 4.5 years.

Friday, March 28, 2014

Friday Fake Stock Market Rally – Wnat Are People So Happy About? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014

By: PhilStockWorld

As I walk on through this wicked world,
Searching for light in the darkness of insanity,
I ask myself, Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain, and hatred, and misery? – Elvis and Lowe

Once again the Futures are up in the morning and once again we have to wonder why?

Friday, March 28, 2014

Stocks and Gold Simply Cannot Get it Up! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

SPX made a sideways consolidation and closed beneath the Head & Shoulders neckline today. It may pop briefly above it in the morning, but this is a good sign that the decline is gathering momentum to the downside.

Friday, March 28, 2014

The Next Global Financial Crisis / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2014

By: Clif_Droke

Investors dodged another bullet recently as geopolitical instability temporarily subsided after Russia's annexation of Crimea. Although U.S. equities have experienced an internal correction since then, most of the damage has been relegated to over-extended tech stocks that were in need of a pullback.

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Covered Calls / Stock-Markets / Options & Warrants

By: Don_Miller

The strategy I’m writing about today is one of my favorite, guaranteed moneymakers. These are trades we can all easily make, requiring no capital outlay and guaranteed to make a profit or you don’t make them. What’s the catch? We might occasionally find ourselves lamenting how much more money we might have made.

Experienced investors have likely figured out that I’m talking about a stock option called a “covered call.” Buying options is for speculators, and that’s not what I’m talking about today. I want to show you the one and only option trade that meets my stringent criteria for comfort.

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Stock Market Breaks Head & Shoulders Neckline / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

I had thought that there would be another retest of the Broadening Wedge before the SPX resumes its decline. However, the decline has now extended beneath the hourly Cycle Bottom at 1844.15. Since then it has bounced above the neckline and may yet retest the Broadening Wedge trendline before resuming its decline.

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Stock Market Sentiment Worsens As Indexes Move Down Within Recent Trading Range / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014

By: Paul_Rejczak

Our intraday outlook is neutral, and our short-term outlook remains neutral:

Intraday (next 24 hours) outlook: neutral
Short-term (next 1-2 weeks) outlook: neutral
Medium-term (next 1-3 months) outlook: neutral
Long-term outlook (next year): bullish

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Now The Stock Market Bears Need The Gap-And-Run Day...... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014

By: Jack_Steiman

So now that the bears finally have froth below the key 50-day exponential moving average on the daily, there is just one ingredient missing from taking over this market for the short-term. You all know what it is by now, but here's the refresher. A large gap down that runs lower for the entire day, with a close at, or on, the lows for the day. If they can accomplish this then they will have put technical damage in to this market, and they will have also put the 50-day exponential moving average on the Nasdaq in the rear view mirror.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

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By: EWI

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Peter Schiff Shares His Wealth Offshore Strategies / Stock-Markets / Investing 2014

By: Casey_Research

By Nick Giambruno

I’d bet that most International Man readers are familiar with Peter Schiff. He is a financial commentator and author, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, and is known for accurately predicting the 2008 financial crisis.

He also has a very keen understanding of internationalization. Peter shares with me his strategies in this must-read discussion below that I am happy to bring exclusively to International Man readers. (If you are not already a member, you can join for free here.)

Nick Giambruno: Peter, do you see the potential for another financial crisis in the US playing out in the not-so-distant future?

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Will Alibaba Destroy the World? / Stock-Markets / China Credit Crisis

By: PhilStockWorld

"The Word ends not with a bang, but a whimper."

As TS Elliot noted: "Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act falls the shadow." Whether or not Elliot was referring to "shadow banking" in 1925, 100 years later his words certainly ring true as "Vampire Internet Funds" like Alibaba's Yu'E Bao are draining liquidity out of China's financial system at an alarming rate.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Cold Warning - When Market Bubbles Burst / Stock-Markets / Liquidity Bubble

By: Raul_I_Meijer

You can hurt a few handfuls of Putin’s people for a few days with sanctions like closing their Visa accounts. But if you threaten to buy less Rosneft oil and Gazprom gas, why should they really care? It’s not as if there’s a glut of either available. Any pain will be short lived. Moreover, it’s all but certain that such actions will drive Russia and China closer together, and is that such a dream scenario for America and Europe?

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

S&P500, GOLD And Crude OIL Outlook / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014

By: Gregor_Horvat

S&P500 Daily: wave five reversing from resistance zone
S&P500 has been in bullish mode since February but it looks like that the direction of a trend could be changing now after a rally up to 1880/1920 Fibonacci and channel resistance area, where we see zone for a completed fifth wave in wave 5) of (3). So far, market is reversing nicely down with a weekly close price at 1839 so we suspect that market will continue to the downside now for a three wave pullback down in blue wave (4). We are also looking at the RSI that is reversing from 60/70 area that can be signaling for a bearish pullback, similar like in the past few months.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Froth Stocks in Mini Bear Market....Overall Market Still Meandering... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014

By: Jack_Steiman

There is really not much to add from what I spoke about on Friday. The bears once again seized on froth, but failed to seize on the entire market. The Nasdaq was down eighty-plus points intraday, but managed to recover some of those losses. The action on the Dow and S&P 500 was quite benign for now. There are two markets under way here. There's all that isn't froth, and those stocks are holding up quite well while froth gets hit day after day without mercy. There are some oversold bounces along the way, but the froth stocks are taking a real beating.

Monday, March 24, 2014

Stocks Continue To Fluctuate As Investors React To Mixed News / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014

By: Paul_Rejczak

Our intraday outlook is neutral, and our short-term outlook is neutral:

Intraday (next 24 hours) outlook: neutral
Short-term (next 1-2 weeks) outlook: neutral
Medium-term (next 1-3 months) outlook: neutral
Long-term outlook (next year): bullish

Monday, March 24, 2014

Stocks Bull Market Continues / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014

By: Tony_Caldaro

The market started the week gapping up after last Friday’s decline to SPX 1840. The rally carried it into FOMC Wednesday to SPX 1874. Then right after the FOMC statement was released the market dropped to SPX 1850. Another rally carried the market to match the all time high at SPX 1884 on Friday. Then right after the open Techs sold off and the market pulled back again. Another choppy week, only this time to the upside. For the week the SPX/DOW were +1.45%, the NDX/NAZ were +0.7%, and the DJ World index rose 0.7%. Economic reports for the week were positive. On the uptick: NY/Philly FED, capacity utilization, industrial production, NAHB, housing starts, building permits, CPI, leading indicators and the monetary base. On the downtick: existing home sales, and weekly jobless claims edged higher. Next week: Q4 GDP, Durable goods orders, and more Housing reports.

Monday, March 24, 2014

Stock Market Testing Resistance At Former High / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014

By: Andre_Gratian

Current Position of the Market

SPX: Very Long-term trend - The very-long-term cycles are in their down phases, and if they make their lows when expected (after this bull market is over), there will be another steep decline into late 2014. However, the Fed policy of keeping interest rates low has severely curtailed the full downward pressure potential of the 40-yr and 120-yr cycles.

Intermediate trend - Trying to overcome resistance at the high.

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Stock Market Top, Example of VIX ETF, TVIX to ride the Market Down / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014

By: Thomas_Clayton

DJIA. Huge non occurring volume at the Opening followed by meager volume and at Noon, the Bears decided to spank the Bulls.