Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Stock Market Indices Reverse Sharply to Close Lower / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Harry_Boxer

The stock market indices started the week with a bang and a nice gap up, ran hard in the morning and reached the session high at about 11:00 am right at key overhead resistance on the S&P 500 near the 1105 area. The Nasdaq 100 at that point reached near 1880, getting up to 1877, but they were unable to make any further advances.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Stock Market Trend In A Word, Awful... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Jack_Steiman

What more can be said for a market that makes its fourth try at critical resistance with a positive divergence in place and spits the bit. Hard to believe how bad the market was today considering what was set in motion. If this was a head fake lower, what a fake it was. Bearish action for sure. We started out with a gap up that took us to that magic number once again at 1105 S&P 500. The market looked poised to take it out but we were very overbought on the short-term 60-minute charts where we saw 70 + RSI's and 90 + stochastic's. MACD's top side as well.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Stock Market Timing Correlation Against Currencies / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Graham_Summers

Pop Quiz: what do you get when you combine a stock market completely overrun by computer programs with central bankers who believe currency debasement is a means to generate real wealth?

Answer: insane volatility in which the entire market follows various asset classes tick for tick.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Unraveling Stock Market Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Paul_J_Nolte

Whether you call it a merry-go-round or a roller coaster, the ride of the past two weeks has put you right back where you started. While a rally was not too surprising, given the huge amount of selling over the prior two weeks, the markets seemed to still be trading on data from overseas rather than economic data here. For example, the huge rally on Thursday was, in part, due to tremendous exports reported by China rather than our rather lousy report on weekly jobless claims.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Is There Enough Liquidity in the Stock Market? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Marty_Chenard

When there is a lot of money available for buying an item, supply goes down and prices go up.

The same happens in the stock market. When lots of money moves in, Liquidity levels move from Contraction to Expansion. When Liquidity hits an expansion level, competition for stocks will drive prices up and the overall market will propel upward.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Stocks Bear Market Rally Dow Theory Update / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Tim_Wood

I continue to receive questions regarding Dow theory and whether or not a so-called "sell signal" has been triggered. Technically, with Dow theory there is no such thing as a buy or sell "signal." Rather, the Dow theory founding fathers anticipated trend changes and during these periods of such participation they would begin to establish their positions ahead of the anticipated trend change. They referred to these periods of anticipation as "buy and sell spots."

Monday, June 14, 2010

Stocks Start the Week on the Front Foot / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: PaddyPowerTrader

Are markets becoming less sensitive to bad news or is it just priced in ? Poor retail sales data from the US on Friday (remember 60% plus of American GDP comes from private consumption) sent stocks lower early in the New York session. However, they closed up after a late rally led by IT and basic materials stocks. A better than expected consumer confidence number at 3pm BST Friday and a report from the Semiconductor Industry Association, which raised its chip sales forecast, sparked the comeback which helped the market overcome the largest drop in American retail sales since September.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Stock Market Light volume rally... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Mark_McMillan

Trade Recommendations: Take no action.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Stock Market Stuck as Investors Demand Risk Premium for Buying / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Money_Morning

Jon D. Markman writes: Stocks rose worldwide over the past week by 2% to 5%, swelling with sudden courage after positive economic reports from China and shaking off some worsening news in the United States about retail sales and jobs.

Yet results in the past month are still heavily negative, ranging from -5.5% for U.S. stocks and -8.5% for Europe. China has suddenly become the most buoyant region, up 1.5% in the past month.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Dow Jones, Crude Oil, Euro, Sterling and Gold Market Updates / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Ajit_Singh

When you're trading short term timeframes it's important to have a check of what the long term timeframes are doing as somewhere along the line they interlink with one another providing critical levels and trading triggers.

We've been catching the short term moves with ease last week using our short term timeframes and with our TMS Strategy which has been catching some nice position signal moves using longer term timeframes.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Stocks SP500 Index, Crude Oil and Gold Trading at Resistance Levels / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Chris_Vermeulen

Last week we saw the financial market including commodities move higher which was great to see. But the recent run up has brought both equities and commodities to their key resistance levels. With Gold, Oil and the SP500 trading near key resistance points we will most likely have some sharp movements this week so buckle up tight!

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Stock Market Internals Are Pre Crash Unhealthy, Sitting on a Precipice / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Robert_McHugh_PhD

Stocks sit this weekend at the precipice. Conditions are ripe for a waterfall decline. This does not mean there will be a crash starting over the next few weeks, so please do not go out and short the farm. What we can tell you is the risk of one occurring is higher than normal, that conditions that preceded prior stock market crashes exist right here and now.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Is the Stock Market Trend Ready to Repeat Itself? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: JD_Rosendahl

If we make the assumption the bottom of this leg down from the April top is done then the most common expectations are a bullish new high or a bearish right shoulder.

The bullish view is off to a new high.  There's not enough technical damage to rule this out.  It's not my primary view, but it's still viable.  See weekly chart below for what that might look like.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Stock Market Investor Sentiment: Lack Of Conviction? / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment

By: Guy_Lerner

Investors remain bearish, and buying into last week's weakness continues to be the right play -- so far. However, a positive outcome is far from certain especially since there is an apparent lack of conviction amongst the "smart money". Nonetheless, this is our "fat pitch" especially since we have defined our downside risk and where a failed signal might occur. Despite these concerns this is a dynamic market environment with the potential for big gains.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Stock Market Bulls Watch for a Higher High Whilst Bears Growl For New Lows / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Nadeem_Walayat

Disappointing U.S. retail sales data on Friday failed to dent the stock market as it closed higher on the day and the week at Dow 10,211, up 279 (9,932). From the start of the week the stock market trended lower into an early week low at just below 9,800 that was followed by a volatile uptrend right into Friday's close.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Stocks Shrugging off Bad News Attempt a Rebound / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

Retail Sales in U.S. Fall as Consumers Boost Savings - Sales at U.S. retailers unexpectedly dropped in May, signaling consumers boosted savings as employment slowed and stocks fell. Purchases decreased 1.2 percent, the biggest drop since September 2009, following a 0.6 percent April gain that was larger than previously estimated, Commerce Department figures showed today in Washington. Demand plunged at building-material stores, reflecting the end of a government appliance rebate, and sales fell at auto dealers, in contrast to industry figures which showed a gain.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Quiet But Positive Day Below Resistance...Weekly's Bullish With Tails..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Jack_Steiman

Market is overbought short-term but there are no sellers for now. The positive divergences on the MACD on the daily charts on the S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq are keeping a bid in the market. Even poor retail sales numbers this morning for May couldn't kill the market today. The futures fell 30 points on the report on the Nasdaq but after the gap down, the market shot straight back up. No selling at the end of the day even though the Dow was down around 70 points intra-day.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Stock Market Sell in May and Go Away But For How Long? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Sy_Harding

‘Sell in May and Go Away’ sure did work for the month of May, the worst May for the stock market since 1962. And so far the month of June has not been much better.

But go away for how long? Two months? Three months? July is usually a pretty good month for a summer rally isn’t it?

Friday, June 11, 2010

Stock Markets Cautious After A Big Up Day / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: PaddyPowerTrader

U.S. stocks rallied Thursday with the S&P 500 Index gaining the most in two weeks, as economic reports from China, Japan and Australia that surprised on the upside boosted optimism about the global economy. Caterpillar, the world’s largest maker of construction equipment, rose 5.5% and Alcoa, the biggest U.S. aluminum producer, climbed 4.2%. BP’s U.S. shares rebounded 12%, the most since October 2008 after earlier slumping to a 7 year low, as JPMorgan Chase said the rout in the stock has overshot the potential damage from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Goldman Sachs fell to the lowest in more than a year on reports of a fresh regulatory probe.

Friday, June 11, 2010

The Stocks Bulls and Bears Battle / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: INO

The battle between the Bulls and Bears continues with very choppy trading action. The rally from a potential double bottom is cause for concern for the Bears, however the Bulls are in a similar situation as they have to prove their case with sustained market action.