Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Tuesday, June 02, 2009
False New Stocks Bull Market Signal From Coppock Curve Indicator? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
I am seeing several articles in the main stream press and blogosphere regarding the "bullish signal" given by a technical indicator known as the Coppock Guide or Coppock Curve. As we can see in figure 1, a monthly chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (symbol: $DJIA), the Coppock Guide has turned up from a very low level. Thus according to the above referenced sources, this indicates a new bull market.
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Strengthening Chinese Economy And Commodities Cheer Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
So, the old cliché that “what is good for GM is good for the USA” is yesteryear’s story. Risk appetite is back. Impressive Chinese PMI data lit the initial spark and the Far Eastern induced rally didn’t stop until the closing bell rang in New York. Oil & tech stocks were in the vanguard of the surge higher with semi conductors up 5%.
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Next Phase In The Financial and Economic Crisis / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
The recent stock market rise is lulling investors back to sleep.
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Monday, June 01, 2009
Stock Market Rally Looking Tired, Some Technical Indicators Improving / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
The S&P 500 rally is beginning to look a bit tired. The price action is more sideways than up and the volume is declining. That may just be the pause that refreshes, or it may be the pause before a retracement.
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Monday, June 01, 2009
Stock Market Traders Take Note: These 'Risky' Stocks Are Dominating / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
Tom Dyson writes: There's a runaway freight train in the markets. This group of stocks has the strongest uptrend anywhere in the world... and it's still getting stronger.
If there's one group of stocks you need to own right now, it's this group. Let me show you why...
Monday, June 01, 2009
Stock Market Climning a Wall of Worry? / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
In keeping with the theme from last week – how many straws will it take before the markets finally break? Or is the “wall of worry” that the market is climbing higher still? Adding to the continued housing woes and a confident (but not spending) consumer, we should see General Motors declare bankruptcy this week (which will force the Dow to change some members).
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Monday, June 01, 2009
Stock Market Investing Profits Map For The Next 6 Months! / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
Larry Edelson writes: Every so often it pays to take a few steps back … look at the charts from a longer-term point of view … and put the markets into perspective.
This is especially true today with so much confusion in the markets … so much misinformation in the news … so many threats to your wealth … and so much background noise and distractions.
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Monday, June 01, 2009
Investing in Royalty Trusts: How Some Investors Are Getting Paid $3,600 an Hour / Stock-Markets / Investment Funds
The two of us just sat there eating some leftovers from KD’s Bar BQ, drinking from sweaty bottles of water, watching it.
The numbers on the rusty old meter just kept rolling over. One…by one…by one.
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Monday, June 01, 2009
Why May’s Stock Market and Commodities Gains Can Continue / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
The book is closed on May, and what a great month it was for commodities, precious metals and emerging markets. And there are several good reasons to believe that the strong performance will continue in June and beyond.
The price of oil rose nearly 30 percent in May to close above $66 a barrel. This was oil’s biggest monthly gain since March 1999, when it climbed more than 36 percent. Natural gas picked up 14 percent, reversing its negative trend so far in 2009.
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Monday, June 01, 2009
Stocks Bear Market Rally, Debt Is Your Worst Enemy / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
Debt is your worst enemy right now – make no mistake about it. And the reasons for this understanding are plain for all to see, with the most profound being the next round of deleveraging might be just around the corner, meaning worsening asset price deflation would make it impossible for most to ever escape the debt death trap outside of a jubilee, which is the last thing our blood sucking financial institutions want. No, no, no. They are all for usury and kicking the little guy when he’s down however, with the most blatant example of this being credit card issuers (banks) jacking interest rates to exorbitant levels not just for those who miss a payment, but for everybody with an outstanding balance. What’s worse of course is this is being done in the face of a collapsing economy that greedy bankers are all too aware of, and despite evidence such policy could tip the economy over on its head.
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Monday, June 01, 2009
GM RIP, NOT Too Big to Fail / Stock-Markets / US Auto's
With the Irish Bank Holiday, it’s a quick one today. Today sees the once-great General Motors humbly applying for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It must have been a hard weekend as the clock ticked towards the June 1 government deadline to restructure. The company plan to name turnaround executive Al Koch to serve as its chief restructuring officer to help the company through bankruptcy protection. GM has already has received about £12.5 billion in government loans and could get nearly £19 billion more to make it through what is expected to be a 60 to 90-day reorganisation in bankruptcy court.
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Monday, June 01, 2009
Stocks Bear Market Rally Consolidating Before the Rally Resumes / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
Current Position of the Market
SPX: Long-term trend - Down! The very-long-term cycles have taken over and if they make their lows when expected, the bear market which started in October 2007 should continue until 2012-2014. This would imply that much lower prices lie ahead.
SPX: Intermediate trend - Sideways! The counter-trend rally which started on March 6 is undergoing a consolidation which could last two or three more weeks, after which the bear market rally will continue.
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
The Stock Market Correction that has Failed to Materialise / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
The good news is: The NASDAQ composite (OTC) finished at a multi month high last Friday and all of the NASDAQ summation indices (SI's) turned upward.
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Stock Market Investor Sentiment Intent on Crushing the Bears / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
There is no meaningful difference in the "Dumb Money" and "Smart Money" indicators from last week. The "dumb money" is extremely bullish, and their persistence is being rewarded as the major indices turned in winning performances for the month of May. The "smart money" is bearish but not to an extreme degree.
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Stock Market Shrugs off GM Bankruptcy / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
Main Street takes a hit in GM bankruptcy - The loser in a General Motors Corp. bankruptcy would be Main Street, not Wall Street, said a lawyer who represented Chrysler LLC’s dissident lenders and is trying to organize bondholders who hold up to $7 billion in GM’s debt. What’s being offered is the U.S.-backed plan to give the American and Canadian governments as much as 69 percent of the equity and a 17.5 percent trust for unions, while bondholders only get 10%. GM plans to file for bankruptcy on June 1, people familiar with the matter said.
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
Stock Market Investors Mindset of Guaranteed Economic Destruction / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment
Gary North writes: Most people will not change. Too radical. Not going with the flow. Not betting against the herd.
The best examples in the 20th century were Jews in Germany in 1933. They stayed. This included Jewish bankers, all of whom could have left. They thought they could deal with Hitler. They did not read Mein Kampf. They did not take it seriously.
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
Stocks Bear Market Warning! Counter-Trend Moves Spark False Hopes / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
As the counter-trend moves continue, the optimism grows. William Peter Hamilton, the great Dow theorist who followed in the footsteps on Charles H. Dow, warned against allowing “the wish to father the thought.” Based on the technical and statistical work that I do, the data is telling me that pretty much all of the moves we have been seeing over the last 2 to 6 months, depending on which market you are looking at, are counter-trend moves. As a result of these counter-trend affairs, the powers that be continue to think that they have the problem under control. The average person on the street sees that the markets are rising and they too begin to think that the worst is behind us and that maybe the bail-outs and various stimulus packages are working.
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
Stock Market Consolidation Continues... Nasdaq Leading / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
There is a lot of anxiety out there. You can feel it. It has an energy. It has a vibration to it. It's the feeling of fear. The feeling that things are about to fall apart. Like we're sitting on the precipice of disaster. Maybe we are. Are we? You want to try and anticipate things if you're a market player. You want to be ahead of the next big move. We've been lucky enough or fortunate enough to be able to do that the past many years. One of the ways that gets done is when you see something technically that goes against the grain of the current trend.
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
Elliott Wave Theory Based Trading Into and out-of the Stock Market March 2009 Low / Stock-Markets / Economic Theory
We trust that all those who have engaged in trading markets for any period of time will conclude that it is an unrealistic expectation that any single or group of trading strategies can work to perfection all of the time. Price action is elusive more often than not. As a result, losses are a most assured and inevitable part of the entire trading process. However, unwelcomed but anticipated nonetheless, cumulative debilitating losses need not dominate ones trading experience. Similar to a professional baseball player’s batting average, highly successful trading strategies need only perform with consistency a small percentage of the time in order to deliver phenomenal benchmarked measures of success.
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Friday, May 29, 2009
How Manipulated Financial Markets Really Work / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
Wall Street's mantra is that markets move randomly and reflect the collective wisdom of investors. The truth is quite opposite. The government's visible hand and insiders control markets and manipulate them up or down for profit - all of them, including stocks, bonds, commodities and currencies.
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