Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
Stock Market Trading In Between Support... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Jack_Steiman
A week of selling came our way and it had a good side to it if you're a bull. Selling never feels good, but you have to look deeper than just price to see if what took place during that selling possibly gives us something to get hopeful about. Again, that's if you're near-term bullish only. The bears will want to see if the selling is the start of something bigger for them and will look deeply inside the numbers for the week to see if their hopes will soon be put in to motion as well. The week started out with most of the index charts and just about every leadership stock chart on high poles and very overbought at 918 gap resistance. We were able to get a bit higher than that level but the overbought extremes would not allow the market to make a deeper move to the upside. we started to gradually pull back and we warned of a test of the recent breakout at 875.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Stock Market Investor Sentiment: Is More Bulls A Good Thing? / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment
By: Guy_Lerner
Although the S&P500 lost 4.9% for the week, the bullish contingent actually grew stronger. This can be seen in the "Dumb Money" indicator shown in figure 1. The "Dumb Money" indicator looks for extremes in the data from 4 different groups of investors who historically have been wrong on the market: 1) Investor Intelligence; 2) Market Vane; 3) American Association of Individual Investors; and 4) the put call ratio.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Stock Market Symmetry Scenario Gives S&P 500 Decline More Room to Run / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Let¹s say that the symmetry exhibited by the March-May rally with the
January-March decline continues into the future. What would the next leg of
the S&P 500 look like?
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
Global Stock Market Rally Finally Succumbs to Selling on Premature Recovery Optimism / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Prieur_du_Plessis
A long-awaited reversal in the monumental global stock market rally since early March finally arrived last week. As the first-quarter earnings season started winding down and post stress-test capital-raising weighed on some banks, investors were faced with a slew of gloomy economic reports suggesting the recent optimism about a global recovery might have been premature.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Global Systemic Financial Crisis Surrealism at the Heart of Stock Market Trends / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Global_Research
GEAB writes: The financial surrealism which has been at the heart of stock market trends, financial indicators and political commentaries in the past two months, is in fact the swan song of the referential framework within which the world has lived since 1945.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Stock Markets Expected to Consolidate After Strong Rally / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
By: Mike_Burk
The good news is: In spite of a pretty rough week for the major indices there were no new lows to speak of on either the NYSE or NASDAQ.
Short Term I have often stated that the secondaries lead both up and down.
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Saturday, May 16, 2009
Stock Market Counter Trend Rally on False Hopes of Green Shoots Recovery / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Tim_Wood
A Brief History and Dow Theory Update - The method used and written about well over 100 years ago by Charles H. Dow were first termed “Dow’s Theory” after Dow’s death in 1902 by S.A. Nelson, who was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal under Dow’s stewardship. About a year following Dow’s death, William Peter Hamilton, who also served as a reporter under Dow began to write articles for The Wall Street Journal – mostly under the heading "The Price Movement." In these articles Hamilton analyzed and discussed, in terms of the investment or speculative outlook, the movements of the Dow-Jones Averages as related to business conditions in general.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
The Impact of Economic Data Revisions at Stock Market Junctures / Stock-Markets / Recession 2008 - 2010
By: John_Mauldin
Can I Have Some More of that Data, Please?
The Fault, Dear Brutus, is Not in Our Stars
Faith-Based Economics
Is Unemployment a Lagging or a Leading Indicator?
An Unsustainable Trend in Debt
Some Thoughts on the Health Care Problem
Why does government data need to be revised so often? Is it conspiracy, as some claim, or is it methodology? And if it is methodology that leads to faulty data, then why not change the methodology? Is unemployment a lagging indicator, as conventional wisdom suggests? We look again at the underlying assumptions to suggest that things are not always the same. And finally, we look at unsustainable trends, fiscal deficits, and health care -- there is a connection.
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Friday, May 15, 2009
UltraShort SPY (SDS) Looks Higher / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Mike_Paulenoff
UltraShort SPAs we head into the noon-time lull, the ProShares UltraShort SPY (NYSE: SDS) is carving out an interesting and very nervous near-term pattern between 61.30/80 on the high side, juxtaposed against 59.60/40 on the low side. The weight of my near-term technical work leans towards an upside resolution to the trading range, with the SDS thrusting above 61.80/85 towards my optimal target zone of 63.50. At this juncture, only another downside pivot reversal that presses the SDS beneath 59.50/40 will wreck the developing pattern.Y (SDS) Looks HigherRead full article... Read full article...
Friday, May 15, 2009
Time to Sell the Stock Market Rally, Real Bottom is Far Away / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: LewRockwell
Bill Bonner writes: Have you checked your stops, dear reader?
Remember back in November, we waited for the Obama Bounce? It was the one of the most reliable phenomena in the world of investing, we said. Then, we began to wonder. Month after month...no bounce.
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Friday, May 15, 2009
Battle of the Tech Stock Giants, Apple vs RIMM / Stock-Markets / Tech Stocks
By: INO
It is the battle of the tech titans as both RIMM and APPL battle for the smartphone market share. Although Research In Motion is a well established tech giant as the creator of the BlackBerry, they may have hit a wall with Apple, Inc.'s launch of the phenomenally popular iPhone.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Stock Markets Snap Three Day Losing Streak / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
On a drab, lethargic day, financials Citigroup and JP Morgan led the Dow Jones to a modest 46 point gain. Chip stocks on the Nasdaq (notably Rambus, who had an anti trust suit against them dismissed by the FTC) and the broader S&P 500 faired better, posting 1% and 1.5% rises respectively. In other equity news Wal-Mart came in with numbers that were in line with expectations, while upper end chain store Nordstrom beat profit estimations after the closing bell. They also bullishly raised guidance for the year.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
This Leading Stock Market Indicator Holds the Key for Investors / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: DailyWealth
Tom Dyson writes: To predict the stock market, I watch lumber...
To store lumber, you need a large climate-controlled warehouse with a railroad spur. Even then, it could still spoil within six months, destroying your entire investment.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Stock Market Indices Rally Back to Resistance Before Giving Back a Chunk of Gains / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The indices had a snapback session from a technically oversold condition, and rallied back to resistance but rolled over in the last hour and took back a chunk of the gains. However, they still ended positive on the session.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Economic Green Shoots Torpedoed by Chrysler Bankruptcy / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
More Americans than forecast filed unemployment-insurance claims last week because of the Chrysler LLC bankruptcy that is likely to reverberate through the economy for months.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
ETFs For Every Investor! / Stock-Markets / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Money_and_Markets
Ron Rowland writes: In last week’s Money and Markets column, I told you about the advantages exchange-traded funds have over mutual funds. Today we’ll go a little deeper and look at the many exciting ways you can execute your investment ideas with ETFs.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Withering Green Shoots of Recovery Send Stocks Reeling / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
The bulls immaculate recovery lost its virginity yesterday, as news of record home foreclosures and signs of belt tightening by the all-important US consumer, in the form of very disappointing weak retail sales, sent US stocks tumbling.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Technical Leading Stock Market Indicators That Professional Investors Look At / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Marty_Chenard
Professional investors have an advantage for a lot of reasons. One reason is because of the amounts and types of data they look at.
One thing that professional investors keep an eye on is the volume of Advancing and/or Declining shares every day.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Downward Pressure Building for S&P 500 Stock Market Index / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Donald_W_Dony
In the May newsletter, I indicated that major indexes were expected to retest their march lows by early July. Models were suggesting that the highest probability of renewed weakness could be expected in mid-May. Though the actual change in trend has not quite occurred, the bullish attitude and trading over the last 2-3 days for the benchmark S&P 500 has clearly shifted to a more bearish tone.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Pullback Within Incomplete Upleg for Financial XLF ETF / Stock-Markets / Banking Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Let's have another look at the pattern that is unfolding in the Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF), which is my proxy for determining whether or not to enter its inverse ultrashort counterpart, the UltraShort Financial ProShares (NYSE: SKF).
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