Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Thursday, April 24, 2014
How High-Frequency Traders Use Dark Pools to Cheat Investors / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Money_Morning
While dark pools are not inherently bad, the abuse of dark pools by high-frequency traders has made it easier to exploit everyone else in the market, and increases the odds that a market downturn could quickly become a stock market crash.
So what are "dark pools," anyway?
Dark pools are off-exchange platforms that allow large investors, such as hedge funds and pension funds, to trade stocks anonymously. Dark pools arose in the late 1990s from a desire by these big players to conduct large-scale trades without tipping their hand.
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Thursday, April 24, 2014
Stock Market Bears Wrong Again, Apple to Push Dow to New All time High / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Despite continuing perma bearish diatribe of why the stocks bull markets demise is always imminent, instead the general stock market indices such as the S&P have been setting new all time highs with the Dow set to imminently make its next all time closing high that follows on strong corporate news from the tech giants such as Apple and Facebook.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Inverse relationship between the Yen and SPX / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
The daily SPX chart shows two Orthodox Broadening Tops in place. This is natural for fractals…yes, you are seeing double. This often happens with other formations as well. For example, smaller Head & Shoulders formations will appear within larger ones.
There are signs of weakness in these formations. The upper trendline of the blue Orthodox Broadening Top was overridden by the Ending Diagonal trendline, but it persisted in making a seventh point at 1897.28. Within that top is yet another Orthodox Broadening Top which may be failing as we speak. A failure to reach the upper trendline may be construed as a sell signal.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014
What Will December 31, 2014 Financial Headlines Look Like? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014
By: EWI
The financial forecasts around the end of 2013 brimmed with optimism. Here are just a few examples:
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Stock Market Is Weak in the Knees / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Investment_U
Christopher Rowe writes: The granddaddy of all stock market indicators, the New York Stock Exchange Bullish Percent Index (NYSE BPI), tells us how risky the market it is.
The indicator right now is showing a market that is losing momentum. I'll explain...
The NYSE BPI shows the percentage of stocks that are on "point and figure" buy signals.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Stock Market Rally Now at Day Six / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: PhilStockWorld
Courtesy of Doug Short: Asia-Pacific indexes had a mixed day with the Shanghai Composite up 0.44% Nikkei down 0.85%. European indexes fared better — the EURO STOXX 50 rising 1.39%. The S&P 500′s 0.41% gain didn’t match the European enthusiasm, but it extended its rally to six days, the longest since its 7-day advance in early September of last year. Year-to-date the index is up 1.69% and only 0.60% below its record close on April 2nd.
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Silver Up, Stocks S&P Down / Stock-Markets / Gold and Silver 2014
By: DeviantInvestor
Silver has had three bad years while the S&P has had five good years. It is time for both markets to reverse.
Examine the following graph of Silver versus the Silver to S&P ratio. It tells me the ratio has returned to levels seen in 2008 and that the ratio follows the price of silver. This is interesting but not that helpful.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Emerging Markets’ investing v Developed Markets / Stock-Markets / Emerging Markets
By: Jonathan_Davis
When we talk of Emerging Markets (EMs) we mean the likes of Brazil, Russia, India, China etc (AKA The BRICs).
The Developed Markets (DMs) are the Anglo Saxon countries and Japan, Germany, France etc.
Over the last 6-9 months there has been relentless negative publicity, in the media, about BRICs. Article after article in the press, commentary after commentary on radio, piece after piece on TV saying the same thing: “Steer clear of EMs. They will lose you vast amounts of money. Get out and never come back.”
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Stock Market Rally Won't Quit...Yet... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Jack_Steiman
And why should it? Just because sentiment is poor, and the weekly and monthly charts look awful, doesn't mean we should fall, now does it? I mean, don't we need a real reason to fall? Poor charts just isn't enough it seems. Ms. Yellen, and those low rates into perpetuity, just won't allow a real correction. Not yet, anyway. Sure, we have a bear market in froth, but we don't have even a real correction in the overall market. Market continues to find rotation as the name of the game. As long as that exists we won't fall very hard. Lower P/E stocks with solid earnings are holding this market up. Folks don't want to leave the market, they just want to place their money in the land of safety.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
A Crisis vs. the REAL Crisis: Keep Your Eye on the Debt Ball / Stock-Markets / Global Debt Crisis 2014
By: Casey_Research
By Laurynas Vegys, Research Analyst
Today I want to talk about crises. Two of the most notable ones that have been in the public eye over the course of the past 6-8 months are obviously the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria. The two are very different, yet both seemed to cause rallies in the gold market.
I say “seemed” because, while there were days when the headlines from either country sure looked to kick gold up a notch, there were also relevant and alarming reports from Argentina and emerging markets like China during many of the same time periods. Nevertheless, looking at the impressive gains during these periods, one has to wonder if it actually takes a calamity for gold to soar.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Is This What a Credit Bubble Looks Like? / Stock-Markets / Liquidity Bubble
By: F_F_Wiley
There’s been some buzz recently about a pick-up in business lending. The six largest banks increased business loans at an average annual rate of 8.5% in the first quarter, according to a Wall Street Journal report last week. Other first quarter data reported by the Fed shows commercial and industrial loans jumping 12% from last year. Charles Schwab’s chief strategist went so far as to call a chart depicting the Fed’s broader lending data “the most important chart in the world.”
Monday, April 21, 2014
Stock Market Smart Money – All Out or More to Go? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: PhilStockWorld
This has been the flow of Bloomberg's "Smart Money Flow Indicator" and, as Zero Hedge wonders: Just who is soaking up what the smart money is selling? Company Buybacks, Johnny 5 (tradebots) or the Greater-Fool Retail Investors?
Monday, April 21, 2014
How Last Week’s Stock Market Mini Rally Is Reshaping My Investment Strategy / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: DailyGainsLetter
George Leong writes: The stock market staged a minor rally last week, but don’t get too excited yet; the buying support was largely triggered by a technically oversold market, rather than solid fundamentals or a fresh catalyst.
What I can say is that investors need to be careful with the high-beta stocks that are extremely volatile at this time and vulnerable to downside selling.
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Monday, April 21, 2014
Stock Market Minor Correction Imminent / 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 - Failed to overcome resistance at the high. May have started an intermediate decline.
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Sunday, April 20, 2014
Nikkei Stock Market - Sell Japan / Stock-Markets / Japanese Stock Market
By: WavePatternTraders
Bottom line: Sell Japan, I think both markets still need at least one more leg lower to complete a corrective WXY decline from their respective peaks.
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Stock Market SPX Topping Valuations / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Valuations
By: Zeal_LLC
The lofty stock markets are starting to wobble, with selloffs’ frequency and sharpness increasing. The dominant reason the Fed’s stock levitation is running out of steam is severe overvaluation. Stocks are just far too expensive today compared to historic precedent, a dangerous state seen when bull markets are topping. Rampant overvaluation is a glaring warning sign to investors that selling is just beginning.
Friday, April 18, 2014
Best Stock Market Weekly Gain Since July 2013 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: PhilStockWorld
Courtesy of Doug Short: The pre-market announcement of new jobless claims continues to beat expectations with its four-week moving average now the lowest since early October of 2007, two months before the last recession. Despite the good claims number, the S&P 500 opened fractionally lower with some options expiration volume and sold off to its modest -0.30% intraday low 25 minutes later. The index slowly recovered to its 0.39% intraday high early in the final hour of trading. It closed with a trimmed gain of 0.14%, the fourth day of gains and a hefty 2.71% advance for the holiday-shortened week — the best weekly since the week after Independence Day in 2013.
Friday, April 18, 2014
Bank Depositor Bail-Ins and Real Assets vs Liability-Based Assets / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Dan_Amerman
Bail-ins are a new way of "rescuing" banks and other financial organizations that have been sweeping around the world, even as they rewrite the rules for investors and depositors.
Bail-ins have already occurred in Cyprus with their banking system, as well as with the retirement system in Poland. The European Union is on board in rapidly implementing bail-in standards, and they are under intensive scrutiny by regulators in the United States, with ratings on some major US bank securities already being changed in anticipation of the potential for bail-ins. Canada has announced its intentions in this area as well, and Japan is moving rapidly.
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Thursday, April 17, 2014
One of Harry Dent’s Three Keys to Market Prediction is Cycles / Stock-Markets / Cycles Analysis
By: Survive-Prosper
Harry Dent writes: I learned three crucial principles early on in my forecasting career.
The first is that the economy is a dynamic play between opposite principles.
The second is that natural, cyclical forces have an unstoppable effect on markets and economies, regardless of what we do.
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Thursday, April 17, 2014
Investors Ignore Frightful Russia, Europe Geopolitics / Stock-Markets / GeoPolitics
By: John_Browne
When the former Soviet Union collapsed almost 25 years ago, most global strategic forecasters assumed that the U.S. would adapt pragmatically to her new status of sole world superpower. Instead she has pursued a variety of misguided nation-building adventures and has largely shrunk from her primary responsibility of neutralizing the ambitions of petty dictators around the world. From this perspective, America's multi-generational expenditures on military personnel and equipment has become more of a stealth economic stimulus program rather than an insurance policy for global stability.