Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
How to Trade Using Stock Market Sentiment and the Holiday Season / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Chris_Vermeulen
The months of November and December are the second strongest back to back months for the financial markets. Many traders and investors use this time of the year to reap big gains as they close the year out. The fact that most traders and investors are sitting in cash and underweight stocks in their portfolio’s leaves me to believe a Santa Clause rally is just around the corner. Reason being is everyone has cash on hand to buy stocks because they are selling their positions in this pullback we are in right now. I know traders well enough, they will buy back into the market trying to catch the holiday rally in the coming weeks.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Stock Market Set to Start the Strongest Part of the Current Decline / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
-- The VIX came to rest today at the bottom trendline of the diamond formation, above intermediate-term trend support at 31.63. It remains on a buy signal and may be poised for a breakout above the top of the diamond formation. This is a bullish reversal formation that has the potential 13% failure rate and an average target of approximately 50.00 in the VIX.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Robert Prechter on the importance of Keeping Your Money Safe in a Stocks Bear Market Environment / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: EWI
In an interview with the Mind of Money, Robert Prechter stresses the importance of keeping your money safe in this bear market environment. According to the Elliott wave model, we have entered a critical phase in the market. This 3-minute video clip will help you to prepare for what's ahead.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Stock Market Crash Watch is Still On / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
As you can see, Cycle Bottom resistance is keeping the SPX from advancing. The same is happening with the NDX. Domestic equities have one more day to bounce higher, since the ½ cycle turn occurs on Thursday. Even if the market rallies tomorrow, the rally may be short lived and untradable.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Perfect Storm, European Banks Heading for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Mike_Shedlock
Panic is spreading says Steen Jakobsen, chief economist at Saxo Bank. Steen eyes the perfect storm including a potential "Chapter 11" call for European banks.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Russell Napier on Generational Cycles, Stocks Bear Market Bottoms and West Vs. East / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: Aftab_Singh
Russell Napier (renown financial historian and consultant for CLSA) has articulated some fantastic insights on the generational cycle, bear market bottoms and currencies in recent years. So for this reason we decided to compile a ‘Russell Napier’s Greatest Hits’ video for you to enjoy. See below for the video and summary.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
MF Global Revelations Keep Getting Worse / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: Janet_Tavakoli
· Shortfall estimated at $1.2 billion or more (up from $600 million)
· “Repo-to-Maturity” is a “Total Return Swap-to-Maturity,” a Type of Credit Derivative
· Probable Shortfalls Throughout 2011
· Regulators Waive Required Tests for Jon Corzine
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Will Stock Market Turn Positive For Thanksgiving Holiday? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX back-tested the bottom trendline of the Broadening Wedge and Cycle bottom Resistance at 1200.64. There are two potential paths for the SPX from here. The first pattern would recognize the top of wave ii at 1277.55. That suggests a further drop to 1145, fulfilling the minimum target for the upward-slanting Head & Shoulders neckline before a bounce back to Cycle bottom resistance, or higher. I favor that pattern, although it has some flaws.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Super Dud Committee... Not Really.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Jack_Steiman
Having expectations when you look at where we're at fundamentally makes little to no sense whatsoever. What was the super committee really going to be able to come up with when you break it down? We have the entire euro zone ready to go under, and many brilliant minds have been unable to come with any good solution. Why would they be able to? The structural problems are so deep that sometimes you have to throw your hands up in the air and say I give up. There truly is nothing we can do. We want to help, but maybe helping would only create deeper problems in the long-term, and that's something we all have to watch closely. Hopefully, there will be no more sacrificing the moment to get some relief for long-term destruction. Everyone seems to be more aware of that, but let's hope that they don't lose sight of it all when things get worse.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Stock Market Extreme Over Valuation Warning / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Valuations
By: EWI
This is one of our favourite charts, it depicts two different valuation measures. On X axis, we show the S&P500 annual dividend yield, and on the Y-axis the S&P Industrials' price to book value ratio. The box shows you normal valuation, at least as it was established in the 20th century. You can see that the dividend yield fluctuated from around 3% at tops in the market to 6 or 7 percent at bottoms in the market.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Gold and Stock Market Trading Surrounded by European Sovereign Debt Crisis Risk / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: J_W_Jones
The current trading environment is one of the most difficult that I can recall in recent memory. Risks abroad regarding the European sovereign debt crisis is keeping market participants on edge as headline risk seemingly surrounds traders at every turn.
In addition to the risk posed by Europe, the market’s reaction to the Congressional Super Committee’s upcoming statements also poses risks. As it stands now, the media is reporting that the committee is in gridlock and has yet to compromise. The deadline for the Super Committee is Wednesday, November 23rd. The gridlock leads to uncertainty, and Mr. Market hates uncertainty. High levels of uncertainty corresponds with increased volatility levels, thus caution is warranted.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Stock Market Emini S&P Nearing Key Fib Support / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Mike_Paulenoff
A big picture perspective of the e-mini S&P 500 shows that the decline off of the Oct 27 high at 1289.25 is nearing key Fibonacci support plateaus at 1179.25 and then 1153.50.
Let's notice that since last Thursday's weakness, the e-SPZ has broken and sustained beneath the prior "bullish" coil pattern, as well as my "directional" EMAs of 14, 30, 50 and 200, all of which have rolled over into varying degrees of a negative slope.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Stock Market Outlook Still Favors Bearish Outcomes / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Chris_Ciovacco
Numerous problems are facing investors:
- The flawed structure of the Eurozone is coming back to haunt global leaders. The markets want the European Central Bank (ECB) to print money, but the golden rule applies: “He who has the gold makes the rules.” In Europe, Germany “has the gold”. Germany has seen what money printing can do and thus, is vehemently opposed to cranking up the printing presses.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Stock Market Sitting on Nothing But Air, Dollar About to Breakout? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
-- The VIX pullback to intermediate-term trend support at 32.08. It is on a weekly buy signal, having crossed above its 4-year cycle support at 27.26 (red line). The buy signal is confirmed on the daily chart, as it is necessary to remain at or above intermediate-term Support/Resistance. The current buy signal remains in effect for a probable three weeks or longer. That indicates the probability of strong positive momentum in the Volatility Index lasting through early December.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Stock Market Still Consolidating? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Andre_Gratian
SPX: Very Long-term trend - The very-long-term cycles are down and, if they make their lows when expected, there will be another steep and prolonged decline (which appears to have already started) into 2014.
SPX: Intermediate trend - The rally from 1075 is most likely expanding its consolidation. It's probably too early to start another major leg down.
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
On the Verge of Huge Stock Market Crash, Implications For Gold and Silver / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Willem_Weytjens
We might be on the verge of another huge market crash, one similar to 2008.
Check out the following chart below, and you will see why…
- The RSI hasn’t been overbought anymore in a long time, indicating weakness in stock markets… The same was true in 2008.
- The SP500 found heavy resistance in the 1260-1280 zone (just as we warned our subscribers), which was the low of June 2011. A similar thing happened back in May 2008, where price ran into resistance of the November 2007 low.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Stock Market Chart Patterns Beauty Of Symmetry / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Tony_Pallotta
There are no other words to describe the symmetry between these two chart patterns than simply beautiful.
I purposely left the scale and dates off the charts as to not distract your eyes. It is simply too powerful to ignore yet that is what many have done, self included over the past two weeks as the 200MA blurred our vision. A somewhat meaningless number took our eyes off the pattern playing out before us.
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Stock Market Reply of 2008 Financial Armageddon Panic All Over Again? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Willem_Weytjens
When I was looking at some long term charts, I found out that the current situation for the SP500 is very similar to the situation in 2008.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Has the Stock Market Bear Returned? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Toby_Connor
The recent market action has me wondering if the next leg down in the cyclical bear market has begun.
I always expected that we would see a very convincing rally out of the October yearly cycle low. I thought it even possible that we would test the 200 day moving average. Most bear markets do rally out of the initial leg down and test the 200 day moving average.
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Stock Market Bull or Bear, This Correction Should Tell / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Tony_Caldaro
For the third week in a row the market had a turnaround tuesday event. Three weeks ago it hit the SPX 1215 low. Two weeks ago the SPX 1278 high. And, this tuesday the high for the week at SPX 1264. Economic reports for the week were again biased to the upside. On the downtick: the CPI/PPI, retail sales, business inventories, housing starts and the Philly FED. On the uptick: the NY FED, industrial production, capacity utilization, the NAHB housing index, building permits, leading indicators, the monetary base, the M1-multiplier, the WLEI, and weekly jobless claims improved. For the week the SPX/DOW were -3.35%, and the NDX/NAZ were -4.15%. Asian markets lost 3.0%, European markets lost 2.9%, and the DJ World index lost 3.9%. Next week’s holiday shortened economic highlights are Q3 GDP, PCE prices and the FOMC minutes.