Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Stock Market Investor Sentiment, Is it Providing a Warning? / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment

By: Sy_Harding

Investor sentiment is known as a contrary indicator. Here’s how that works.

When a market correction is underway investors naturally become increasingly fearful and bearish as prices continue to fall. By the time the correction ends, investor sentiment has reached a high level of fear and bearishness.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Is The Banking Cartel Failing? What Next? / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2010

By: DeepCaster_LLC

“The mortgage chief of the second largest U.S. bank was mobbed by angry borrowers after he invited customers to speak to him if they feared foreclosure of their homes…

"He ran. He ran like a dog with its tail between his legs," said Bruce Marks of the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA), which helps homeowners avoid foreclosure. "He was scared to death because he doesn't really want to talk to homeowners."”

Friday, April 16, 2010

EXTEND & PRETEND: Gaming the US Tax Payer / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2010

By: Gordon_T_Long

Today, April 15^th, most of us grudgingly settle our annual obligations with the government tax authorities. But for how long will we keep doing this? How long will we support the government’s Ponzi scheme that makes a mockery out of the monies we have annually contributed obediently to our Social Security and Medicare accounts? What I am going to share with you may make this a haunting question for you throughout the next taxation year.

Friday, April 16, 2010

High Frequency Trading Friday, The WSJ Finally Catches On! / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: PhilStockWorld

Has the World gone sane?

I was amazed this morning to see both the usual contrarian indicator of a bullish cover on Newsweek (mission accomplished market pumpers) and a good piece of reporting in the Journal on a topic ZeroHedge and I have been pounding the table on for a year.  Our readers will find nothing new in the article "This Market Has Its Freq On" but to see it finally summarized in the MSM (giving us no credit at all, of course) is at least a little bit satisfying. 

Friday, April 16, 2010

It Is All About Corporate Earnings Today / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: PaddyPowerTrader

US stocks rose again Thursday, sending the S&P 500 toward its longest weekly winning streak since 2007, as optimism that earnings and the economy are growing overshadowed an unexpected increase in jobless claims. Intel, Caterpillar and General Electric helped lead the Dow higher after Federal Reserve reports showed factory production increased 0.9% in February and regional data indicated the gains extended into this month. UPS rallied 5.3% after lifting its earnings forecast and Mariner Energy surged 42% after Apache agreed to buy the company.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Finally Stocks Get Some Bad News...But... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Jack_Steiman

Well we finally have some bad news tonight as we have the earnings numbers from Google (GOOG) and Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (ISRG). Both are down big after hours, especially GOOG. ISRG is down roughly 15, and GOOG down roughly 27. Now the question becomes, what, if anything, will these two losers do to the market tomorrow!?

Friday, April 16, 2010

Despite Trillions of Debt, Can the Stock Market Keep Going Higher? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: INO

We owe trillions of dollars, but Crude oil is at $86 a barrel, the DOW, S&P, and NASDAQ are making new highs almost everyday and unemployment is officially at 9.7%.

Everything is great! Happy days are here again... Right?

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Stock Market Sell-Off Fails to Follow-Through / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Mike_Paulenoff

Heading into the final two hours of trading, the S&P 500 emini (e-SPM) is perched right near this AM's new high of 1210.50. After an intervening, intraday pullback into the 1204 area, the index pivoted to the upside rather than fully retest the low of the session at 1201. Once again, a sell-off that could have potentially inflicted a bit of near term damage failed to follow-through on the downside (beneath the pre-open low at 1201.00 in this case).

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Stock Market Rally, Is It Live? Or Is It Memorex? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: David_Grandey

Is it Live? Or Is It Memorex? Anyone remember that commercial?

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Central Banks Stoking Stock Market Euphoria / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Gary_Dorsch

With only the slightest degree of hesitation, the Dow Jones Industrials penetrated the psychological 11,000-level this week, extending its historic gains to +70% above its March 2009 lows, and melting away deep-seeded skepticism over whether equities have gone “too-far, too-fast,” in what is the least-loved bull market in history. Yet the bearish skeptics might want to judge the outlook for the US-economy through the lens of the stock market, rather than vice versa.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Stock Market Musical Chairs, INTC Marks Turning Point? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Toby_Connor

INTC beat earnings yesterday and this morning the market is loving it.  Cramer is wildly bullish.  BUY, BUY, BUY!

Unfortunately INTC has a history of marking turning points.  Let's just say that buying the gap up on earnings hasn't been kind in the short term.  Buying when INTC has closed at new 52 week highs the day they report has led to losing trades three days later every time.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Stocks Sell Now, Buy Later the ABCs of Short Selling / Stock-Markets / Learning to Invest

By: Casey_Research

By Jake Weber, Editor, The Casey Report writes: The catch phrases “Buy low, sell high” and “The market fluctuates” are probably the two most frequently used clichés of the investment world. The latter statement is hardly astute, and the former far easier said than done. What both of these simplistic ideas overlook is a third concept largely ignored by the investing public, “Sell now, buy later.”

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Freaky Thursday - Foreclosures and China GDP Hit Records / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: PhilStockWorld

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." - Thomas Jefferson

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Stock Market Volume is Even Weaker Than Your Think, Danger Protect Yourself! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Money_Morning

Shah Gilani writes: Conventional investing wisdom tells us that when stocks rally on low stock market volume, traders perceive that lack of widespread participation as an indicator of the market's future vulnerability.

And as torrid as this rally in U.S. stock prices has been, the lack of trading volume has been a consistent cause for concern.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

S&P 500 Stocks Uptrend With Expanding Voume / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Piazzi

Volume expands for two days in a row!

Uber bears have had  two main arguments against the advance. They have constantly been harping on on sentiment being bullish and volume being absent.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Stock Market Overbought? No One Cares... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Jack_Steiman

Come on! You have to sit there shaking your head saying this can't be happening. When negative divergences exist it's bad enough. When you throw in the now 80 RSI on the daily charts along with 70+ on the weekly charts, it's just not logical for this market to have days such as it did today with the Nasdaq leading in a fashion a real healthy market should.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

S&P 500 Stock Market Trends Forecast for April 2010 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Hans_Wagner

This is a monthly chart for the S&P 500 showing 20 years of performance. Since this index is the one used by professional traders, it is important to understand how it is performing. This chart is also excellent at defining the longer-term trends for the market.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Stock Market Top, Day Traders 2.0 Will Tank Your IRA / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Paul_Lamont

A constant theme in the Investment Analysis Report has been to expect the market to move in the opposite direction of the positions of day traders. This has proven successful with regards to the Japanese Yen, the U.S. dollar and the Treasury Bond. Therefore, we were very interested in the New York Times article Day Traders 2.0. We expect that day traders, who are now buying stocks, are again on the wrong side of the trade. 

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Tracking Stock Market Cycles with Long Wave Dynamics and Theory 144 / Stock-Markets / Cycles Analysis

By: David_Knox_Barker

In the 1920s Russian economist Nikolai Kondratieff discovered that international free market capitalism experiences regular boom and bust cycles, he called them long waves. Investors and traders commonly view the long wave as an obscure unproven theory, without profitable application to modern financial markets. Growing evidence suggests that such an assessment of the long wave is a costly error, for both investors and traders.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Is It Time To Short The S&P500 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Guy_Lerner

A real headwind for the markets -now and in the past - has been when the trends of gold, crude oil, and yields on the 10 year Treasury are strong and rising.