Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Stock Market Buyers Beware / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Toby_Connor
The rally off the February bottom is now going on 32 days. This is probably not the best time to chase stocks higher. I’ve been saying for a couple of weeks that the market needs to take a breather, preferably before earnings season as it would then be setup for a strong rally through April.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Upmove in UltraLong SPY / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The remarkable series of higher lows in the ProShares UltraLong SPY (NYSE: SSO) remains intact this morning, despite the volatility in FX and precious metals. Yesterday’s pullback low was 41.73, while today’s low so far is at 41.93.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
The Stocks Bull Bear Market Report / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Steven_Vincent
BullBear traders have been long US equities (with the exception of a brief 2 day interlude) since the February 5th bottom. We continue to hold our long positions with an eye towards a mid-April top.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Stock Market Bulls Steps Up Again..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
This has been one of those bull markets that constantly make you earn your winnings. It has forced us all to play in to the teeth of some very overbought conditions. If we had followed conventional overbought rules we would have missed out on quite a bit of nice plays. Normally, when RSI's hit 70 across the board on the daily charts, that's it for the short-term. That rule applies in almost all normal bull markets. Not this one.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
U.S. Economy, Banking Sector and Gold, Houdini Lives! / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Steve_Betts
Un giorno diverrai cenere ed ombra, un nome e non piu. (One day you will become shadows and ashes, a name and nothing more.) Aulo Persio Flacco
The banking system continues to suffer setbacks and the FDIC continues to absorb the mistakes. On Friday they announced the closure of seven more failed institutions, bring the total up to 37 for the year and well ahead of last year’s total of 21 thru March 31st. Here are the new victims:
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Stocks Stealth Bull Market Trend Forecast Into May 2010 / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market
By: Nadeem_Walayat
This in depth analysis seeks to update the stock market forecast for 2010 (Stocks Stealth Bull Market Trend Forecast For 2010 ) as included in the Inflation Mega-Trend Ebook (Download Now). This analysis specifically seeks to conclude towards a trend forecast for the next 2 months into Mid May 2010.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Stock Market Dow Theory Contrived Buy Signal or Paranoia? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Brian_Bloom
Am I being paranoid? Was the spike in the Dow Jones Industrial Index – which took it to a new high thereby resulting in a Dow Theory buy signal – contrived?
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Five Major Stock Market Myths Exposed! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Larry_Edelson
I’ve covered some of the market myths I’m about to tell you about on occasion in the past. And I’ve wanted to consolidate them into a single article for quite some time now.
But my colleague and internationally-respected analyst Robert Precther beat me to the punch, in an article he recently published for his subscribers.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Investors Beware of Eurozone Plans for Greek Debt Bailout / Stock-Markets / Euro-Zone
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: An old proverb dating back to the Trojan War tells us to "beware of Greeks bearing gifts."
Today, with the fate of the European euro and perhaps even the entire Eurozone region hanging in the balance - and Greece needing a bailout to avoid default on its massive public debt - a more-appropriate warning might be: "Beware of Greeks seeking gifts."
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Which Way Emerging Market Equities? / Stock-Markets / Emerging Markets
By: Prieur_du_Plessis
With investors’ risk appetite emboldened by the prospects of an economic recovery, emerging-market equities (+104.0%) have outperformed mature-market equities (+73.3%) by a considerable margin since the commencement of the cyclical bull market in early March 2009. But these numbers camouflage the fact that the past six months have been characterized by essentially a sideways movement in relative performance. This raises the question as to how investors should place their bets over the next few months.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
The Most Critical Rule for Investing Going Forward / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Graham_Summers
Few commentators understand the manner in which 2008 changed everything, and I mean EVERYTHING about the investing world. This was no mere Financial Crisis or Deflationary Collapse… this was THE game changer, the event that altered the entire investing landscape so that virtually every and all relationships between various investment classes was thrown out the window.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Who’s the REAL Dumb Money? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Graham_Summers
I apologize for being out of touch. Typically I make every effort to publish an essay every day, but the last few weeks have been extremely busy on the back-end of the website.
As you can see, I’m in the midst of a total website overhaul. Right now we’re about 80% done, but I’ve got a lot a new content to add. So don’t be alarmed if some of the sections are blank right now. They’ll all be filled in with hard, hitting in-depth research soon.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Fed Stock Market Capital Infusions On Options Expiration Weeks / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Graham_Summers
Options Expiration= Ramp Job
Well, it’s another options expiration week and that means, yes you guess it, ramp job time! Wall Street loves options expiration week because it’s that wonderful time of the month when they can move entire stock markets any which way they like just to make sure they shred the options traders and close out their own positions at a profit.
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Raging Bull in Greed and Abject Stupidity / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Charlie_Tarango
We hear many talk of “Bull” and “Bear” Markets. But one thing seems to be settled: This “Bull” is either “Secular” or “Cyclical”- but it is a “Bull”. Take your pick, right ?
Yes indeed, there is a “Bull Market” – and it is raging. But it is a “Bull Market” in Greed and Abject Stupidity. The “Bear Market” is in Common Sense and Logic. And it is reaching New Lows – we’ve solidly taken out the 2007 Lows.
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Stock Market Great Reversal And Yes, Overbought Again..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
No one who is bullish would complain about today's great reversal off the lows which allowed the market to close green across the board. In fact, the S&P 500 made a perfect, and I mean Perfect, back test of the 1151 breakout with an 1152 print just after the opening bell gap down. From that point forward those determined bulls made an amazing run higher throughout the rest of the day to finish with decent gains on solid reversal volume.
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Stock Market, An Up and Down Day / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Steve_Betts
It’s been an interesting start to the week as the Dow opened lower and looked like it could fall even more. Now the Dow is up 45 points. Meanwhile the US dollar rallied all the way up top 81.34, just above strong resistance at 81.32, only to fall back down into negative territory by noon time. Then there was gold! As the US dollar rallied, gold fell down to test strong support at 1,090.10, only to bounce back later in the morning. At 1:15 pm EST the April gold is trading at 1,104.00 down 3.00 for the session.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Gold and Stocks, When it Breaks, It's Going Somewhere In a Hurry... / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: J_Derek_Blain
Gold and silver are both in a fairly tight consolidated trading range over the past several weeks, keeping both metals bound within a compressed psychological battle between mid-term bulls and mid-term bears.
Monday, March 22, 2010
What Health Care Plan and A Rising U.S. Dollar Mean For Financial Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Mike_Paulenoff
While the new health care plan could have negative implications for business, for taxes, for the deficit, for interest rates and so on, the S&P 500 has gone straight up since its Feb 5 low. I don’t know what it’s been discounting, but it couldn’t have been discounting the negativity implied by the health care plan. Instead, this rally has to be discounting something positive, whatever that may be.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Wall Street Redux / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Captain_Hook
There has been no shortage of mainstream media coverage regarding the public’s growing outrage with Wall Street and its now unparalleled lust for money and power (greed), with everything from Matt Taibbi’s comprehensive accounting of the growing scandal entitled Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle, to the hollow calls from politicians to rein in these apparently misguided people, heavy on the sarcasm here. And with the growing Tea Party Movement and the success of independent candidates like Ron Paul aiming at the next Presidency, you had better believe the bureaucracy (the bureaucracy behind the two party system that really runs the country) is concerned about this growing outrage, where in the balance the final straw that ultimately breaks the camel’s back might have been thrown with this past year’s record bonus packages – this while main street suffers and Washington’s disregard for this suffering is evident.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Emerging Markets on Buying Spree / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010
By: Frank_Holmes
It’s getting to be common news for a Chinese company (usually with links to the government) to buy a foreign commodities producer to secure supplies of coal, oil, iron ore and other assets to fulfill the country’s ambitious growth plans.