Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Stock Market Remains in Sell Mode until 28th Jan / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
What Do I Do?Its times like these that make it very clear...
When people ask me what this service is all about and what I do, I tell them that I am a Market Timer. Most people think of financial sites and analysts and measuring financials, etc. Im about data, indicators, formulas and charts. I look for patterns and trends and try to give you the best advice and other tools to improve your success. The more right I am, the better my tools are, the better you do. Win/Win...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
What Level of New Highs is Historically Related to Stock Market Corrections and What is the Current Level? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
Interesting question isn't it? If you watch the daily count of New York Stock Exchange "New Highs" some very interesting historical information appears.
For example ... below is a two and a half year chart of the New Highs compared to how the S&P 500 trended during that time.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Stock Market Quiet Inside Day / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
Take a stock such as Apple (AAPL), which had a very nice day. Or did it! Great earnings for sure and rewarded for those earnings. It opened at 205.95 and closed at 205.94 after printing nearly 214.00 intraday. It actually printed a doji and a black candle and on a big move like that you don't want to see the sellers catch up so late in the day and print that black candle. The last hour did a lot of damage. We saw that type of reversal down on all the index charts and thus they too didn't print very pretty candles. Does this late action negate the better looking 60-minute charts that are out there? We are about to find out aren't we.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Stock Market Investors 2010 Risk Reward Focus, Calm Seas, Blood in the Water / Stock-Markets / Risk Analysis
The picture below is a little cheesy but I think it depicts the way many investors feel right now as they sit isolated, feeling trapped and abandoned. They may have listened to the fear mongers and pulled their pensions or are thinking about it, maybe they fired their advisor and are cuddled up with their cash wondering what to do next.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
The Chinese Interest Rates Torture Continues For Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
Monday brought some respite, as hopes of a reappointment for Bernanke grew and Greece managed to ‘successfully’ launch its 5-year bond. Are risk takers out of the woods then? The jury is still out. Asian equities sold off overnight again, on yet more fears about tighter policy in China (see below). Greece of course managed to raise €8bn, with the book even reaching €25bn. This comes as a relief, suggesting the country is still able to fund itself. However, such success has a price – Greece had to pay mid swap +350bp, or 30bp more than the price of its exiting July 2015 issue. Still, this should help calm fears of a Greek default.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Economic Depression Wealth Preservation, Investing, and Prepping in 2010 / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010
The trend going forward during this economic depression is getting back to basics. We often discuss ‘prepping’ as a way to protect your family in the event of an unforeseen catastrophe (natural or man-made). Recently, we’ve seen more financial analysts and advisers recommend shifting from traditional investments like stocks, bonds, CD’s and money market accounts, to tangible assets that will gain value regardless of what stock and bond markets do.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
MSCI Emerging Market Index Fund Key Price Levels / Stock-Markets / Emerging Markets
Figure 1 is a weekly chart of the i-Shares MSCI Emerging Market Index Fund. This is the third largest ETF in the market with $39 billion of assets.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Stock Market Investors Fooled by Talk of Economic Recovery / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
What a week we’ve just witnessed. In 3 days the entire gains in equities in 2010 have been wiped out. The Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 all fell into the red for the year to date. The gold price dropped to its’ lowest in a month. And this all happened at a time when investor confidence had started the week at a 27 month high according to the VIX index…
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Is the Stock Market in Trouble? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
Hello everyone this is Adam Hewison. I just got back from New Zealand and Australia and when I returned from "down under" and studied the charts this past weekend, I can see that the major indices have not fared well while I was away.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Stock Market Trend Tracking the 45 Day Cycle / Stock-Markets / Cycles Analysis
Through my outlooks in recent years, I have often pointed out that the most dominant cycle in US stocks is the nominal 10-week component - which, at the present time, has a current 'expression' of 45 trading days from trough-to-trough.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Stock Market Quiet Inside Day / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
Today's candlestick traded inside of Friday's large down stick and normally that equates to another day of struggling for this market. When a market has trended down for a few or more consecutive days and you get this type of inside stick, you can expect a little more selling in normal times. Apple's (AAPL) earnings tonight could try and turn that tide but normally the market will have a tougher time. Futures are up some after hours based on AAPL so it may be different this time but don't bet on that too much. Nothing will be easy for this market very short term. Those tough and too powerful sentiment readings just haven't been worked off enough to get aggressive with regards to buying stocks.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Stock Market Bullish Harami Candlestick Price Pattern / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
The good news about a hirami is that it is moderately bullish...
http://www.stockbarometer.com/candlesbullish.aspx
Monday, January 25, 2010
Stock Market Breakdown! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
The monthly chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Index below (courtesy BigCharts.com) shows that the Index:
1. has failed to penetrate the falling trend line on the upside, and
2. has broken below the lower boundary of the (typically bearish) rising wedge pattern
Monday, January 25, 2010
Anticipated Stock Market Correction on Not So Hot Bank Earnings and Economic Data / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
We may have gotten our answer posed last week with the thud heard on Wall Street this week; earnings at the banks are not that great and neither is the economic data, giving the equity markets a bad case of the flu! Housing continues in a funk, with starts declining (again), although those looking at the glass half full would say that permits (a leading indicator) rose – potentially providing some good news in the months ahead. Also jumping a bit were initial jobless claims, and more importantly the rise above its 10-week average, potentially ending talk of job gains come the February jobs report.
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Gold, Dollar, China, Important 2010 Q&A / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
Even though it’s very early in the new year, there are some wild market movements and lots of news out of China, which has prompted readers to ask me many questions. So, I’m dedicating today’s issue to those questions — and my answers …
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Rude Awakening For Stock Market Investors 2010 / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
The heyday of the Bush-Obama bailout frenzy is coming to an end.
The bailout’s base of public support, tenuous from the outset, is collapsing.
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Monday, January 25, 2010
How To Trade Bernanke Re-appointment Decision Either way / Stock-Markets / Central Banks
Market commentator Peter Navarro presents the case for firing Ben Bernanke and evaluates different trading strategies depending on whether a Keynesian like Larry Summers or Alan Blinder replaces him versus a new "stable money" Fed chair like John Taylor, Martin Feldstein, or Paul Volcker.
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Stock Market Sentiment Major Change Underway / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment
Let’s talk about sentiment.
Last week was the worst market week since March 2009. Similarly, the three-day decline from Wednesday through Friday was the worst three days since March 2009. The market is now officially in the red for 2010. And the persons we’ve identified as market props (Bernanke, Geithner, etc) are now beginning to come under intense fire for their actions.
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Will the Stock Market Rebound from Last Week's Beating? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
Jon D. Markman writes: Stocks slipped sharply in the past three days as the underlying market weakness we've been highlighting for the past two weeks finally mattered. A number of better-than-expected earnings reports were ignored. Even the successful election of a Republican to one of Massachusetts' two Senate seats, which helped health-care stocks push the market up on Tuesday, wasn't enough.
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Stock Market Downtrend into Key Reversal Date Low of 28th Jan / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
With the market moving sharply lower last week, we have a key reversal date coming soon.
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