Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Stock Market Bullish Harami Candlestick Price Pattern / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Jay_DeVincentis

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

By: Brian_Bloom

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

By: Paul_J_Nolte

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.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Gold, Dollar, China, Important 2010 Q&A / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Larry_Edelson

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 …

Monday, January 25, 2010

Rude Awakening For Stock Market Investors 2010 / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Martin_D_Weiss

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.

Monday, January 25, 2010

How To Trade Bernanke Re-appointment Decision Either way / Stock-Markets / Central Banks

By: Peter_Navarro

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.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Stock Market Sentiment Major Change Underway / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment

By: Graham_Summers

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.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Will the Stock Market Rebound from Last Week's Beating? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: MoneyMorning

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.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Stock Market Downtrend into Key Reversal Date Low of 28th Jan / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Angelo_Campione

With the market moving sharply lower last week, we have a key reversal date coming soon.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Stock Market Outlook and Forecast Into Mid 2010 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Donald_W_Dony

Equity markets have enjoyed a near flawless advance since the March low. Now with the quick retracement last week, many investors are becoming concerned that a steep correction is in the making. It is important to remember that markets typically trade up 1/3rd of the time, down 1/3rd and flat 1/3rd. Models suggest that the probability of a period of horizontal trading is increasing as the bull market moves toward mid-2010.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Stock Market Price Plunge Means Lowering Expectations on Intervening Rallies / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Mike_Paulenoff

Purely from a technical perspective, last week¹s price plunge indicates that significant near-term technical damage was inflicted on the heretofore dominant Mar-Jan uptrend (as viewed in the accompanying S&P 500 chart), and that additional price weakness should be expected into the beginning of February. Furthermore, my intermediate-term cycle work is poised to create headwinds into the end of Q1.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Are Commodities and the Stock Market Dow Index Dead? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Chris_Vermeulen

It was a heart pounding week on Wall Street as traders and investors locked in profits during 2010’s first round of earnings season. While it is normal to see selling of shares after good news hits the market, last weeks melt down was over exaggerated and for good reasons.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Stock Market Heading for Black Monday Crash? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Clive_Maund

On Friday Goldman Sachs and J P Morgan broke down decisively from their Head-and-Shoulders tops, a development that we predicted before the open based in large part on the huge downside volume in these stocks on Thursday. The Put options that we bought in the early trade in GS and JPM soared, some contracts rising by about 50% by the close. This bearish development caused shockwaves to spread through the market which accelerated to the downside late in the day. After 2 days of heavy losses the Precious Metals stocks indices stopped for a breather just above their 200-day moving averages, and closed virtually unchanged on the day.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Stock Market Plunge Wipes Out December and January Gains! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Piazzi

S&P shed 44 points last week, and established a mid-term downtrend.

This is what I wrote regarding the weekly frame in Thursday’s post

There are signs of a correction on the chart, broken uptrend line, rapidly falling RSI, a cross on MACD

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Stock Market Correction, Watch for Bearish Downtrend / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Peter_Navarro

In my previous weekly newsletter, I urged extreme caution in the market until the question of whether the market was at the beginning of a correction had been resolved. This last week, with the American stock market taking its worst set of consecutive losses since bouncing off the March lows, we got our answer. The market is definitely in a correction.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

China Stocks Continue to Lead Financial Markets and Gold Lower / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Douglas_V._Gnazzo

Last week's report started with China's announcement to raise reserve requirements for bank deposits. The news sent markets into a tailspin. China continued this week to lead world markets down.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Stock Market Buy Signal Suggests Early Week Upside Reversal / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Angelo_Campione

The system for the SPY is on a Buy signal 75% Long

Well, what a week! Tuesday started with a rally that took us to the highest close in 16 months and then we finished the week with a loss of over 5%!

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Obama Hits the Banks that Hit Stocks and Commodities, UK Inflation Soars / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010

By: Nadeem_Walayat

The big news story of the week was Obama being shocked into action on the Banks AFTER the bruising election result from Massachusetts, which followed a year of dithering on the financial sector reforms issue. Obama has been a huge disappointment during his first year as the U.S. electorate had CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE rammed down their throats during the campaign, however we have seen very little actual change where even his flag ship health reforms have now basically been put onto the back burner. Perhaps Obama has now CHANGED and he will actually do something that he has long promised to do i.e. to hold the banks to account and real reforms to prevent them from bankrupting the United States. Obama's announcement immediately triggered sharp falls on the stock market which had been ripe for a correction for several weeks, just waiting for the trigger to begin correcting.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Stock Market Investors Remain Poorly Positioned to Weather a Sell Off / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010

By: Guy_Lerner

After notching a high earlier in the week for this rally that started in March, 2009, the S&P500 went on to lose over 5% in 3 trading days. This puts the S&P500 below the November 13, 2009 closing high. In the short term, "everyone" expects the proverbial bounce giving pause to bulls and bears alike, but make no mistake about it, investors remain poorly positioned to weather a sell off.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Protect Your Portfolio From Global Emergencies in Energy, Water, Food, Climate and Debt / Stock-Markets / Investing 2010

By: Sean_Brodrick

The global economy is an amazing study in contradictions. China and India both seem to be booming again, while our economy and nation has some serious problems.

America’s problems include a huge and growing national debt, stubbornly high unemployment, a Congress that is for sale to the highest bidder and more. These problems should continue to weigh on America’s economic recovery, and should steepen any real market correction.