Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Thursday, December 31, 2009
All Fiat Currencies Will Continue to Fall Against Gold / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
The rally in the dollar and the problems for other currencies prove what we have been saying and that is all currencies will continue to fall vs. gold. The impetus for the dollar rally originates as usual with the government and is added to by the disarray in the economies worldwide, particularly in Europe. One of the things central banks have never learned is that financial engineering only works for a short duration, after that the problem worsens. Even the world’s strongest currencies, the Swiss, Canadian, Aussie and Norwegian, are only holding their own versus gold. The reason why is almost all central banks have done the same thing and that is create money and credit recklessly at the behest of the US government.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Vote for the Best Financial Markets Analysis of 2009 / Stock-Markets / Market Oracle Analysts
The Market Oracle has for another year endeavoured to provide our readership with the highest quality of analysis. Now you have the opportunity to help us evaluate analysis during 2009 that hit the nail on the head. Our aim is to present Master Forecaster Awards to the Top authors voted as the most accurate forecasters of 2009, which will also help readers navigate to current and future analysis during 2010.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
2010 Perils and Potential Profits as Hyperinflation Nears / Stock-Markets / HyperInflation
To see 2010’s Potential we must first consider the Main Perils.
“Hyperinflation Nears…
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Marc Faber on What to Expect for Financial Markets 2010 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
The INVESTMENT MAGAZINE reports about Investment Guru Marc Fabers's vision of 2010
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs Trillions Deep In Derivatives or Dumbed-Down Reporting? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
On December 29, 2009 The New York Post [josh.kosman@nypost.com] published an article titled, Deep in derivatives, where scribe Josh Kosman ‘took-a-shot’ at explaining the ABSURDITY of the bind boggling derivatives positions amassed by financial behemoths such as J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs. In an attempt to explain how dangerously systemically-interconnected derivatives makes ALL banks, Kosman began;
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
2009 a Bullish Year for Stock and Commodity markets, 2010 Debt Monster Looms / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
Happy New Year.
The year is drawing to a close. And what a year it’s been, filled with twists and turns, some surprises, thrills, excitement, history and some disappointments too, all topped off with gold skyrocketing in its biggest monthly rise in a decade.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Stock Market, Commodity and Dollar Forecasts for 2010 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
Predicting the future is not easy, but at the end of last year I made five for 2009. How’d I do? Pretty darn good if I say so myself.
In this column, I’ll review my 2009 market predictions and more importantly, tell you what’s in store for 2010 and how to play the markets.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Low Volume Stocks Bear Market Rally and the Real Estate Bust 2010 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
One of the most basic technical rules says that sound stock market rallies are accompanied by high and rising volume. By contrast, bear market rallies are characterized by low and falling activity.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Stock Market Trend Signs of Weakness / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
With the market up 6 days in a row, Tuesdays weakness could be signs of more selling to come.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Stock Market Selling To Come, Things Still Bullish Overall / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
Tonight I want to over multiple time frame charts with all of you to show you why buying anything new on the long side here is not the best of ideas unless you can scalp plays within hours. Not easy for the majority of you to do I know. I will be discussing the 60-minute time frame charts along with those critical daily and even weekly charts to show you what has set up and why taking on new longs right now is dangerous at best. Let me be clear that I do NOT think this market is going to get killed. Not one bit. I think the selling to come will be a wonderful opportunity to make great money going long. I just want all of you to be ready for a tough market in terms of upside in the very near future.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Are Stock Market Sentiment Indicators Useless? / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment
As we have chronicled, investor sentiment has not been a very useful tool for timing the market the past 6 months. The "Dumb Money" indicator has been extremely bullish since the end of July, yet the S&P500 has tacked on - albeit begrudgingly - about 14% since that time. Looking at the sentiment picture from the perspective of company insiders, insider selling has exceeded insider buying by historic amounts since May, and company insiders continue to sell significantly despite the strong gains.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Top Contrarian Investor’s Big Bet for 2010 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
If you don’t believe crisis creates opportunity, just ask David Tepper.
In a recent Wall Street Journal feature - Fund Boss Made $7 Billion in the Panic - all of Tepper’s “secret” strategies were revealed for all to see.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
U.S. Dollar, Gold Stocks and Inflation 2010 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
In his most recent work, Martin Armstrong postulates that because of accelerating inflation, possibly leading to hyperinflation, a falling dollar ($), cycles associated with his Economic Confidence Model (ECM), and a move away from immovable assets by the investing public, stocks are destined to hit new highs as measured by the various indices around the world, and that such a move could begin in earnest at any time. And while he does allow for an alternative scenario, one where stocks could most pessimistically test the March lows in 2011 (an ECM low), using the Dow for discussion purposes, according to Martin a more likely scenario is that allowing for volatility, 2010 should be characterize by a trading range between 12,500 and 8,800, with new highs possible as early as 2011, the inverse of the possible low discussed above.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
John Hussman Says Stock Market Bulls Dancing on the Edge of a Cliff / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
Inquiring minds are reading Clarity and Valuation by John Hussman.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Stock Market Timers Expecting End Of Year Bounce / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
The Rydex market timers are betting heavily that an end of the year bounce will materialize as the bullish and leveraged assets now exceed the bearish and leveraged assets by more than 2 to 1. See figure 1, a daily chart of the S&P500 with the ratio of bullish and leveraged assets to bearish and leveraged in the lower panel.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Stock Market Remains in Buy Mode Going into Year End / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
Its a time for reflection...
First of all, Id like to wish you all a happy holiday season. For those of you who have been with me for a decade now, we sure have shared some interesting times, both good and bad, as we try to analyze this living entity we call the market.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Stock Market Forecast 2010 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
Jon D. Markman writes: I have been surprised to see the air thick with pessimism in recent weeks. Not so much the stock market, where the sentiment indexes show the bulls dominating the bears by slightly more than 52%. But among the general public.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Stock Market Seasonality Versus Overbought..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
This is normally a very strong time of the year for the retail buying crowd. The market drifts higher even if the conditions aren't exactly perfect. This is what we currently have going on. The daily charts and the 60-minute charts are overbought. Intra day they were really at extremes of overbought, especially the 60-minute short-term time framers. RSI readings at 70 or higher with stochastics 90 or higher normally equates to a rather sizeable pullback.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Covered Calls Options Trading Strategy / Stock-Markets / Options & Warrants
The basic covered call is a relatively simple strategy. The owner of a security sells the right to have their security purchased at a predetermined price in the future in return for money now. If the security price does not fall over the life of the option, the call writer will keep the premium collected when the call was sold. The call writers profit is limited in exchange for the premium.
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Monday, December 28, 2009
Marc Faber Discusses U.S. Dollar, Stocks, Inflation 2010 Video / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, talks with Bloomberg's Deirdre Bolton and Jon Erlichman about the outlook for the U.S. dollar. Faber also discusses money printing and inflation.
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