Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Saturday, November 21, 2009
Year-End Investment Profit Parachute Strategy / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
“The end of an empire always comes when the currency is destroyed.”Congressman, Dr. Ron Paul, November 9, 2007
““That probably has to be a basket," Strauss-Kahn said of the eventual replacement for the dollar. "In a globalized world there is no domestic solution," he told a forum…
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Stock Market Rydex Timers Persistence / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
Figure 1 is a daily chart of the S&P500 with the amount of assets in the Rydex Money Market Fund in the lower panel. This value is now at its lowest point since the rally began in March, 2009.
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Obama in China Opening the Doors for Wall Street, Nothing More / Stock-Markets / China
Barack Obama took Hu Jintao to task this morning, scolding the dejected-looking Chinese leader at a press conference held in Beijing. Obama delivered one ferocious jab after another, claiming that China's dollar-peg has cost the US millions of high-paying manufacturing jobs while creating gigantic trade imbalances which have destabilized the global economy and thrust the world into severe economic contraction.
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Stock Market Some Selling... Should Be More...Nothing Terrible / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
A lateral range is simply that, a lateral range. It frustrates. It's annoying. The bulls want things to break out and the bears want things to break down. The bulls have had the best of it for sure and we have come oh so close many times to making that breakout move. We were on the cusp once again and once again the bears came in at the very top of those wedges and took the market down, especially the technology stocks. Those are the stocks that are most overbought and to be blunt, most frothy thus they took the biggest hit.
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Recovery Rally in Ultra Short S&P 500 Proshares SDS / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
This is an extraordinary chart picture from the high in the UltraShort S&P 500 ProShares (NYSE: SDS) at 118.24 (3/06/09) into this week's low at 35.50. The most salient feature is the fact that RSI momentum hit its most oversold level on 8/04 at 45.37, and thereafter, each successive lower price low has been accompanied by a higher low in the RSI. Each one of the divergences produced a potent rally, but none of the rallies has been able to hurdle its prior peak.
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Dow and NASDAQ Stock Indices Ready for Major Reversal? / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
It may surprise you as to which indices have had the most comeback from the lows seen in March. In today's video we take a close look at both the Dow and NASDAQ indices.
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Is the S&P Stock Market Index About to Plunge or Headed Higher? / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
In my latest video I hope to answer those questions and show you what I think could happen to this market in the near-term.
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Traders Holiday Giveway $5,000 Up for Grabs / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
INO invites you to enter the “Trader’s Blog Holiday Giveaway.” Enter for your chance to win one of twelve prizes, worth over $5,000.00 total to be given away.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Central Bankers Blowing Bubbles in Global Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Quantitative Easing
The Swiss franc is counted among the top-5 reserve currencies in the world, alongside the US-dollar, the Euro, the British pound, and the Japanese yen. The Swiss franc holds this top distinction, even though the Swiss economy does not find its place among the top five economies of the world. Instead, its annual output of $488-billion of goods and services ranks as the world’s 22nd largest.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Stock Market Rydex Market Timers Buying the Dips / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
The Rydex market timers are buying the dip to an extreme degree.
Figure 1 is a daily chart of the S&P500 with the amount of assets in the Rydex Money Market Fund in the lower panel.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Stock Market Indices Rally From Early Losses to Close Nearly Flat / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
The indices managed to come back again in the afternoon to close just beneath the flatline and positive on the OEX. But it was a generally narrowly mixed picture at the close.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Stock Market Good Selling.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
If you're still bullish overall as I am, although nothing out of hand, then today is what you wanted to see. There was a chance for a lot more selling than we saw based on two very poor economic reports that came out pre-market. A very low number of new home buyers. 80,000 shy to be exact (520,000 vs 600,000 expected). Also, a higher than expected Consumer Price Index (CPI) (cost of prices to consumers) at 0.3 vs 0.2 expected. Both numbers poor. Each one by themselves is enough to take a market down hard when it's right at resistance and overbought on the daily and short-term charts. (I was even a little cautious and that’s why there’s only one position, Anadarko Petroleum (APC), in our model portfolio.)
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Stock Market Negative RSI Divergence Problem / Stock-Markets / Technical Analysis
What is a Negative RSI Divergence and why should you care?
A Negative RSI Divergence is a condition where the underlying stock or index is moving higher, while the Relative Strength is moving lower.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Stock Market Consolidation Continues...Bullish Overall Action.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
Once again, with the market so close to breaking out, the bears could not take this market down appreciably. Oh, not for lack of effort. That's for sure as the bears tried all day to take things down, but could never gain any steam or momentum. Every bout of selling was met with some type of buying, if not just enough to keep things over 1100 on the S&P 500. Not enough to blast up and out but enough to keep the status quo.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Revisiting Three Stages of Stocks Bear Market Rally, Right on Schedule / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
When someone says, “it’s different this time,” what happens next is rarely surprising.
We know it’s never different this time.
The thing is though it takes a bit of time to remember that.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Just Sell Something, Please! / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
The act of selling cannot be underestimated. Selling is just as important as any other decision (i.e., buying or money management) involved in trading, but it seems to get less attention in the world of market punditry. I guess it is just better for the ego to say, "I was there. I bought XYZ stock at the bottom tick." However, a buy recommendation is only good if you sell some time later at a profit, and of course, we want that trip from the buy to the time we sell to be accompanied by a tolerable draw down.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Goldman Sachs Betting on Derivatives Collapse Sparked Financial Crash? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
Earlier this month, I detailed 25 US commercial banks that had trillions (with a “T”) of dollars’ worth of exposure to derivatives on their balance sheets. At the time, I stated that even if 4% of the notional value of these derivatives was “at risk” and only 10% of that 4% went bad, that you would wipe out the total equity at the five large US banks.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Stock Market Starts the Week with a Sharp Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
The markets were up again in a very sharp rally to start the week. The day started out with a gap up and a very strong rally that took them to new 2009 highs. They then backed and filled for a few hours and then made nominal new highs above that, reaching 1814 and change on the Nasdaq 100 and close to 1114 on the S&P 500. Then a quick sharp sell off ensued, but in the last 20 minutes they snapped back to close positive.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Stock Market Driving Us All Nuts... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
You don't want to short a market in a confirmed up trend. At least not very often. I mean, why go against the trend in place. For the most part, this will just bring about bad results. On the other hand, as we trade closer to the top of the range, the market doesn't seem to want to explode up and out either. You do have to hand it to the bulls overall though. Even though they can't seem to break away from S&P 500 1100, they are keeping the pressure on the bears seemingly day after day. Like a boxer who doesn't have the power to knock out his opponent but who wins the fight by jabbing his opponent in to submission.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, November 16, 2009
Dow Trading Triggers Quick Update / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
Simon asks : > Dow hit 10425, what's next ?
Its not my intention to turn The Market Oracle into a short-term trading signals site. However as you asked -
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