Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Friday, September 25, 2009
Stock Market Dip Brings Out the Buyers / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment
Yesterday's mini sell off has brought out the dip buyers. At least this is what we can infer from our Rydex market timers.
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Stock Market Looks For More Down Side, Rimm Slaughtered On Earnings / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
We had a nice one day plus pullback from yesterday's highs. 200 Dow points from high to low. Nice selling when we suddenly ran into the 20-day exponential moving average on the S&P 500 at 1043 (1045 low today).
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Stock Market Rally Mission Accomplished / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
Now that the stock market has moved over 50% higher in the past 6 months, there are two words that would best describe where we are now: "mission accomplished". Of course, we all remember President George W. Bush in the early months of the Iraq War standing on the deck of a Navy ship with those two words emblazoned on a banner in the background. Little did we know, that "mission accomplished" really meant mission just getting started. In any case, I use those words because the Federal Reserve and Treasury have engineered a recovery and in particular, a stock market recovery, that has brought prices back to levels seen in early October, 2008 when Lehman Brothers collapsed sending the world economy into a tailspin (sic: sorry words of the "media").
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Canada the Best Investment in North America, Not the United States / Stock-Markets / Canadian Stock Market
Martin Hutchinson writes: The U.S. stock market has run up magnificently in the last six months. The U.S. economy has begun to recover, but its performance has fallen short of expectations.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Stocks Bull or Bear Market, Case for a Bull Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market
Is this a bull or bear market? After a rally of more than 50% by the S&P 500, some investors are debating the question of bull market versus bear market. Moreover, those of us who have benefited from this rally are taking the prudent step to evaluate whether this is a bull or bear market.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Five Hot New International ETFs To Consider / Stock-Markets / Exchange Traded Funds
Today, much of the world’s economic growth is outside of the U.S. So for now at least, many (and maybe most) of the compelling investment opportunities are outside the U.S., too.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
140th Year Anniversary of Black Friday 1869 Banking Panic, History Repeating? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
Today is the 140 Year Anniversary of the original Black Friday on September 24th, 1869. Since then the word ‘Black’ has been used to describe any day that the stock market, currencies or financial markets have crashed. There have been many, many such crashes but the one that birthed the term happened on this day 140 years ago.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Stock Market, A Peter Pan Market / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
Only in Never Never Land can age and gravity be defied. In the real world such ideas may be described as “escapist fantasies”.
There has been much debate in recent weeks regarding whether US Equities have entered a new Primary Bull Trend or whether we have been witnessing a bounce in a Primary Bear Trend.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Overbought Stock Market Corrects on Positive Fed Statement / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
The market has been very overbought for quite some time. Sometimes it gets ridiculous to be blunt. Staying at levels of overbought you just don't see very often. We can see that, not only on the index charts, but on many regular stock charts such as Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG) to name just a few. Both of those issues printed, on the daily charts, RSI's just under 80 today. That's just silly. These readings can't go on forever.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Stock and Commodity ETF Funds DIA, UUP, GLD, SLV and XLE Momentum Shift / Stock-Markets / Exchange Traded Funds
Today we had a reversal day for the broad market, us dollar, precious metals and oil. The market is over extended. We have seen the market rally 20% since the July low.
Inter-market analysis is important to understand because everything is related in some way. The next month will be very interesting with the US dollar trying to rally, which will put pressure on precious metals, stocks and commodities.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
The Global Financial Crisis Explained- Credit and Credibility Part2 / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
Continued from Part1 - Consequently, the ETR believes a return to the gold standard, or some rules-based derivation thereof, is highly unlikely without either a grassroots US taxpayer revolt or an utter collapse of the fiat dollar precipitated by global consensus to end its use as the world’s reserve currency. Neither appears likely at this juncture. The groundswell of popular dissent needed to achieve the former seems to have been largely bred out of Americans over the last generation, replaced by a distracted, self-absorbed apathy that seeks easy salvation in a president that emulates the wrong Roosevelt: what we need is a trust-buster carrying a big stick, not an interventionist appeaser masquerading as an eco-warrior.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
The Global Financial Crisis Explained- Credit and Credibility / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
Richard Karn/ETR writes: Introduction: By early November of 2008, the Emerging Trends Report (ETR) had been inundated with so many enquiries regarding the viability of our themes in light of the global financial crisis that we embarked on a review and re-evaluation of all nine of our themes in this fluid and decidedly hostile environment. Eight months on, this book-length tenth report is the result.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Stocks Bear Market Pattern and the Battle for Financial Sphere Hegemony / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
PROPHECY -
Or plausible consideration of cyclical relationships, and fractal repetition
If one embraces the notion that cycles exist within economies and financial markets, and that, progressions within cycles are fractal and of various size and degree, one must then conclude there is a dynamic level of general repetition continuously occurring across various timeframes. The footprints of such fractal repetitions record themselves continuously via data points plotted across the axis of price and time. They do so through recorded price chart data gathered throughout the course of history.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Stock Market Rally, Time to be a Contrarian? / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
Claus Vogt writes: Many successful investors and speculators, like Warren Buffett and George Soros, are said to be contrarians. But what does this really mean? And is it true?
Let’s have a look at the concept of contrarianism to find out whether it can give us some guidance during these exciting times …
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
The Great Fed Financed U.S. Dollar Decline and Stock Market Rally of 2009 / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power." Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd and longest-serving US president
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Stock Market Stuck in the Gap... / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
We made a nice move a few days back to get through the bottom of that 1060 to 1080 gap on the S&P 500. We are hanging out above 1060 but are unable to this point to take out 1080 thus we're literally stuck in the gap. A tough place to get much volatility.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Beware of Negative Stock Market Divergences / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
Last week, I spoke about Divergences and their importance.
Some technicians use a 30 day Momentum indicator in order to spot divergences. Although it is not one of my favorites, it does offer a divergence warning for investors.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Stock Market "Buy The Dip" Mentality Fully Entrenched / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets
Anyone following the markets knows there is a huge underlying bid.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
SPX Stocks Index Topping or Breaking Out? / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
While there certainly could be a top here I think that to call one at this point would be pure speculation and guesswork. Picking a top is not advisable. There is some evidence that we are seeing the acceleration of the bull trend rather than its fading.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Wealthbuilder Quarterly Stock Market Brief and Stock Pick / Stock-Markets / Dow Theory
The monthly charts of the Dow Industrials and the Dow Transports are most revealing as they allow one immediately get a long term perspective on the current market situation. The Dow 30 hit an intraday high in October of 2007 touching 14,198. The Dow 20 got there in May 2008 hitting 5,536.
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