Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Stock Market Rally, This Time Is Different (In Reverse) / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Guy_Lerner
In past articles to explain the price action, I have defined the "this time is different" scenario. For example, at market tops we typically see negative divergences between prices and momentum oscillators that measure price. These negative divergences are indicative of slowing upside momentum and a point where traders are likely to look for the market to rollover. If prices continue to move higher despite the presence of these negative divergences, often times we find investors saying "this time is different" as prices accelerate much higher. Of course, I think the acceleration in prices is due to short covering as traders who where expecting the market to rollover are now forced to cover their positions.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Bob Farrell, 10 Rules to Follow for this Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Valuations
By: Q1_Publishing
There aren’t too many hard and fast rules to be a successful investor.
After all, investing successfully at times requires you to flexible or rigid, take action in a plodding or swift manner, patient or impatient, and it all depends on ever-changing circumstances.
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Stock Markets Bailout Bubble, What's On the Horizon? / Stock-Markets / Global Stock Markets
By: William_R_Thomson
OVERVIEW -
STOCK prices around the world recently hit their highest levels for this year, buoyed by a wave of optimism about prospects for a global economic recovery - only to fall back to a three-month low this week on fresh doubts about the sustainability of that recovery. So, is it 'for real' or is it destined to run out of steam? The Business Times empanelled a team of key experts to answer this critical question, and to tell us whether the world faces a threat of inflation, deflation or stagflation in the coming months. There were mixed views on the prospects for equity markets, but interestingly, everyone on the panel was bullish about gold. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, August 21, 2009
Robert Prechter New Warning on Financial Crisis and Economic Depression / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: EWI
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Stock Markets Another Glass Half Full Day / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: PaddyPowerTrader
A real pick and mix day US data wise yesterday with initial jobless claims unexpectedly rising again, the Philadelphia Fed manufacturing index breaking into positive territory, leading indicators9.24% of all loans are now delinquent rising for the fourth consecutive month and mortgage delinquencies reaching record highs in Q2. . 23% of the mortgages in Florida are now either late on payment or in some part of the foreclosure process.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Watch Your Back on Wall Street, Seriously / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: I remember my first time "getting used" by Wall Street... It was for 500 bucks. But I was disgusted by it. It was in my own firm!
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Stock Market Solid Upside Follow-through / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The indices had a strong follow-through session today to yesterday's late rally. The day started out with a strong move higher, as the indices reached 1614 on the NDX and 1006 on the SPX. They then went into a coiling-type consolidation pattern for several hours, consolidating bullishly, and then broke out in the last hour, reaching the session highs with about 25-30 minutes to go. A slight pullback into the close brought them off the highs.
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
ETFs Investing for Inflation or Deflation / Stock-Markets / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Money_and_Markets
Ron Rowland writes: Which will it be: Inflation or deflation? And what can you do to protect yourself in either scenario?
My answer to the first question is BOTH! I think we’ll see waves of inflation as well as periods of deflation in the next decade. The bigger question is the timing.
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Time of Truth for Financial Stocks XLF / Stock-Markets / Articles
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The time of truth for the Financial Select Sector ETF (NYSE: XLF), which is bumping up against key near-term resistance at 14.30-14.42. If that level is hurdled, it likely will unleash additional strength that propels prices to new highs above 14.60 – towards my optimal target at 15.00/30. Conversely, inability of the XLF to hurdle and sustain above 14.30-14.42 followed by a decline that breaks 14.00 will argue that the larger corrective process off of the Aug 6th high at 14.60 remains viable and points to 13.20-13.00 prior to completion.
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
China Stock Market Panic, Investors Don't Ignore! / Stock-Markets / Global Stock Markets
By: Money_Morning
Money Morning - With China’s Shanghai Composite Index (SSE) now down about 20% from its Aug. 4 peak - a decline punctuated by a 4.3% drop yesterday (Wednesday) - the Red Dragon’s stock market is technically now in bear-market territory.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
The Next Financial and Economic Crisis in the Making / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Money_and_Markets
Claus Vogt writes: From time to time it’s necessary to get a bird’s-eye view of the financial markets. And given the market’s recent run-up, such a moment has arrived.
Let’s start with a review of what has happened up until now to get a better understanding of what will likely happen next …
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Corporate Insiders Selling Stocks , Extremely Bearish / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Bob_Bronson
We are in very good company with our bearish outlook for the stock market. Insiders at companies in the aggregate are still unloading their companies’ stock at the most rapid clip at least since October 2007, when the stock market peaked and the current, as-yet unfinished, second downleg of the Supercycle Bear Market started. (endnote 1)
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Legendary Investors Bet Big on the Inevitable Inflation / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
By: Q1_Publishing
The most powerful people in the financial world are doing anything they can to prevent it.
Central bankers fear it. CEO’s hate it. Banks get destroyed by it.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Waiting for SDS ProShares UltraShort SPY to Fill the Upgap / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Let's notice that this morning's early weakness in the major equity market ETFs (SPY, etc) popped the ProShares UltraShort SPY (NYSE: SDS) to test last Friday''s high at 47.80 (today's high was 47.66 so far). But that is where the SDS ran out of steam, and since has reversed all the way back down to probe yest.'s low at 46.45 (so far this AM's low is 46.59), all of which leaves behind a wide three day range of about $1.20.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Stock and Financial Markets Walking a Dangerous Inflation/ Deflation Tightrope / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009
By: Joseph_Russo
Timing, Perspective... When it comes to engaging financial markets, timing is everything. When and where does one enter or exit, what are his or her objectives, and what frame of reference does one use to make such decisions. Answers to the above are essential prior to committing speculative funds against any given timeframe or set of objectives one may consider.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Grab Your Shorts, the Stock Market Correction Has Begun / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Graham_Summers
As I’ve noted in previous essays, this stock market rally has come much too far, much too fast. All told the S&P 500 is up over 48% since the March lows. This is unprecedented in the post-WWII era.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Stock Market Indices Snapback, though Resistance Repels Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Harry_Boxer
The markets snapped back today and failed to follow-through to the downside, but at the end of the day, despite the rally, the indices did nothing more than retest the resistance zones and breakdown points.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
How to Profit as Consumers Tighten Their Purse Strings / Stock-Markets / Recession 2008 - 2010
By: MoneyWeek
If you're expecting a brief round of belt-tightening before things return to normal, you'll be disappointed. It's time to get defensive, says David Stevenson.
A seismic shift is starting, both in Britain and America, in the way that people spend – or save – their cash. And it could flag the biggest change in consumer behaviour for 50 years.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Is the Great Stocks Bear Market Over? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: MoneyWeek
Is this the end of the great bear market rally?
Markets across the world took a tumble yesterday, with the FTSE 100 ending down 1.5% at 4,645, and the Dow Jones off by nearly 200 points. So why the big slide? As with most such market moves, there were plenty of stories you could pin the fall on after the fact.
Japan exited recession, but the second quarter GDP figures weren’t as good as hoped. Economic data in the States disappointed on Friday. The Chinese stock market is slipping back into bear market territory. Take your pick.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Madmen and Government Regulations / Stock-Markets / Market Regulation
By: MISES
Jeffrey Tucker writes: The AMC's Madmen, themed around New York advertising executives in the 1960s, captivates viewers for its plots, fashions, shocking levels of political incorrectness, and, most of all, because of the way its draws viewers so closely into a world of the early 1960s that they never knew.