Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

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Sunday, August 23, 2015

An Easy Way to Eliminate Financial Uncertainty / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

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MoneyMorning.com Andrew Snyder writes: Your personal definition of wealth is what will truly liberate you. It’s a complex idea... so let me explain.

A couple weeks ago, I wrote about my “broken bowl” theory. The idea is simple: Ensure your outgo is always much less than your income.

Do it right, and the following quote could come from your mouth...

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Stock Market Bloodbath - The Feds Gonna Need A Bigger Balance Sheet / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: James_Quinn

Driving home from work on Friday night I found it terribly amusing listening to the “business journalists” on the local news station trying to explain the 531 point plunge in the Dow and the 1,105 point plummet from the Tuesday high. The job of these faux journalist mouthpieces for the status quo is not to report the facts, analyze the true factors underlying the market, or seek the truth. Their job is to calm the masses, keep them sedated, and paint the rosiest picture possible.

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Stock Markets Plunge - The Economic "Red Wedding" Begins / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

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MoneyMorning.com Michael E. Lewitt writes: I love being right…Does that make me a bad person?

I have been warning for months that the market is overvalued, that the global economy is sick, and that stocks are headed for a fall. While CNBC and the rest of the clueless bulls break out the arm-bands, readers at Money Morning – who have been paying attention – should not have been surprised by what happened last week.

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Stock Market Due For A Breather (But More To Go) / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Andre_Gratian

Current Position of the Market

SPX: Long-term trend - Bull Market

Intermediate trend – SPX has started an intermediate correction

Analysis of the short-term trend is done on a daily basis with the help of hourly charts. It is an important adjunct to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which discusses the course of longer market trends.

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Stock Market 20% Bear Market in the Works / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Brad_Gudgeon

Last week, I wrote that I would share the IMP pattern with you and also more about TLC (Trend Line Convergence) and how it identifies bottoms (or buy points) in the stock market. First, the week in review: the astro Friday was especially bad as the Sun sq.'d Saturn. We also broke below the neckline of the head and shoulders pattern top. In the charts below, I also had noted to my subs that there was a TLC low due August 21. The next one is due on August 31, which also is a very negative astro with the Sun opposing Neptune while the full moon on August 29th reaches perigee. It is my opinion that August 31st will trump August 21st for being a real bad day in the market.

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Stock Market Primary IV Underway? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Tony_Caldaro

The market started the week at SPX 2092. After a gap down opening on Monday the market quickly recovered to hit SPX 2103. It traded at that level again on Tuesday, and then ran into three straight gap down openings for the rest of the week. On Friday the SPX hit 1971 and closed there. For the week the SPX/DOW were -5.8%, the NDX/NAZ were -7.1%, and the DJ World index was -5.3%. On the economic front reports came in slightly to the positive. On the uptick: the NAHB, the CPI, housing starts, existing home sales, the Philly FED and the GDPN. On the downtick: the NY FED, building permits, leading indicators, the WLEI, plus weekly jobless claims rose. Next week’s reports will be highlighted by the next report on Q2 GDP, Durable goods, and PCE prices.

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Stock Market Dow Theory - The Reckoning / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Tim_Wood

The Dow Theory non-confirmation that began forming in February has been a warning. The Great Dow Theorist Robert Rhea once said, "a wise man leaves the market alone when the averages do not agree." Few really understand Dow Theory and it seems that most people who are familiar with it tend to discount it as some antiquated relic of the past. The current market environment and the developments since February are a perfect example. The Dow Theory has been warning, but as is always the case, those warnings have not been understood or heard.

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Stock Market Nirvana Has Been Broken / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Doug_Wakefield

Is it possible to have a calm and boring market break down quickly in merely two trading days? Is it possible that THIS is the start of breaking the "stock nirvana" illusion?

Let's examine the evidence.

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Three Ways to Profit from the Stock Market Correction / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

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MoneyMorning.com Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: When I started Total Wealth I promised you that it would be a two-way street, meaning that information would flow both directions – from me to you and from you to me.

Today I want keep that promise by answering a question from J. Stockhausen that’s on a lot of people’s mind at the moment…

Saturday, August 22, 2015

S&P 2040 Breaks Down... Stock Market Turns Bearish / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Jack_Steiman

For quite some time I've spoken about the look of those nasty monthly charts across the board. While the market stopped going higher, it didn't break lower, and I believe many of you thought they'd never play out. They had to. They really had no choice. Every rubber made has a breaking point. You can try to be cute by continuing to stretch them and think to yourself, let's see if this particular one defies what we know to be true. Truth always wins out in the end. Eventually it snaps and you feel the pain of that snap.

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Pandemonium in the Stock Market, Dow falls 1,000 points in a week / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: EWI

This week's stunning sell-off sent the Dow 1,000 points lower. Other markets have surprised investors lately, too:

1. Crude oil just fell below $40 a barrel
2. Gold just broke above $1160 an ounce
3. The U.S. dollar is enjoying the strength not seen in years

Friday, August 21, 2015

Massive Stock Market Breakdown Underway / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

SPX is challenging the Cycle Bottom support at 2014.71 this morning. The bounce off this support may not last long at all, so there is no change in signal. There is a good probability that SPX may decline to 1960.00-1970.00 before a bounce, if any. It appears that we may see as many as 10 more market days of decline to the Intermediate Wave (1) low. It won’t be a pretty sight for the bulls.

Friday, August 21, 2015

Waiting for Dow Theory Stock Market Sell Signal / Stock-Markets / Dow Theory

By: Gary_Savage

Most analysts don't understand where the last secondary correction occurred. They assume that the averages need to drop below the Oct Low to produce a Dow Theory bearish trend change.

Actually the last secondary correction bottomed in July. The industrials have already broken those lows and if the transports also break below that level it will generate a Dow Theory sell signal.

Friday, August 21, 2015

More Stock Market Supports Broken / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

There is no wonder that SPX is lower this morning. It closed beneath the lower trendline of its Orthodox Broadening Top last night. The Premarket shows the SPX down 7.5 points this morning, a low not seen since February 7. The 4-year uptrend line is also broken, suggesting a complete retracement to the October 4, 2011 low at 1074.00 in Cycle Wave I. that may come as early as mid-January 2016.

Friday, August 21, 2015

U.S. Election Cycle Stock Market Profit Pattern is About to Begin / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

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MoneyMorning.com Tom Gentile writes: As much as it pains me to contribute to the thousands of articles mentioning Donald Trump, this one is different…

It's different because I'm going to show you exactly how you can cash in on a concrete pattern, going back three-quarters of a century, which appears across the markets during the "election cycle," or the last two years of every American presidency.

Friday, August 21, 2015

Full on Crash Alert for Major World Stock Markets... / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Clive_Maund

There are various reasons, both fundamental and technical, to believe that a market crash is almost upon us. This crash will affect virtually all world markets, including and especially the big Western Markets which have thus far escaped the devastation already afflicting the developing markets. Here we are going to focus on US markets, but they will all get taken down - European markets including the UK, and Far Eastern markets such as Hong Kong and Japan.

The fundamental reasons for a market crash now are big and obvious - the ravages of deflation and depression brought about by extremes of debt which must cut into corporate profits - in Japan the debt situation is now hopeless, the Sovereign debt crisis set to crush Europe and probably destroy the euro, the collapse and implosion of the monstrous debt fuelled bubble in China which is already underway, an accelerating currency crisis in the Far-East exacerbated by the recent Chinese devaluation of the Yuan, and the collapse also already underway in Emerging Markets. Given that US markets have been driven to giddying heights by the combination, among other things, of maxed out margin debt and stock buybacks, it is clear that a crash of perhaps unprecedented proportions in on the cards. So much for the fundamentals, since we are more concerned with timing, we now turn to consider the latest charts.

Friday, August 21, 2015

Global Stock Markets - Why it's Worse than October 2014 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Ashraf_Laidi

Fed funds futures are coming around to the idea of no September rate hike, a position we long held since last December based on the argument that inflation in 2015 will move further below the Fed's mandate, to the extent that the tightening in labour markets is inadequate to stir up inflationary pressures.

Friday, August 21, 2015

China Weakens the Yuan; Rattles Global Stock and Financial Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2015

By: Gary_Dorsch

On August 11th, the hierarchy of the Chinese Politburo surprised the global financial markets, by unilaterally devaluing the yuan against the US$, without any advance notice. Beijing quickly engineered a -3% devaluation of the yuan against the US$ in two days, in what it called a "one-off" operation. Still, the surprise move sent various financial markets around the world into a tizzy, as analysts, pundits and traders began to speculate that the latest move by Beijing was just the first salvo in a campaign to gradually weaken the yuan against the US$, and possibly, to keep the yuan on an even keel with other major reserve currencies, such as the Euro and the Japanese yen.

Friday, August 21, 2015

Stock Market - Fasten Your Seat Belt! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Puru_Saxena

It is official; the multi-month trading range on Wall Street has now ended with a breakout to the downside.  You will recall that the major US indices were in a quiet, consolidation phase since December and over the past several weeks, we wrote extensively about the deterioration in the stock market’s internals. 

In fact, about a month ago, our proprietary set of trend following indicators flashed ‘market under distribution’ which prompted us to reduce our equity exposure and partially hedge our book. Unfortunately, over the past few trading sessions, these set of indicators have deteriorated even more and there is now a high probability of an autumn plunge.  Accordingly, we have reduced our equity exposure even more and currently, only half of the capital under our management is invested in common stocks. 

Friday, August 21, 2015

Global Stocks Slide, Markets are Moving! Want to Get Onboard? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: EWI

"When the alarm goes off and the dreamers awake, it will be pandemonium in the stock market." -- Bob Prechter, from the just-released Elliott Wave Theorist.

You would agree that markets around the world have served investors a lot of surprises lately: