Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Stock Market Downward Spiral of Dumbness / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Steve_H_Hanke

The Comex is a bucket shop, but the question remains how much of a bucket shop have the major equity exchanges become in the hands of the High Frequency Teasers?

So far the decline may be a bit exhilarating for the largely clueless 'buy and hold' crowd, but as shown in the SP 500 cash chart below it has dropped to familiar territory around the 100 DMA.

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Stocks Sold Off And Retraced Last Week's Advance, Will They Continue Down? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Paul_Rejczak

Briefly: In our opinion, no speculative positions are justified.

Our intraday outlook is now neutral, and our short-term outlook is neutral:

Intraday outlook (next 24 hours): neutral
Short-term outlook (next 1-2 weeks): neutral
Medium-term outlook (next 1-3 months): neutral
Long-term outlook (next year): bullish

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Stock Market Large Gap Down, Despite the Algos' Push Back / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

At 5:00 am the SPX futures were down 19 points, but a push-back ensued to cut that decline nearly in half. The Premarket still shows the better part of that rout in stocks.

ZeroHedge reports, “In a somewhat surprising turn of events, this morning's futures reaction to last night's shocking start of a completely unexpected Yemen proxy war, which has seen an alliance of Gulf State launch an air, and soon land, war against Yemen's Houthi rebels, is what one would expect: down, and down big.”

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Global Financial Markets Are More Distorted Than Ever Before / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2015

By: GoldSilverWorlds

Felix Zulauf writes: Investors started off 2015 with a slow global economy, low oil prices, a strong Dollar, and a deflationary Europe with great uncertainties on the progress of the US economy and the recent launch of Europe's quantitative easing. The question is, what opportunities lie ahead? This article highlights the main topics covered in an interview between Mr. Frank Suess, CEO and Chairman of BFI Capital Group, with the globally renowned Swiss fund manager, Mr. Felix Zulauf. Mr. Zulauf currently heads Zulauf Asset Management, a Switzerland-based hedge fund and has forty years of experience with global financial markets and asset management. He has been a member of the Barron's Roundtable for over twenty years.

Thursday, March 26, 2015

One More Stock Market Rally and Then a Huge Drop Expected / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Brad_Gudgeon

Last article, I wrote about an important top coming. On March 25, the US Market dropped about 1.4% to 2061. The E-Waves are saying we are not through yet to the upside. I talked about the Bradley Siderograph and Financial Astrology, and used some humor (but I was quite serious...joking on the square so to speak). I also promised to show you some volume figures (this time around it will be the On Balance Volume on the SPY)

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Danger Will Robinson - Stock Market Crash Warning / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Valuations

By: James_Quinn

It’s funny how the truth sometimes leaks out from the government. I’m guessing that Mr. Ted Berg will not be working for the Office of Financial Research much longer. This new agency was created by the Dodd Frank Law and is supposed to protect consumers from the evil Wall Street banks. But we all know the evil Wall Street banks wrote the bill, have gutted the major provisions, have captured all the regulatory agencies, own the Federal Reserve, and control all the politicians in Washington D.C. So, when an honest government analyst writes an honest truthful report that unequivocally proves the stock market is grossly overvalued and headed for a crash, the Wall Street banking cabal will surely call the top government apparatchiks to voice their displeasure. Truth is treason in an empire of lies.

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Why CNBC Is Hazardous to Your Financial Health! / Stock-Markets / Mainstream Media

By: Money_Morning

Michael E. Lewitt writes: If you want to lose all of your money, you could do worse than tune in to CNBC on a regular basis.

The network is a cheerleader for an overvalued stock market and the Federal Reserve policies that have pumped it up – and which are steering the economy straight into another recession.

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Stock Market Decline Gaining Momentum / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

It appears that my forecast of a drop to the 50-day was correct, but in a way that I had not imagined. All the red skid marks (excuse me, red candles) that you see may be a running correction where each successive zigzag had a lower top and a lower bottom. It is likely that the first hourly candle this morning was a sub-Micro Wave c of a sub-Minute Wave (ii). We may see a brief bounce at Short-term support at 2076.91, but the real target is the 50-day Moving Average at 2065.83, where a sub-Minute Wave (iii) may put in a low.

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Carefully Watch The Stock Market NYA Index / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Marty_Chenard

While the other indexes are typically showing levels above their resistance line, the NYA index is still below its resistance.

Is there a problem with that?

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

SPX Futures Appear Weak. WTIC and Gold May Be at Max Retracement / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2015

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

Good Morning!

So far, SPX Premarket is going nowhere as of this report. This bolsters the argument that SPX must decline at least to its next level of support at 2085.18 before any retracement, since it completed an impulse from 2114.86 yesterday. It may go deeper, possibly to the 50-day Moving Average at 2065.36. It’s hard to label the squiggles in the Elliott Wave. One thought is that it may be doing a running correction with no visible retracement.

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Can The FTSE 100 Sustain Its Elevated Levels? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Richard_Cox

The FTSE 100 is continuing to push forward with its historic bull run and markets are now clearly set on overcoming the closely watch 7,000 mark.  It is never surprising to see this much attention spent on moves in a major stock index to surpass a significantly psychological round figure like this but the real question for investors is in whether or not these latest moves will be sustainable over the long-term.  On the supportive side is the fact that consumer inflation levels in the UK have dropped to zero.  This is a factor that is likely to prove to be important given the elevated inflation levels the region has experienced for most of the last decade. 

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Stock Market NYSE Hi-Lo Index Aggressive Sell Signal / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

The NYSE Hi-Lo index is on an aggressive sell signal. I would like to see it remain beneath the 50-day moving Average at 130.08 by the end of the day. The prior low on March 20 was 37, so this morning’s 33.00 low constitutes a breakdown.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Stock Market Three Peaks/ Domed House Part III / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Money_Morning

As the Dow appears to be sketching out the Cupola of a Three Peaks/Domed House formation I thought this would be a good time to focus on that chapter of the book I am currently working on (The Complete Technical Analysis of George Lindsay: A Unified Theory of the American Equity Market – due in 2016). While that chapter is far from complete I have stumbled across an observation which will be new to the Lindsay corpus.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Stock Market Reversal May Have Begun / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

SPX declined just ticks below its Broadening Wedge trendline. This would be considered the official crash trigger, although most would wait until it crossed beneath the 50-day Moving Average at 2064.31. Considering that the Ending Diagonal already projects a decline beneath that level, it would not be out of the question to take an aggressive short position.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Stock Market Grinding At The Old Highs.....Nasdaq Nasty Daily Negative Divergence... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Jack_Steiman

As the S&P 500 grinds its way to the old highs we're now seeing a true negative divergence on the Nasdaq daily chart. It doesn't have to play out, but it's there and needs to be respected as yet another headache that's hanging over this market, along with froth and terrible looking monthly-index charts. The market seems to be adding up problems yet it still hasn't broken. The power of the fed ever present in the minds of the traders out there. They seem to worry about nothing, no matter how bad the problem may be. The S&P 500 and Dow have the potential to flash negative divergences if they get up to their old highs.

Monday, March 23, 2015

Tech Startups and Nigerian Bonds - We’re All Hedge Funds Now / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2015

By: John_Rubino

Watching formerly risk-averse investors adapt to a negative interest rate world is almost as much fun as watching Europe try to keep Greece and Germany in the same financial family. In each case, success depends on all the parties becoming something they really don’t want to be.

Monday, March 23, 2015

Why You Must Beware of Quicksilver Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2015

By: Money_Morning

Shah Gilani writes: “Quicksilver Markets” is the provocative title of an Office of Financial Research (OFR) report published March 17.

The report’s author, Ted Berg, in his conclusion warns that “Quicksilver markets can turn from tranquil to turbulent in short order.”

He believes the stock market could crash – again.

Monday, March 23, 2015

Is Stock Market Minor Top Taking Hold? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Andre_Gratian

Current Position of the Market

SPX: Long-term trend - Bull Market

Intermediate trend - Is the 7-yr cycle sketching an intermediate top?

Analysis of the short-term trend is done on a daily basis with the help of hourly charts. They are important adjuncts to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which ultimately indicate the course of longer market trends.

Monday, March 23, 2015

The Psychology Behind Your Stock Market Pessimism / Stock-Markets / Trader Psychology

By: Investment_U

Alexander Green writes: Over the course of the last few columns - and during my recent talks at the Investment U Conference - I’ve laid out my case for viewing the future of the economy and the stock market optimistically.

Yet Editorial Director Andrew Snyder polled our readership and found that only 38% of you agree with me.

Monday, March 23, 2015

What Stock Market Bears Don’t Understand / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015

By: Investment_U

Alexander Green writes: At the Investment U Conference in St. Petersburg, Florida, last week, I argued that “The Great Enrichment” has created a Golden Age for investors.

To briefly summarize my case, economic freedom - as measured by the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom - is increasing worldwide. Interest rates are at historic lows. Inflation is negligible. Job creation is the strongest in 20 years. The U.S. economy is improving. The annual budget deficit is coming down. Energy prices have more than halved in the last eight months. Technological innovation is accelerating. The dollar just hit a 12-year high against the euro and an eight-year high against the yen. U.S. household net worth is near an all-time high. So are corporate profits. And so are profit margins.