Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Monday, December 08, 2014
Crude Oil Panic Knock-on Effects / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Crude just broke below its prior low at 63.72, hitting 63.47 as I write this memo. It appears that it will decline to its Wave [iii] target of 58.45 in the next 24 hours, creating another 10% down day panic.
Monday, December 08, 2014
Still No Short-Term Stock Market Direction As Stocks Fluctuate Along Record Levels / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Paul_Rejczak
Briefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,085 and profit target at 1,950, S&P 500 index).
Our intraday outlook is bearish, and our short-term outlook is bearish:
Intraday (next 24 hours) outlook: bearish
Short-term (next 1-2 weeks) outlook: bearish
Medium-term (next 1-3 months) outlook: neutral
Long-term outlook (next year): bullish
Monday, December 08, 2014
The 3 Grinch that stole Xmas. Why were they flying upside down? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014
By: Submissions
Nicholas Migliaccio writes: I think it was the pilot from Colorado brought in his kit. No it was really not marijuana related
t was an auroral storm of the century, trashed their instruments, in the middle of a 12 hour white out left them flying blind, and upside down, the wrong way into the West Flank of Mt.Elbert, where no one knew to look for them. Their instruments must have been trashed by the storm as the black box showed them impacting the mountain, upside down, at 550 knots. There was not much in the way of big pieces left.
Monday, December 08, 2014
Stock Market High Level Levitation / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
SPX: Long-term trend - Bull Market
Intermediate trend - While everything technical points to an overbought condition which should require an adjustment, the exact timing of that correction is for the market itself to decide and reveal.
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.
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Monday, December 08, 2014
Credit Bubble World in a Box / Stock-Markets / Liquidity Bubble
By: John_Rubino
Of all the problems with fiat currency, the most basic is that it empowers the dark side of human nature. We're potentially good but infinitely corruptible, and giving an unlimited monetary printing press to a government or group of banks is guaranteed to produce a dystopia of ever-greater debt and more centralized control, until the only remaining choice is between deflationary collapse or runaway inflation. The people in charge at that point are in a box with no painless exit.
Sunday, December 07, 2014
Financial World - The Most Elementary Question Must Not Be Asked / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014
By: Raul_I_Meijer
We’re in dire need of fresh blood and smart new ideas to clean up the mess the present ideologies and their puppets and puppetmasters have created. The present crew has made a neverending series of ‘mistakes’, intentional or not, and they are dead set on making more, if only because they refuse to change the tack that led to all these ‘mistakes’.
I say mistakes because that’s what they are from the point of view of all those who live in the real economy, not because I think the puppetmasters are mistaken from their own point of view. After all, all they do, literally all they do, is take care of their own interests. Where they will find themselves mistaken is down the line, when there is no longer a functioning real economy, and they will of necessity end up going down with it.
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Saturday, December 06, 2014
Third Longest Stocks Bull Market in History / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market
By: Tony_Caldaro
The market started the week at SPX 2068, gapped down to 2050 on Monday, then made higher highs for the rest of the week. For the week the SPX/DOW gained 0.55%, the NDX/NAZ lost 0.40%, and the DJ World index lost 0.25%. Economic reports on the week were mixed. On the uptick: construction spending, ISM services, non-farm payrolls, long term investing, plus weekly jobless claims improved. On the downtick: ISM manufacturing, consumer credit, the WLEI, the ADP index, and the trade deficit. Next week we get Retail sales, Export/Import prices and the PPI.
Saturday, December 06, 2014
Stock Market Santa Mania Rally, Dow 18,000 New All Time High / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The stock market's relentless santa rally grind higher on Friday put the Dow within a whisker of trading above Dow 18,000 for the first time ever! The trading session saw the Dow trade upto 17,991 by mid-day and then spend the next 2 hours flirting with a break above Dow 18k before trending lower into the close to still close at a new all time high of Dow 17,948.
Saturday, December 06, 2014
Jobs Explode.... Financial's Do As Well..... Stock Market Grinding.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Jack_Steiman
The market received a big jolt this morning. It came from the world of job creation. The market was expecting a decent report with 220k-230k jobs created. Also, there was the hope of a decent increase in hourly wages. A strong showing of some kind that the economy is hanging in there. The market was waiting and hoping that it wouldn't be a bad number since so many economic reports haven't been wonderful. Please, just no number that begins with a 1. Has to be a 2. The number was a 3. 321k to be exact. 100k more than expected. Wages also rose 0.4%, which was really good to see. Things are picking up. Well, at least for the past month.
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Friday, December 05, 2014
Are We In Another 1990’s-Style Super Stocks Bull Market? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Sy_Harding
Bull markets normally last an average of 4.5 years. By that time, stocks are usually over-valued, the market is over-extended, the Fed is making plans to cool off the enthusiasm, and the bull market/ bear market cycle begins to sequence into the next bear market.
Super bull markets, those that go beyond the norm, have been once in a lifetime anomalies, driven by unusual, life-changing technological transformations. There have been two in the last 100 years.
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Thursday, December 04, 2014
SPX Turns Down, XJY Ripe for a Turn / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Having re-crossed the trendline of its Ending Diagonal, SPX appears to be headed for the Orthodox Broadening Top at 2060.00. Short-term support at 2058.93 is not very much lower. I expect to see these supports to be taken out quickly.
The NYSE Hi-Lo is back below the 50-day Moving Average, sparking the aggressive sell signal there. The VIX is emerging from its bottom. No signal there, yet.
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Thursday, December 04, 2014
What's Next for the U.S. Dollar and Gold? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014
By: Axel_Merk
Who would have predicted oil prices in the sixty-dollar range a year ago? Something is not right about these markets. Our take: don't get burned when markets add fuel to the fire. Here's what to watch out for as we head into 2015; ignore at your own peril.
Thursday, December 04, 2014
Stock Market New Record High As Stocks Slightly Extended Uptrend / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Paul_Rejczak
Briefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,085 and profit target at 1,950, S&P 500 index).
Our intraday outlook is bearish, and our short-term outlook is bearish:
Intraday (next 24 hours) outlook: bearish
Short-term (next 1-2 weeks) outlook: bearish
Medium-term (next 1-3 months) outlook: neutral
Long-term outlook (next year): bullish
Thursday, December 04, 2014
Five Critical Stock Investing Moves to Make Before December 31st / Stock-Markets / Investing 2014
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: We’ve spent a lot of time in the past few weeks talking about how to maximize your investment returns.
But there’s another side to building wealth in the markets… keeping it.
If you’re thinking I’m going to launch into an article on “risk management,” that’s great, because it means you’re thinking like a market maven and that our time together is worth it.
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Tuesday, December 02, 2014
Reversal in TNX as USD Breaks Out / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Good Morning!
TNX is racing to challenge Short-term resistance at 22.83 this morning. I had not reported on TNX yesterday, since it had only made three waves from its low and closed at hourly Cycle Bottom resistance at 22.15. This morning the reversal is clear and the Cycles Model verifies it. It also suggests that the rally may continue through mid-December, once a pullback to the Cycle Bottom is made. Those who are long treasuries may find a more comfortable exit there, while those wishing to short treasuries may find a better entry point at the Cycle Bottom.
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Tuesday, December 02, 2014
Oil Price, Gold And Now Stocks? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Raul_I_Meijer
Is the Plunge Protection Team really buying oil now? That would be so funny. Out of the blue, up almost 5%? Or was it the Chinese doing some heavy lifting stockpiling for their fading industrial base? Let’s get to business.
First, in the next episode of Kids Say The Darndest Things – oh wait, that was Cosby .. -, we have New York Fed head (rhymes with methhead) Bill Dudley. Dudley’s overall message is that the US economy is doing great, but it’s not actually doing great, and therefore a rate hike would be too early. Or something. Bloomberg has the prepared text of a speech he held today, and it’s hilarious. Look:
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Tuesday, December 02, 2014
Stock Market Gap Down And Hold....Not Run, But At Least Hold.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Jack_Steiman
So at least the bears can say they made some progress today. Not exactly what they would love to see but at least they have something more positive to hold on to. They were able to get a strong gap down and they definitely held that gap down all day as the bulls tried several times to move things back up but the determined bears held that gap wide open. That's a huge start for the dark side players as they have been unable to that for a very long time. Large gap down and hold seems like something from the dark ages. Today they did it, but they did fail to do the whole package, which would have included a gap down and run lower all day with a close at or on the lows. But that's fine with them as they'll take whatever they can. They're so used to being disappointed they had mostly given up. Today at least they didn't give up.
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Monday, December 01, 2014
US Dollar Goes Parabolic Vs. Russian Ruble and Japanese Yen / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014
By: Jeb_Handwerger
Despite the junior resource sector being near a major bottom and going through a bear market of epic proportions, I still believe that this may be one of the best times to add to quality positions. Nothing perfects one's craft in the financial markets like a bear market. In a bear market one has to refine their skills in stock picking. The emergence of a new bull market is usually the most propitious time for outsized gains.
Monday, December 01, 2014
SPX Gaps Down, Crude Oil Price Continues to Slide / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Good Morning!
As indicated on Friday, the SPX Premarket has declined beneath both the lower trendline of its Ending Diagonal formation and the upper trendline of the Orthodox Broadening Top. It appears to have bounced off Short-term support at 2052.12 and remains between its new support and resistance lines.
ZeroHedge reports, “Another day full of global macroeconomic disappointments is certain to send the S&P500 to all time-higherest records as 100,000 or so E-mini contracts exchange hands between central banks and Citadel's algos.
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Monday, December 01, 2014
The World Has Become Obdurate, Central Bankers Hell Bent on Creating Inflation / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014
By: Michael_Pento
There is a perfect word that describes the current condition of governments and consumers around the world today. The word is obdurate, and it means to be stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing.
The word comes to mind when witnessing the renewed enthusiasm of central banks to re-inflate old asset bubbles and to endlessly debase their currencies with the misguided belief that inflation will engender sustainable economic growth. In the case of the Fed, it has so far to date made at least three QE efforts and six years of ZIRP to achieve this goal. But what it has actually achieved is to create asset bubbles and render the nation insolvent. Governments have failed to grow economies in any viable manner. But today's central bankers have become the very embodiment of the word obdurate, as they stubbornly persist in the effort to pursue inflation as a panacea, despite all available evidence that it will fail to achieve their desired results.
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