Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Wednesday, July 09, 2014
QE: Quantitative Easing or Questionably Effective / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: DeviantInvestor
We all know the S&P 500 Index has been on a 5+ year rally to all-time highs – thanks to ultra-low interest rates and the levitating wonder of “printing money” via QE – Quantitative Easing. Examine the following chart of the S&P for the past 20 years.
Tuesday, July 08, 2014
How to Profit from the Improved Jobs Numbers / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: DailyGainsLetter
George Leong writes: The stock market is looking higher. The DOW and the S&P 500 closed up for the fifth straight month as we enter into the second half of what has largely been a mixed and cautious year.
For growth investors, the good news is that small-cap stocks came back in June with a 5.15% advance and are easily leading the broader market. Technology also fared well with the NASDAQ up 3.9% in June. Blue chips and large-caps trailed the growth side. In the first half, the S&P 500 leads with a 6.07% gain followed by the 5.54% advance in the NASDAQ.
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Tuesday, July 08, 2014
Stock Market Gap Down That Holds / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Jack_Steiman
That is a change of trend, but it's not confirmed yet. At least the bears can say they have an open gap now. This hasn't been the case of any magnitude in quite some time as this gap is decent in size. The bears need a second gap down in the next few days without allowing the bulls to fill this open gap. If that does indeed take place then the bears will get more aggressive. Two open gaps make a bear very happy as they know they will be defended on any attempt to get back through. Today is an important first step, but it is only step number one and to take it a bit further, the volume on the gap down was not strong enough to give the bears that all over fuzzy feeling.
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Tuesday, July 08, 2014
Airplanes, Automobiles and Stock Market Crashes / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: By the time you’re reading this, I’ll be 30,000 feet in the air – if my plane’s not delayed further.
While that doesn’t matter to you, it does to me… if we crash.
What’s relevant about my flying today is that this morning on my way to the airport, in the back of a cab in dead slow traffic, I started thinking about airplanes and stock-market crashes.
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Monday, July 07, 2014
Thriving in a Crisis Economy - 2014 Fall Casey Summit / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014
By: Casey_Research
Even though I sometimes have trouble remembering what I ate for breakfast, I vividly remember watching John Wayne's movie The Alamo, even though I was only seven years old at the time.
That it made such a big impression on my young self was due to a combination of the heroics of the small band fighting against overwhelming odds, as well as a fascination that fate brought Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie - two of my favorite historical characters as a kid - together in the doomed fort.
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Monday, July 07, 2014
U.S. Stock Market Analysis and Forecast / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Submissions
Gary Tanashian writes: The following is an excerpt from NFTRH 298′s 38 pages of hard hitting, no b/s market analysis, which also included extensive work on the precious metals along with commodities, currencies, global markets and market sentiment.
Stock Markets – US
Happy Independence Day America! Your markets are bullish… and over bought, over loved and running on increasing momentum.
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Monday, July 07, 2014
Stocks Extend Uptrend As Investors Sentiment Remains High – Will It Continue? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Paul_Rejczak
Briefly: In our opinion, no speculative positions are justified.
Our intraday outlook remains neutral, and our short-term outlook is neutral:
Intraday (next 24 hours) outlook: neutral
Short-term (next 1-2 weeks) outlook: neutral
Medium-term (next 1-3 months) outlook: neutral
Long-term outlook (next year): bullish
Monday, July 07, 2014
S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq Since Their 2000 Highs / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: PhilStockWorld
Courtesy of Doug Short. Here is a update in response to a standing request from David England, a retired professor now actively educating investors through his Trader’s Eye website. In his presentations, he likes to disprove the standard message of Wall Street, “Don’t worry! The market will always come back.” I furnished David with some charts, and I now share them with regular visitors to my Advisor Perspectives pages.
Monday, July 07, 2014
The Truman Show Stock Market - How Things Look And What They Are / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Raul_I_Meijer
We hugely underestimate what it means not to have a functioning financial system and economy. It even feels sort of fine for a while, both to the richer part of our population who get richer, and to the rest who fall for the dream that things in their lives will get better again soon. But there is still a big difference between what things look like, and what they really are. And one day we will need to snap out of the dream and face reality.
Monday, July 07, 2014
Japanese Stock Market Still Leads – You Need To Look Close / Stock-Markets / Japanese Stock Market
By: Submissions
Forex Kong writes: We’ve all got a thesis ( or at least I hope you do ) as to how we see things moving in the future. Some base it on their knowledge of fundamentals, others purely from a technical perspective and then fewer still - those who attempt to take both disciplines into account, to formulate a picture of things to come.
Monday, July 07, 2014
Another Minor Stock Market Top / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
SPX: Very Long-term trend - The very-long-term cycles are in their down phases, and if they make their lows when expected, there will be another steep decline into late 2014. However, the Fed policy of keeping interest rates low has severely curtailed the full downward pressure potential of the 40-yr and 120-yr cycles.
Intermediate trend - The DOW may be tracing out an ending diagonal pattern.
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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Sunday, July 06, 2014
How Wall Street Plays the Dark Pools Game / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Most people who are just "in the market" don't understand high-frequency trading and dark pools. And that's okay.
However, as I've been writing about over the past couple of years, apparently that unknowledgeable group also includes people whose job it is to understand these things, including institutional money managers, brokers, investors, and, evidently, most regulators... though I don't buy their ignorance one bit.
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Sunday, July 06, 2014
Stock Market Primary III Wave Continues / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Tony_Caldaro
The holiday shortened week started on Monday with new bull markets highs, and continued making higher highs nearly every day this week. For the week the SPX/DOW were +1.3%, the NDX/NAZ were +1.3%, and the DJ World index gained 1.4%. Economic reports for the week were mixed. But the big news was the 288k jump in payrolls and the decline in the unemployment rate to 6.1%. On the uptick: pending home sales, construction spending, the ADP index and the Trade deficit improved. On the downtick: the Chicago PMI, factory orders, ISM manufacturing/services, and weekly jobless claims rose. Next week we get reports on Consumer credit, the Treasury deficit, and the FOMC minutes.
Saturday, July 05, 2014
Islamic Extremism and Emerging Market Stocks / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: EWI
By By Mark Galasiewski,
We have for many years observed a relationship between extremism and bear markets in the stock markets of Muslim nations. For example, this chart shows the deadliest Islamic terrorist attacks graphed against the MSCI Emerging Markets Index since the start of the index on December 31, 1987. Notice that many the attacks occurred near lows in the index.
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Friday, July 04, 2014
Where to Invest? - Investors Roundtable July 2014 / Stock-Markets / Investing 2014
By: Investment_U
Steve McDonald writes: A Note From the Editorial Director: The Oxford Club's editors are at it again. The debate this month: Should you invest outside the U.S.? If so, where?
Our editors may have difficulty agreeing on foreign markets, but they do agree on one thing - America is about to go through a revolution. And it will change the way everything is bought and paid for, and it has huge implications for your portfolio. To learn more about what our editors have to say, click here.
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Friday, July 04, 2014
Dow 17,000 - How Much More Overextended Before This Nonsense is Done! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014
By: Jesse
The Dow Industrial Average closed over 17,000 for the first time today.
The markets are now closed, in early observance of the 4th of July national holiday.
The equity markets are becoming overextended here. They more become a little more overextended before this nonsense is done, and then we will see a pullback of sorts. Wash and rinse.
Thursday, July 03, 2014
Hidden Factors To Systemic Failure, Economic Policy As Death Sentence / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014
By: Jim_Willie_CB
The most amusing question asked of the Jackass by clients and other people is when the system is going to break down. My usual answer is 2008, which causes a strange reaction, since a past date. Then they are given a tactful tongue lashing that they have failed to notice, detect, or discern properly the failed system in front of their noses. Further quizzical looks and pleas for explanation bring a torrent of headline facts. Seeing events through a different lens of statistical reality with almost no gullible or naive tendencies, the intrepid analyst relates the tipping point was the Lehman kill in Sept 2008, following the subprime mortgage collapse. (Forecasted in advance by the Hat Trick Letter). It was a death event for the US banking structure, which should have forced liquidation of all Wall Street firms. Then came the Financial Accounting Standards Board relaxation of rules in April 2009, which still permits the big US banks to declare their assets at any value they wish. They hide grotesque insolvency. Their liquidation would not happen, instead zombies walked.
Thursday, July 03, 2014
Using Supply and Demand to Beat the Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Investing 2014
By: Casey_Research
By Dan Steinhart, Managing Editor, The Casey Report
It’s an investing strategy so simple, you’ll wonder why you didn’t think of it.
Like any other market, the stock market obeys the laws of supply and demand. Reduce supply, and prices should rise.
Therefore, companies that reduce their outstanding shares by buying back their own stock should outperform the market.
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Thursday, July 03, 2014
Stock Market Rally - It’s Not As It Appears! / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Tim_Wood
As equities continued to rise during the advance into the 2007 top, I screamed from the roof tops that it was a bear market advance and that the efforts to prop the markets up only served to make matters worse. That certainly proved to be the case as those efforts resulted in the worst financial crisis since The Great Depression. Yet, as a result of the worst financial crisis since The Great Depression, the response to that event was the massive bailouts and even more of the same things that created that event in the first place. Seriously, think about it. Is it remotely reasonable to respond to the worst financial crisis since the 1930’s with more of the same actions that created that crisis in the first place? Does this really make sense? Ever since the rally out of the 2009 low began, I have explained that it is a bear market advance and that the longer the rally extends, the more dangerous it will become. The rally out of the 2009 low has now extended to the point that it is the longest cyclical advance since the inception of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1896.
Thursday, July 03, 2014
Threading the Needle of Silver Price Discovery / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
Price discovery in all commodities is an electronic paper affair. While the macro-economy and the geopolitical provide a distant framework, they do not wield significant direct influence. The "discovery issue" occurs across the board, but is nowhere more evident than in the precious metals futures markets and, most notably, silver. A look under the hood at the most recent rally confirms that we are nowhere close to the point of return to equilibrium price. Read full article... Read full article...