Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Friday, May 25, 2012
Euro Panic, ECB Out of funds, and Germany Out of Patience / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2012
Good Morning!
FXE (124.43) is leaking lower beneath its massive Head & Shoulders neckline at 124.75. The wave pattern may allow it to wiggle around at this point, but the trend is totally down. It is certain that the algos will try to milk any news about another European bailout, even though the ECB is out of funds and Germany is out of patience. Meanwhile the Greek police are trying to keep their constituents from stuffing their mattresses full of Euros. This simply cannot get any worse, or can it?
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Friday, May 25, 2012
Where Can an Investor Go in this Period of Turmoil? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2012
We start with this quote from David Cameron, the British Prime Minister made at the conclusion of the latest in European Summit Meetings.
Well, it was a good meeting in that there was complete agreement that dealing with deficits and getting growth are not alternatives, they go together, you need to do one in order to get the other.
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Friday, May 25, 2012
Debt Crisis Investment Critical Mega Developments & Select Gold Antidote / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis
“When the ECB is forced to cave and act it may finally become clear to market participants that the body politics around the world will demand that central banks implement debt eroding inflations.”
“At the Threshold of the End of Central Bank Independence, Gold is Compelling”, Frank Veneroso, A Rock Meets a Hard Place, 05/20/2012
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Friday, May 25, 2012
Financial Market Forecasts - Free Report / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2012
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With Europe in turmoil, U.S. stocks retreating and the mainstream financial press totally on the wrong side of the trend (as usual), EWI's Financial Forecast offers big-picture forecasts tackling the issues that the mainstream ignores, and they explain possible future trends using straight-talking language.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Euro-Zone Crisis Real Deal, Warning What Follows is EXTREMELY BAD / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis
The media is rife with misrepresentations and analysis of the EU. Here’s the real deal.
- The ECB is tapped out. Having provided over €1 trillion in funding via LTRO 1 and LTRO 2, taking on over €700 billion in PIIGS debt putting its own solvency at risk, it simply cannot launch another LTRO scheme for the following reasons:
- Those banks accepting LTRO funding are being punished by the market, thereby indicating that ECB funding is no financially toxic to a firm’s reputation in the market place
- The positive effects of LTRO 2 lasted only one month compared to several months for LTRO 1. Thus, we find that with each additional intervention the benefits are shorter lasting.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Long term Stock Market Top Is in, DOW MAP Analysis / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
The Dow has a clear MAP Wave count top on the monthly pivot scale M-2.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Is the Worst Over for the Stock Market? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
Greetings,
As a financial publisher, literally dozens of investment reports come across my desk each quarter, and only occasionally does one capture my attention for more than a couple of minutes.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Stock Market SPX Technical Analysis / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
This is an update on the technical comment regarding the S&P500 (symbol: SPX).
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Toronto Venture Exchange Technical Update / Stock-Markets / Canadian Stock Market
This is an update on the technical comment regarding the Toronto Venture Exchange (symbol: TSX-V).
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Have Small Cap Stocks Bottomed Or Further to Fall? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
The IWM ETF represents the Russell 2000 small cap growth index. This ETF peaked at 84.66 this spring and has fallen in the the 74′s before the recent two day bounce. What we are looking at is a possible 5 wave rally from October into March, and now a possible 3 wave correction (Wave 2) of 38-50% of that entire 5 wave rally. Elliott Wave theory is broken down into 5 wave and 3 wave movements in the markets and individual stocks, where a full 5 wave pattern in a Bull market is obviously bullish and a 3 wave pattern corrective of the prior 5 wave rally.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Position Yourself for the Rest of "Conquer the Crash" / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
To this day, I wonder why Robert Prechter's book Conquer the Crash has not been more widely recognized. It described in advance much of what happened in the 2008 financial crisis.
Published in 2002, the book provided detailed descriptions of then-future economic scenarios. They were detailed vs. general. Prechter was specific in a way that would prove right or wrong; there was no gray.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Can the Stock Market Reverse and Rally to Highs? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
Do the Bulls still stand a chance to make another run?
That is the question this weekend after we saw the 1340, 1322 pivots crashed right through following the “SP 500 Bear Case” weekend report on May 13th I sent to subscribers with a chart last weekend (May 13th SP 500 at 1353).
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Stock Market Retracement Rally is Nearly Over / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
SPY (132.14) is putting the final touches on its bounce as it tests the underside of its prior Orthodox Broadening Top. A new decline beneath 129.50 will trigger both a new Orthodox Broadening Top with an average target of 99.33 and a new Head & Shoulders pattern with a minimum target of 116.97.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Dividend Stocks: How to Soften the Bear's Short-Term Bite / Stock-Markets / Dividends
Larry D. Spears writes: For investors, May started out as a month of great promise. On May 1, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 65.69 points, closing at 13,279.
Since then, however, that promise has turned to plummet.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
SPY Bounced, XLF and FXE Not So High / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
This is just to give you a perspective on “why the bounce?” SPY bounced of yet another Orthodox Broadening Top trendline, just above daily Mid-Cycle support at 128.41. The current Broadening Formation has been forming since mid-February. Each of these formations attest to the pumping of liquidity on each downside breakout. Unfortunately for the Fed and its minions, this break-down has gone further than the others and now the previous formations offer resistance to any attempts to resume the uptrend.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Stock Market Oversold Bounce... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
When the markets opened for trading today, we had the following oscillator readings across the major indices on their daily charts. We had the Dow, and this was the least oversold, at 25-RSI and a 1 stochastic. That unto itself is deeply oversold. We followed that up with a 23-RSI on the S&P 500 chart with a 0, yes, 0 stochastic reading. The numbers on the Nasdaq 100, the most oversold at 21-RSI and 0 stochastic. Call the bears off for a while when there are those types of readings. We were simply too oversold to get involved with any down side action in the very short-term. The oscillators need to unwind up on those daily charts for the bears to be able to get any sustained downside action in the future. This is a game, and, often, the game plays by certain rules that never seem to change.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Greece Eurozone Exit Consequences? / Stock-Markets / Eurozone Debt Crisis
Why Read: Because possible (read likely, or even 'virtually certain') contagion issues arising out of a Greek Eurozone exit will be important to you - whether you invest in the financial markets or you don't.
Featured Article: An important article with a 17 slide PowerPoint presentation was published recently by Business Insider. Said to have been generated following review of "several months of research", the following overviews conclusions set out in the presentation. In summary, among other things, the presentation suggests that if Greece exits the Eurozone:
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Monday, May 21, 2012
Stock Market Corrective Rally Correction Nearly Over, Downside Acceleration Next / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
The VIX may be finished with its back-test of the neckline. There is an outside probability of one more quick touch at 22.60 before moving higher. The VIX is still nowhere near its intended target, so this is just a short reprieve from the rally.
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Monday, May 21, 2012
Stock, Forex and Commodity Markets Analysis and Trading Charts Setups / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2012
We have been having a superlative run in May. But we have little time to gloat over what we did in the last 10 days. Time to look at some weekly charts as Asia opening draws closer. The verdict is at the end of the post but dare you not read through all my charts before reading the conclusion. I have spent hours on a sunday late night to pick setups for you. So please give me an audience and read it.
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Monday, May 21, 2012
FTSE - A rose between two thorns - MAP Analysis / Stock-Markets / UK Stock Market
In MAP Analysis Part 1... I said the FTSE is showing some anomalies and needs further analysis!
The reason stated was that it appears that there was a subwave build up and having analysed it further using the principles described in parts 1 through 5 the picture is indeed one of subwaves and is not rosy! I have zoomed in on the big picture so you can see the waves within waves.
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