Friday, November 02, 2018

EWY South Korea ETF, Proxy for Global Tech, Probing Key Support / Stock-Markets / South Korea

By: Mike_Paulenoff

Many Street analysts consider the iShares South Korea ETF (EWY) as a proxy for the health of global technology, the semiconductor sector, the chip sector, and perhaps the retail electronics sector as well.

One look at my weekly chart of EWY shows that it has been in the grasp of a major correction or possibly even bear phase since its January all-time high at 79.07 into Tuesday's low at 56.34, a near 30% decline. This decline has retraced two-thirds of of the entire prior advance from the August 2015 low at 42.94 to the January 2018 high at 79.07. One could think that the ugly EWY performance reflected deteriorating relations with North Korea, but, ironically, relations have not been so promising since 1950!

Friday, November 02, 2018

Sentiment Extremely Bearish, Setting Up the Stock market For a Nice Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: Troy_Bombardia

For the first day in 2 weeks, the U.S. stock market did not selloff in the final hour of trading yesterday.

Friday, November 02, 2018

Stock Investors Are Getting Stressed, And It Can Get Much Worse / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: Avi_Gilburt

I am starting to see evidence of serious stress from investors based upon the tone of the some of the comments I am seeing in my articles on the market. Well, at least from those who did not heed my warnings.

In fact, even though I warned about this type of drop well before it happened, some investors were taking their anger out on me even though the market did exactly what I warned it would do. This suggests a high amount of stress being felt by many investors after only a 10% drop off the highs. Can you imagine what it will be like if we attained the full 20-30% correction that we see as a strong potential?

Friday, November 02, 2018

5 Good Career Options for Those Who Like Finance / Personal_Finance / Employment

By: Boris_Dzhingarov

One of the most beautiful aspects of the financial field is how vast and versatile it is. There are positions that cater to every skill and aptitude out there and that will allow you to follow a career that actually fits your interests. But with this plethora of choices, finding one career path can be a challenge. Here are just a few great positions you could consider as a finance graduate.

Thursday, November 01, 2018

The U.S. Stock Market is Very Volatile Right Now. What’s Next / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: Troy_Bombardia

The U.S. stock market has been very volatile recently, swinging up and down more than 1% each day.

Thursday, November 01, 2018

Trump Is America’s National Piñata / Politics / US Politics

By: Raul_I_Meijer

It’s been quite a while since I first wrote that I resented the MSM (New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC etc etc) for effectively monopolizing the entire discussion about Donald Trump. Don’t remember exactly when I wrote that, do remember Jim Kunstler sent a mail and thanked me for saying it. Because he felt- and feels- the same way.

The 24/7 daily Trump bashing machine that was unleashed in late 2015/early 2016 meant that people like us had a choice of criticizing Trump where he needed to be criticized, but that would put us in the MSM camp, where we don’t want to be. And we don’t want to not criticize him either, because there’s so much that needs scrutiny.

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

R.I.P. Fed-Fueled Stocks Bull Market (2009-2018)? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: MoneyMetals

The Nasdaq composite enters this week’s trading down over 10% in the month of October. For what it’s worth, market technicians consider a 10% pullback an official “correction.”

So far it’s just that – a correction. It may therefore be a bit premature to carve the stock market’s tombstone.

But investors should be prepared for further downside in share prices… and a possible longer-term (and long overdue) bear market after several years of relentless Fed-fueled price appreciation.

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

US Elections May Trigger Major Stock Market Bottom – PART II / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: Chris_Vermeulen

The clock is ticking on our expected bottom formation and now is the time for skilled traders to begin to position their trades for the remainder of 2018 and early 2019.  We detailed why we believe the US equities markets have already, or are currently, hammering out a price bottom after the last few weeks downside price activity.  In part one of this article, we illustrated how the US elections cycles are really more of a global geopolitical event and often drive price rotation in the months prior to these elections.  Please take a minute to read Part 1 of this two-part research post if you have not already done so.

In this second part of our US election research post, we are going to continue to review topics that were previously discussed as well as highlight how certain market segments appear to be setting up for a massive price reversal.  So, let’s get started.

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Why the Stock Market Crash is Just Beginning / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Crash

By: Michael_Pento

Wall Street’s playbook stipulates that every down tick in the market is just another buying opportunity. While that is most often true, peak margins, a slowing global economy and the bond bubble collapse makes this time more like 2008 than just a routine selloff. 

In the vanguard of this coming market crash is China, whose make-pretend growthrate slid to 6.5% in the third quarter. This is the slowest pace of growth thatthe communist government has been willing to own up tosince the last global financial crisis.Leaving one to conclude that the reality in China is farworse.

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

How Government Causes Inflation / Economics / Inflation

By: Kelsey_Williams

We know that inflation is the debasement of money by government. The effects of inflation show up in the form of rising prices over time. The rising prices are a reflection of the loss of purchasing power of the currency involved. For our purposes, that means the U.S. dollar.

The chart below depicts increases in the Consumer Price Index, year-to-year, dating back to 1914…

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

US 2018 Midterm Elections / Politics / US Congressional Elections

By: BATR

Conventional political wisdom would have the public believe that the electorate is poised for the Democrats to take a majority in the House of Representatives while the Republicans hold the edge in the Senate. Seldom is the question raised just what empirical evidence, where and how is it arrived at for such a conclusion to become valid. The polls in 2016 were entirely bogus and undoubtedly meant to defeat Donald Trump. Nothing has changed in the 2018 midterms. The establishment is committed to defeat GOP candidates and ensure that the Deep State regains their former power and influence. The distortion of reality is their major tactic to confuse, discourage and suppress Trump supporters from casting their ballots.

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

US Elections May Trigger Major Stock Market Bottom / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: Chris_Vermeulen

Almost like clockwork, our research team, at Technical Traders Ltd., predicted on September 17) the US stock market would turn lower and attempt a 5~8% downside move on or after September 21 headed into the US mid-term elections.  Our analysis of the potential downside move was related to our price modeling systems expectations that a common predicted downside target existed between -5% and -8%.  Our researchers did not believe the markets would fall much below -10% before hammering out a price bottom and finding support.

Monday, October 29, 2018

5 Strategies for Improving Your Financial Well-Being / Personal_Finance / Investing 2018

By: Submissions

Nobody likes being stressed about their finances. Sometimes it can seem like your money situation is out of control, but there are lots of ways you can get it figured out. Here are five strategies you can consider when trying to improve your financial well-being. You can use some or all of them to get results and reduce stress.

Monday, October 29, 2018

The Great Interest Rate Caper / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates

By: Andy_Sutton

It began as any other bull market. An early burst followed by climbing a wall of worry, then bursting out (or down in this case) beyond the wall of worry, its trajectory headed for the great ethereal unknown. And just like every similar time in history, market analysts, policy makers, and the general public assumed it would go on like this forever. And it did. Until it didn’t. By the title you might have already guessed the topic of this essay but think for a minute about this first paragraph and what we’re discussing in generic terms. Of course! We’re talking about the traits of a financial bubble.

By way of introduction, this essay will not contain any images. We have found that many times graphs and charts confuse the issues rather than helping to elucidate them.

Monday, October 29, 2018

Stock Market Approaching Intermediate Low / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: Andre_Gratian

Current Position of the Market

SPX: Long-term trend – Bear market

Intermediatetrend– Approaching initial low (1585-1600).

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. 

Monday, October 29, 2018

What to Look for in a Virtual Data Room / Companies / SME

By: Sumeet_Manhas

There are several different ways of becoming an entrepreneur. You can start your business from scratch all the way up or buy an existing business. Other possible options include acquisitions, takeovers and mergers.

In the case of a merger or an acquisition, you'll need to be specific about what you need. Virtual data rooms are the best technology that most people use to facilitate the acquisition process.

Monday, October 29, 2018

How to Simplify Contract Management Lifestyle / Companies / SME

By: Sumeet_Manhas

Negotiating contracts effectively is essential for business success. The details in the contract you negotiate will specify the details for all the transactions you make. Making a single misstep can have huge financial implications for your business.

Historically, the management of contracts was an ad-hoc process. Since the details were recorded on paper, various clauses in the document were often overlooked. That's not the case anymore!

Sunday, October 28, 2018

The Stock Market’s Volatility is Very High. What’s Next / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018

By: Troy_Bombardia

What a week for the U.S. stock market. Conventional technical analysis would have you believe that “the world is ending” because trendline support has been broken.

Sunday, October 28, 2018

Gold Stocks Will Benefit From Cyclical Change / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2018

By: Gary_Tanashian

As we have noted over the many years of the gold sector’s bear market, the gold miners will not rally for real until the real sector and macro fundamentals come into place. Those fundamentals do not include commonly promoted inflation, China/India “love” trades, a US dollar collapse or especially, war, pestilence or any other human misery than economic. The more astute gold bugs do not fall for that.

The gold miners are counter-cyclical as they leverage gold’s performance (whether positive or negative) relative to cyclical assets and markets. Hence the handy picture showing the key fundamental items with the 4 largest planets orbiting the golden sun being the most important.

Sunday, October 28, 2018

Kitchin Cycle Warned of Stok Market Volatility / Stock-Markets / Cycles Analysis

By: readtheticker

Here are some names of cycle masters: Kondratieff, Dewey, Kitchin, to name just a few. Cycles are in all matters of life, including the SP500.

From Wiki

.."Joseph Kitchin (1861–1932) was a British businessman and statistician. Analyzing American and English interest rates and other data, Kitchin found evidence for a short business cycle of about 40 months.[1] His publications led to other business cycle theories by later economists such as Nikolai Kondratieff, Simon Kuznets, and Joseph Schumpeter"..