Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
The Collapse Of Europe's Top Stock Market / Stock-Markets / European Stock Markets
By: DailyWealth
The euro crisis isn't just hammering Germany's banks... it's hammering the "DAX" as well. And that's very, very bad...
You can think of the "DAX" as the Dow Jones Industrial Average of Germany. It consists of the biggest blue-chip German companies. Names you'll recognize here include BMW, Merck, Bayer, Adidas, Daimler, BASF, and Volkswagen. As you can see from today's chart, these blue chips are in crash mode. The DAX has fallen 31% in the past two months. This type of move is the mark of a region in crisis.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Wall Street Issues Its Latest Ultimatum to Europe / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Jesse
Read full article... Read full article...“I’m very close to thinking the United States shouldn’t be in Basel any more. I would not have agreed to rules that are blatantly anti-American. Our regulators should go there and say: ‘If it’s not in the interests of the United States, we’re not doing it'...
I think any American president, secretary of Treasury, regulator or other leader would want strong, healthy global financial firms and not think that somehow we should give up that position in the world and that would be good for your country. If they think that’s good for the country then we have a different view on how the economy operates, how the world operates.”
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
World Markets Tumble as Clouds gather over Eurozone / Stock-Markets / Global Debt Crisis
By: Mike_Whitney
Growing fears of a default in Greece sent markets in Europe and Asia plunging on Monday while yields on "safe haven" US Treasuries and German bund fell to record lows. Nearly 3 years after Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, the global economy is now facing a second and more lethal financial crisis that threatens to tear-apart the battered eurozone and drag the world economy back into recession.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Oversold Stock Market Bounces... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Jack_Steiman
This morning I spoke about how the 60-minute index charts were oversold, and thus, it wouldn't be very wise to short the gap down that was going to take place due to more bad news in Europe. The gap down took place, and then the market went back and forth, down as many as 150 Dow points before reversing late in the day. At the same time those 60-minute charts got oversold, the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish (UUP) chart got overbought. It wasn't on the 60-minute chart, but instead, on its daily chart. It had a 70 RSI reading. We all know that 70 RSI's are not the best conditions for further upside most but not necessarily all of the time. In this particular case, that was true for the dollar, which remains very bullish bigger picture on its chart. That was it for the very short-term, and thus, the reversal on all sides here as the dollar fell late and the market surged as that fall took place. It was a nasty black candle on the UUP today with the RSI still at 71 on its daily chart. This is an indication that the market is about to engage in more upside action in those nasty bigger-picture bear-flag patterns.
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Monday, September 12, 2011
The Chart That Predicted '87 Stock Market Crash Now Predicts Major Rally / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Sara_Nunnally
I just got my hands on something juicy...
We've been talking about technical analysis and being able to read charts here at Smart Investing Daily for the past couple of weeks.
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Monday, September 12, 2011
Three Moves Investors Should Make Before the Next FOMC Meeting / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald, , writes: The decisions made at the next Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on Sept. 20-21 could affect market performance for years to come. That's why investors should prepare ahead of time. Of course, there's no way to predict exactly what U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will do, but 20 years of experience in global markets suggest he's considering five alternatives drawn from a rapidly diminishing menu of options:
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Monday, September 12, 2011
Stocks and Commodities May Get Hammered If U.S. Dollar Rallies / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: Chris_Ciovacco
Saying an asset class may be “hammered” may seem like a colorful way to express an opinion, but the table below shows stocks and commodities were indeed hammered during a sharp U.S. dollar rally that occurred in the period August 2008 - November 2008.
Monday, September 12, 2011
What Social Mood Is Saying About the Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: J_W_Jones
Social mood is absolutely horrible right now. In my experience as a trader I do not recall a similar time frame in my life. Social mood has deteriorated to the point that it would not surprise me to see two grown men come to blows over a fantasy football draft. Oh wait, that happens every year!
Monday, September 12, 2011
Stock Market Downward Pressure Increases in Sepember / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Donald_W_Dony
As the S&P 500 approaches the expected low in late September, downward pressure is increasing and volatility continues to expand.
The VIX, which moves in the opposite direction to the S&P 500, has risen from a medium risk level of 24 in early August into the high risk band of over 33. At the same time, the stock index dropped from 1290 to 1120 (Chart 1).
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Stock Market Almost Ready to Fall Off a Cliff / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Andre_Gratian
SPX: Very Long-term trend - The very-long-term cycles are down and, if they make their lows when expected, there will be another steep and prolonged decline into 2014.
SPX: Intermediate trend - After last week, it is likely that the downtrend continues. It has a tentative projection to 1065.
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
Monday Stock Market Pivot Point / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: George_Maniere
In 1940 Jesse Livermore wrote one of the classic books on the workings of the Stock Market “How to Trade in Stocks. By this time Jesse Livermore had developed a mathematical formula that incorporated what he termed “Pivot Points” in determining when to initiate a buy or a sell. When he calculated pivot points, the pivot point themselves, were the primary support or resistance of the asset. This meant that the largest price movement (either up or down) was expected to occur at this point. The other support and resistance levels were less influential, but still had the ability to generate significant price movements.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Will Stock Markets Crash This Week? Are Years of Reckoning Dead Ahead? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Joseph_Russo
Sure the market could crash this week and deservedly so, but it doesn't really matter because it's just a ride.
Frankly, I could not care less whether the S&P crashes back down below 666 or if it catapults its way to new heights north of 2000. At the end of the day, it's just a ride.
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
Stock Market Meltdown, Bear Market Remains Probable / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Tony_Caldaro
The week started off with a meltdown in Europe. They lost 4.35% on monday while the US markets were closed. When the US market opened on tuesday, it gapped down losing about 3%, made the low for the week, rallied nearly 6% from that low, then ended the week with another meltdown in Europe (-3.20%) closing about 1% above the low for the week. Economic reports for the week were sparse with positives edging out negatives four to three.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Credit Versus Equity The War Is Waged / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: Tony_Pallotta
Bull versus bear. Greed versus fear. Smart money versus dumb money. Depression versus transitory soft patch. Credit versus equity.
In one corner is the credit market, a rather mighty opponent where $1 million defines an odd lot. Credit has spoken loudly. They have priced in a severe recession, depression whatever you want to call it.
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Saturday, September 10, 2011
Moving Average Sell Signals on the S&P Stock Market Index / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Only twice in the last 11 years (2000 & 2007) have all of my directional weekly moving averages turned down into a negative crossing, which subsequently confirmed that an acute, intermediate-term bear phase was underway.
In 2000, after the downside moving average inflection point, the S&P 500 declined from 1380 to 768 (-45%), and in 2007 the SPX declined from 1475 to 666.79 (-55%).
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Saturday, September 10, 2011
Greece Debt Default On Deck.... Stock Market Anxious... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Jack_Steiman
Late this morning, after the market started recovering from its early move lower to start the day, there was news from Germany that Greece was likely to default by some time next week. The Dow fell two hundred points in a very short period of time as traders and investors started removing themselves from long plays. Hard to blame them, of course, as this type of news, should it become fact, would be devastating for markets around the world. The market spent the rest of the day spinning and churning once we got to -300 on the Dow. There was no collapse past that initial move lower off the news, but no real rally either.
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Saturday, September 10, 2011
Prepare For A Recession and Stocks Bear Market! / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: Sy_Harding
Brace yourself for a recession. Central banks around the world seem to be doing so, making little effort to prevent it this time around, resigned to letting the business cycle play out.
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Saturday, September 10, 2011
Investor Opportunities Credit Crunch / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“In doing what the Swiss National Bank is doing (Ed. Pegging the Swiss Franc to the Euro), it has effectively ended the Swiss Franc as a currency.” Dennis Gartman, The Gartman Letter
Crises are Magnifying and Intensifying but are also providing Substantial Profit Opportunities, providing one knows what to focus on, and what to avoid – our dual focus here.
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Friday, September 09, 2011
Stock Market Bear Selling / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Zeal_LLC
Early August’s sharp stock-market plunge ignited an explosion of bearish theories. And with the headline stock indexes still grinding along near lows over the month since, fears of a new bear market continue to proliferate today. But interestingly, the fast selling velocity that spooked traders is not characteristic of young bear markets. Instead it is a bull-market-correction phenomenon.
Friday, September 09, 2011
Fed Can’t Twist Stock Market Sell Signals Away / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
By: Chris_Vermeulen
The Wall Street Journal’s cover story on September 8 boldly proclaimed “Fed Prepares to Act”. The article hinted that ‘Operation Twist’ may be in the works (more on that below). Can you imagine the market’s reaction to a headline like that in the late 1990s when the Fed was looked at as some kind of miracle worker? The S&P 500 futures would have popped in the morning and inflation-protection assets would have had a strong open. On the morning of said Wall Street Journal article, the markets barely took notice of possible Fed action. This is clear evidence the markets no longer place central bankers on the miracle worker’s pedestal. It also shows fear of debt-induced deflationary outcomes is now outweighing the fear of inflation. These are significant and dangerous shifts for the market’s risk/reward profile. If this shift continues, stocks (SPY) and commodities (DBC) may experience further, and rapid declines in the next six months, if not much sooner. We added to our short positions (SH) on August 8.