Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

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Friday, August 12, 2011

High Risk Reward Trading Strategy in VIX Put Options / Stock-Markets / Options & Warrants

By: Money_Morning

Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: Many investors dream of making the "big trade."

Spurred on by stories of fabled investors who accumulated generations of wealth with just one big trade, they talk incessantly about what they could or should have done.

Friday, August 12, 2011

Aftershocks From a Nervous Stock Market ... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: Marty_Chenard

By now, you know why I like the Institutional Index of "core holdings". It is because it is not really an index, and it represents the action of the core holdings being held by institutional investors.

Since it isn't really an index, it can't be manipulated, tweaked, or experience stop running. It is because of these factors, that this index of core holdings can be strikingly accurate relative to market turns and projections on a technical analysis basis.

Friday, August 12, 2011

Credit Markets Point To A Major Stock Market Correction / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: Tony_Pallotta

Credit is like a black box to most retail investors. It's a shame CNBC gives Rick Santelli only 10-15 minutes a day to report on this market. The Fed may set short term rates but the bond market sets everything else. From credit formation that fuels economic growth to interest rates that affect everyone's life the bond market is home to many smart investors and one market you do not want to ignore.

Friday, August 12, 2011

Stock Market Recovery Remains Weak / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: Donald_W_Dony

Thursday's strong bounce in the markets may raise some hope with investors of a recovery, but equity indexes still remain far too weak for the bull to return.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Stock Market History May Not Repeat, But It Always Rhymes / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Tony_Caldaro

The last time we had a deflationary bear market low followed by a bull market was 1932-1937. When that bull market completed, the 1929-1932 bear market was still fresh in everyone’s minds. We reviewed the waves coming off the spring 1937 top and found a similar pattern to today’s market.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Stocks Bear Market Dow Theory Update / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Tim_Wood

Ever since the rally out of the March 2009 low began, I’ve been saying that we have been in a bear market rally that should ultimately prove to separate Phase I from Phase II of a longer-term secular bear market.   This view has not changed.   Based on the overall evidence at hand, I continue to believe that we are operating in an environment much like that of the 1966 to 1974 secular bear market, with the advance out of the 1966 Phase I low being similar in nature to the rally out of the 2009 low. 

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Irrationality Drives Financial Markets, That's How Systems Collapse / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011

By: Danny_Schechter

Oh thank you, Wikipedia, for this definition:

“Irrationality is cognition, thinking, talking or acting without inclusion of rationality. It is more specifically described as an action or opinion given through inadequate reasoning, emotional distress, or cognitive deficiency. The term is used, usually pejoratively, to describe thinking and actions that are, or appear to be, less useful or more illogical than other more rational alternatives.”

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Stock Market Crash 2011 Critical Juncture Report / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: EWI

Dear Investor,

The Dow plummeted some 1800 points in the past weeks.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Stock Market and Economic Overview / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011

By: AVA_Research

AVA Investment Analytics : Approximately three months weeks ago the U.S. markets began to correct. We warned about this first correction in the May issue of our firms paid research publications.

We followed up in June, forecasting additional downside down to the 11,800 level with the highest probability. This level was to be the repurchase area for those who decided to sell positions at the top. The Dow rallied in late June after hitting 11,844.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Fed Call Wakes Up Global Markets / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011

By: George_Maniere

Yesterday the Fed minutes were released and to cut to the end they told everyone what they already knew and why the markets have sold off 14% in the last two weeks. The U.S. economy is slowing and it’s not all transitory from bad weather and Japan’s tragic tsunami and earthquake. While people will debate the verbiage what was made abundantly clear was that the Fed is going to keep interest rates low for a very long time. The statement said rates would remain low until mid 2013. That the Fed would commit to such a long time frame is a very unusual event.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Return of the Stocks Bear Market, Do Central Bankers Lead or Follow the Market? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Mike_Shedlock

The bear market is back says Australian economist Steve Keen. I agree. Moreover, the recent action, including the rally, offers sufficient evidence. The biggest percentage gains in history have all been in bear market rallies.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Global Stock Markets Poise for a Rebound / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: Submissions

Sam Chee Kong writes: Due to the Downgrade of the US Sovereign ratings by S&P, the current rout in the global stock markets seems like there is no end in sight. Last week the authorities hoped to downplay the severity of the downgrade by announcing the downgrade over the weekend when most markets are closed. Come Monday, all hell broke loose when trading bells open in Asia and Europe, markets are dropping like flies.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Run, Ride or Buy? What Should Stock Market Investors Do? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: Frank_Holmes

There’s an old contrarian investing maxim from Baron Rothschild that says “the time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own.” The idea is that the best investors strategize when others panic, allowing them to buy stocks on “sale.” The legend of Warren Buffett was built on this philosophy during the market turmoil of the mid-1970s.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Where Oh Where Are The Safe Havens From Yesteryear? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011

By: Jeb_Handwerger

Gold Stock Trades (GST) is witnessing the resumption of the long term uptrend in gold(GLD) and silver(SLV) bullion and precious metals mining stocks(GDX). Along the way there have been many negative voices that were counseling throwing in the towel and moving into the U.S. dollar and long term treasuries. We see no underlying fundamental reasons and find that the safe havens of yesteryear are falling by the wayside. A few months ago Gold Stock Trades alerted readers that investors are being prepared for further accommodative moves by the Federal Reserve Board.

Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Why Is the Stock Market Plunging? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Robert_Murphy

Investors the world over are still reeling from last Thursday's massive plunge in the US equity markets, in which the major indices all gave up more than 4 percent. It was the worst day for the US stock market since December 2008.

None of this should surprise those conversant with Austrian economics. The "fundamentals" of the economy have been and remain awful because the government and Federal Reserve are consistently doing the wrong things. The apparent recovery, fueled by Bernanke's sheer money creation, has been bogus all along.

Tuesday, August 09, 2011

U.S. Dollar Debt Crisis, Vested Interests Bad Mouth Gold / Stock-Markets / US Debt

By: James_Quinn

"Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened." - Ron Paul

Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Here Comes Stock Market 2008.2: My 5 Canaries / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: JD_Rosendahl

I’ve been telling friends and family the past couple of months that 2008.2 is coming, and it may have started with the recent sell off in the stock market.

I have 5 things (Canaries) that I’m listening to too, to let me know we are in serious economic trouble, where the economy and stock market could have another period like 2008 or worse.

Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Sometimes Doing Nothing is Doing Something, How to Find the Stock Market Bottom / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: George_Maniere

Yesterday I had a dozen readers write to me asking if we should we be buying into the market now or commenting on what great bargain prices these stocks are selling for. I have written many times that "sometimes doing nothing is doing something". I told them that the hardest thing to do when the market sells off 634 points is to do nothing. I will explain why.

Tuesday, August 09, 2011

S&P's Ill-Advised Downgrade Ushers in Stock Market Buying Opportunities / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011

By: Money_Morning

Kent Moors writes: A number of years ago, Standard & Poor's (S&P) gave me a desk in one of their offices on Wall Street. In those days, I was providing energy analysis for a short-lived S&P publication called Emerging Global Markets.

I never felt comfortable in that office. Actually, whenever possible, I avoided going there.

Tuesday, August 09, 2011

S&P U.S. Credit Rating Downgrade: Where to Now? / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2011

By: Brian_Bloom

The credit rating of the world’s largest economy has been downgraded. That is a fact. Neither hand wringing nor stone throwing nor “I told you so” will be constructive under current circumstances. The overriding question is: What is the appropriate response?