Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Stock Market Still Deluding Itself That It Can Escape The Inevitable Dénouement / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
By: John_Mauldin
One of my favorite analysts is Albert Edwards of Societe Generale in London. Acerbic, witty and brilliant. Emphasis on brilliant. The fact that he is a Doppelganger for James Montier (who long time readers are well acquainted with) is a coincidence (or he would say vice versa). I only kind of have permission to forward this note to you, but better to ask forgiveness… So, this week he is our Outside the Box. And a short but good one he is.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Stock Market Nice Start to Week as Indices Hold Most of Their Gains / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices opened with a bang today on big gaps up, ran up sharply to new rally highs, and backed off mid-day to test. When that was successful, they came on again in the afternoon and went to new highs on the Nasdaq 100, but did not do so on the S&P 500, and then backed off in the last five minutes to peel back from the highs, but still a positive gain.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Stock Market Bears Feeling The Pain... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
What else can you say if you've been taught to short the market just because of seasonality, and because you're told over and over just how things are out there. Playing seasonality is the worst thing you can do. Markets simply don't work that way all the time, or even close, really. Not only that, but even the worst month, September, is only down an average of about 1%. So many people look at the calendar and make their bets based on it. I just don't get it. If the market is on a sell signal then so be it. Doesn't matter if it's September, or February, or any other month. No different if there's a buy signal in place. Whatever message is sent out at any moment in time is all that should be thought about by traders.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Stock Market Deflationary Dreams, Reflationary Reality / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Steven_Vincent
(originally published 09/06/10-09/12/10 for BullBear Trading members) - In the last BullBear Weekend Report I called for an important bottom and a sharp rally and we did get just that. We are now long from SPX 1048. Technicals indicate that the rally has further to go both in the short and intermediate terms. There are significant indications that a long term bottom has been put in place and that at a minimum a revisit of the April highs is possible. So far there are little if any indications that a bear trend will resume any time soon.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Stocks With China Economic Growth Connections / Stock-Markets / China Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
China's growth prospects have brightened, as we look at in detail in our video this week, and here are charts of a number of stocks which may benefit from China's move.
One is United States Steel Corp. (X), which should benefit from China procurement of steel and heavy building materials. U.S. Steel has a pretty nice pattern, somewhat similar to the Shanghai Composite Index. U.S. Steel had an initial up move, got hung up at 50-51, pulled back, and now looks like it is ready to go again, holding its shorter-term moving averages and looking like it could be in a position to attack again the 200-day moving average, which isn’t falling, by the way, but rather rising.
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Monday, September 13, 2010
Taxes, Basel III, Gold & Going to College? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: PhilStockWorld
Interesting Gallup poll: Only 1 in 3 Americans actually favor keeping tax cuts for the top 2% (people making over $250,000 a year). As Barry Ritholtz says, that may come as a shocker to anyone who watches CNBC or reads the Journal or Fox or other conservative information sources. Maybe the Democrats aren’t so crazy pushing this as the focus of the upcoming election.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Stocks Bulls Continue to Run... / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market
By: Mark_McMillan
The bulls continue to press stocks higher with 200-DMAs representing potential break out levels...
Recommendation: Take no action.
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Monday, September 13, 2010
A Diluted Dose of Basel III Cheers Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: PaddyPowerTrader
US stocks pared gains Friday after former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said the US and European economies may take years to recover from the recession. The S&P 500 Index rose 0.2 percent in New York, paring earlier gains of as much as 0.6 percent after wholesale inventories rose more than forecast and oil climbed to near a three-week high. Chevron Corp. and Halliburton both rose at least 1.9 percent as crude oil gained the most in six weeks. Moody’s Corp. jumped 5.9 percent after Piper Jaffray & Co. raised its rating on the stock. National Semiconductor Corp. slumped 6.4 percent after forecasting sales that missed analysts’ estimates. Dell Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc. sank at least 2 percent after Morgan Stanley cut its recommendations for the shares.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Why Investors Need to Pay Attention to These Emerging Markets / Stock-Markets / Emerging Markets
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes:
The U.S. market showed improvement last week, but is still falling short of the continued growth and profit opportunities that emerging markets have to offer.
Stocks inched higher on Wall Street over the past week, taking heart from news of a modest improvement in jobs and a narrowing of the U.S. trade deficit. Both acted to counter the argument that the U.S. economy is speeding for a cliff in a foreign-badged car.
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Monday, September 13, 2010
Stock Market Index Challenging Its Intermediate Downtrend / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
Very Long-term trend - Down! The very-long-term cycles are down and if they make their lows when expected, the bear market which started in October 2007 should continue until about 2014-2015.
SPX: Intermediate trend.The index is now challenging its intermediate downtrend and has closed outside of its downtrend line. The move could signal a new intermediate uptrend, or the continuation of an intermediate sideways consolidation
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Monday, September 13, 2010
Stock Market $SPX, $VIX, and the Elliott Wave Terminal Diagonal Analysis / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: JD_Rosendahl
This weekend I'm going to highlight one of the potential stock market patterns. First let's look at the market with a possible Elliott Wave Wedge forming in the wave B position.
$SPX: We have (abc) down into wave A, and we are forming what looks like (abcde) sideways into what looks like wave B. If this is the case, we could have a little more upside splashing above the 200 day MA and closing a little gap at price resistance. Then, we should expect wave C lower if the structure holds this view. The price target in this view is roughly 930.
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Sunday, September 12, 2010
Stock Market Waiting for the Fat Lady! / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
By: Dr_John_Trapp
ES has been crawling higher, delaying a correction that is inevitable. So we are waiting for the fat lady to sing and announce that W3 is over and a substantial W4 is underway. I warn against being premature with a short, since timing is everything. My charts are always a little funky around contract rollover dates since the continuous symbol does not always chart out the same as the current contract and the underlying index. I am using the December contract for my charts. I think it is the most accurate data.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Stock Market Dancing At The Breakout.... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Jack_Steiman
The stock market has been hanging around the upper end of its trading range for a while now. It seemingly doesn't want to pull back very much, but clearly it is struggling to make the bigger move up and out above 1105. Small sticks as we get closer and closer to making the move bulls so sorely want. Yesterday was interesting. It was able to close over 1105, but it's hard to get very excited. You have to wonder why it's so hard for either side to make a larger move. The bears seem unable to take it down, although they are holding the line. Normally, when a market struggles to make the big move up and out, the other side will come in hard and reverse the trend. Doesn't matter which way that is.
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Sunday, September 12, 2010
The Stock Market VIX Indicator to Gauge and Profit from the Market’s Mood / Stock-Markets / Volatility
By: Investment_U
Karim Rahemtulla writes: After you’ve read this article, the next time someone asks you, “Hey, how’s the market looking?” you’ll know what to say – and sound smart saying it!
Not only that, the information I’m about to share with you will also give you a valuable clue as to when to buy and sell your stocks.
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Sunday, September 12, 2010
Max Keiser on the Monetary Warfare Between the Bankrupt States of America / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Videos
This week Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the scandals of no fiscal or monetary bullets left in the bankrupt warfare states of America. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Huffington Post blogger Mike Jensen, in Chicago, about his call for Americans to unite against the emergency in their nation.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Marc Faber Says Prepare for October Stock Market Plunge / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Videos
Marc Faber Says Prepare for October Stock Market Plunge to be followed by a rally into the end of the year. More Quantitative Easing may not please the markets.
Marc as usual continued to recommend Gold, and also expects agricultural commodities to eventually trend higher.
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
Stock Markets At Ideal Consolidation Point / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: David_Grandey
What we really want to key in on here is that of the 60 minute index charts that have served us so well over the past few years.
One look at the S&P 500 and you see the 78.6% Fibonacci level we talked about over the weekend. Yesterday we tagged it and immediately got a downside reaction off of it.
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
Stock Market Rally Getting Ridiculous, Gold Potential Double Top / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Elevated unemployment is here to stay. - (Bloomberg) The U.S. economy will slow more than previously estimated through next year as elevated unemployment tempers consumer spending and companies trim investment plans, economists surveyed by Bloomberg News said.
Economists’ dimmer outlook is at odds with that of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, who said conditions are in place for a pickup in growth next year. Survey participants also pushed back the timing of the Fed’s first rate increase to the fourth quarter of 2011 from the prior three months.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Behold! A New Stock Market Chart Pattern to Consider / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
By: Barry_M_Ferguson
To those of us who consider ourselves 'technical analysts', we are always perusing charts for known patterns to help forecast trend lines. Our world is limited to a relatively few established patterns that have been studied for centuries. However, we must all understand that economies change, markets change, and primary market influences change. It follows that technical patterns should also change and expand.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Thinking Stock Market Cycles Not Endless Trends! / Stock-Markets / Cycles Analysis
By: Sy_Harding
The favorite forecasting tool of economists and investors is to extend whatever are the current conditions and recent trends in a straight line into the future. I was reminded of that by an article in this week’s Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, which began with the following;