Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Friday, May 07, 2010
Intermediate-term Weakness Ahead for Germany Index EWG ETF / Stock-Markets / European Stock Markets
While everyone is fixed on Greece (for good reason), why don’t we look at the pattern developing in the German equity market, just to keep an eye on the country within the EU that is on the hook for the lion’s share of money to be loaned to the PIIGS. After all shouldn’t the health of the creditor nation’s equity index be telling?
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Friday, May 07, 2010
Stock Market Investors Keep a Close Eye on VIX Investor Fear / Stock-Markets / Volatility
Historically, the “fear index,” or the VIX, had minimal impact on the price of precious metals. However, as investors forgo treasury bonds in search of even safer investments, the VIX is correlating very well with the price of precious metals.
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Friday, May 07, 2010
What Next? Financial Crises, Manipulated Markets and Investor Opportunity / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010
“If we do nothing, we’re headed for a real crisis.” Jack Bogle, Founder, Vanguard Funds
For several weeks we have been warning that an Equities Takedown was impending, culminating with last week’s Article entitled “Trap For Equities Bulls! Opportunity for Others”.
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Friday, May 07, 2010
Robert Prechter, What Do These 8 Technical Indicators Mean for the Stock Market? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
Editor's Note: The following article is excerpted from Robert Prechter's April 2010 issue of the Elliott Wave Theorist. For a limited time, you can visit Elliott Wave International to download the full 10-page issue, free.
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Friday, May 07, 2010
This Is For All You Stocks Bull Market Geniuses / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
Figure 1 is the "Dumb Money" indicator. This is the same indicator I show every weekend in our report on sentiment; the indicator will updated this weekend. The "Dumb Money" indicator looks for extremes in the data from 4 different groups of investors who historically have been wrong on the market: 1) Investor Intelligence; 2) Market Vane; 3) American Association of Individual Investors; and 4) the put call ratio.
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Friday, May 07, 2010
U.S. Market’s Stub Toes As Greece Debt Fear Spreads / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
I’ll be the first to admit that I do not know how the Greece debt crisis/saga will end. What I do know is that when the rating agencies first warned on Greece’s debt back in December this should have been when policy makers urgently started to develop contingency options (assuming some were not already in place). And while delaying any bailout may well have been a ploy to squeeze as much cooperation from Greece as possible, it is clear with panic spreading from the debt markets to the equity (and countless other) markets that this tactic has been played in full. The 16 euro-zone leaders are meeting today to try and finalize Greece’s bailout and stop contagion.
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Friday, May 07, 2010
Robert Prechter Stocks Bear Market Deadly Cycle Phase II Has Begun / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
"A Deadly Bearish Big Picture"
That's the headline Robert Prechter gave to his just-published Elliott Wave Theorist. You can read that entire 10-page issue right now -- for FREE!
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Friday, May 07, 2010
Marc Faber, Stock Market Crash Due to Stocks Rallying Too Far, Hit by Europe's Debt Crisis / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
Marc Faber, on Thursdays selloff in U.S. stocks. U.S. stocks tumbled the most in a year on concern Europes debt crisis will halt the global recovery.
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Friday, May 07, 2010
Stock Market Crash Connected With Yen, Ponzi Markets and Program Trading / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
Inquiring minds are digging deeper into the mysteries of Thursday's stock market plunge starting with an intraday chart of the Yen.
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Friday, May 07, 2010
Stock Market Crash Around The World In 11 Minutes! / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
Why are we saying 11 minutes? See the waterfall from about 2290 on this index? It took 11 minutes to go from there all the way around the world and back again in 11 minutes.
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Friday, May 07, 2010
Stock Market Micro Intraday Crash Shows Us Where The Safe Havens Are / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
WOW…. Now that was an exciting day in the market!!
This day will be talked about for years to come and the individual who hit the wrong button (“B” for billion instead of “M” for million) to sell billions instead of millions will have a tough time finding another job… Maybe this person can do commercials for Microsoft Windows showing how one simple key stroke can crash a system… lol
Friday, May 07, 2010
EXTEND & PRETEND: Shifting Risk to the Innocent / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
Markets never repeat themselves but they often rhyme. This rally feels like the same sonnet we experienced in 1987. As in a sonnet, it is following a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure.
In 1987 the rally began gaining steam in the spring when it already seemed overbought and extended. The rally had initially started in October 1986 at DOW 1400, but during the spring of 1987 it began to accelerate. It not only didn’t correct, but continued to gain momentum. Despite all the pundits saying it was about to correct, it just kept going up. By early fall the bears had capitulated and the public was scrambling to avoid missing further gains. They were quickly rewarded as the market moved even higher. No bad news, overextended fundamentals or technical warnings could stop the rise. The DOW was soon over 2700 for an approximate 93% rise.
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Friday, May 07, 2010
Dow Plunges 1000, Closes Down 347, in Historic Session / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
The stock market had an epic day Thursday as the indices rolled over in the morning, accelerated in the afternoon, and then plunged with a huge spike down on heavy volume, reaching a negative tick of nearly 1700. The Nasdaq 100 dropped from over 1960 to nearly 1750, or 210 points. The Dow dropped more than 1000 and the S&P 500 over 100 points. But a vicious snapback rally ensued, and they took back about two-thirds to 3/4 of the losses.
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Friday, May 07, 2010
Stock Market Crash More to Come / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
Dow Plunges Most Since 1987 Before Paring Losses - The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its biggest intraday loss since the market crash of 1987, the euro slid to a 14-month low and yields on Greek, Spanish and Italian bonds surged on concern European leaders aren’t doing enough to stem the region’s debt crisis. U.S. Treasuries surged.
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Friday, May 07, 2010
S&P 500 Loses 1150 in Crash, Panic, Confusion...Error? / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading
Today was a day I'll never forget. The most interesting day in my market life. What can one say when a market falls 1000 points on the Dow. Let's go over the set-up and how things worked out. What we can take from today ultimately.
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
Death, er… Debt Spirals; Blow Out and BLOW UP, The Sovereign Policies of Insolvency / Stock-Markets / Global Debt Crisis
As the currency and financial systems of the developed world’s social-welfare-states head towards their doom, the battles between King Kong (Mother Nature and Darwin) versus Godzilla (public servants and banksters) continue. After generations of defying the reality that you must produce more than you consume, the social welfare states are being presented with the bill for their unpayable social obligations.
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
Robert Prechter Stock Market Crash Alert "A Deadly Bearish Big Picture" / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
"A Deadly Bearish Big Picture"
That's the headline Robert Prechter gave to his just-published Elliott Wave Theorist. You can read that entire 10-page issue right now -- for FREE!
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
Stock Market Foolish Thursday, Through the Looking Glass / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2010
"If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there." - The Cheshire Cat
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
Stock Market Panic Dow Crash 1000 Points Before Fed Steps in to Buy / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
The sovereign debt crisis shock waves emanating out of Greece triggered a stock market Free fall crash today as the Dow sliced through support after support to all the way below Dow 10k, hitting a low of 9,872 before the Fed as part of the Plunge Protection Team (PPT) stepped in to halt the panic selling and triggering an equally phenomenal a 700 point reversal less than half an hour from today's close.
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
Stock Market Investors In the Land of the Blind / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
The first five charts are all showing signs of weakness.
The following is a summary of what they show:
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