Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Miss the Stock Market Rally? Currencies an Alternative Investment Class / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009

By: Bryan_Rich

I normally talk only about currencies here in my Money and Markets column. But today I want to address some commonly held misconceptions many investors have about how their investment portfolios should be performing in today’s market.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Stock Market S&P 500 Index Vulnerable to Downside Test of Lower Bollinger Band / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Mike_Paulenoff

The juxtaposition of the Bollinger Bands with the price structure has caught my attention ahead of the weekend. Let¹s notice that since Wednesday¹s peak at 1075.75, which reversed from just beneath the upper BB, the S&P 500 emini price declined directly towards the rising 20-day moving average, which represents the mid-point between the upper and lower BBnds. Within a bull trend accompanied by rising momentum (RSI), it is typical of a decline to hold in and around the 20 DMA and then turn to the upside to continue to higher-highs. Such was the case during April, May and then again from mid-July to the present.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Stock Market Third Consecutive Down Session / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Harry_Boxer

The indices were down again for the third consecutive session, which is the first time in quite a while, and may have confirmed the the post-FOMC announcement reversal that took place on Wednesday may have turned out to be a significant top.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Stock Market Trend Up But Tired / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Peter_Navarro

[Thanks to all of for buying Always a Winner last Friday. You helped the book make the Top 100 in business and investing books!!!]
I had the great pleasure of meeting one of my CNBC favorites last week at a conference, Bob Pisani. What I love about Bob is his opinion-free market analysis that is based on facts rather than rants.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Stock Market Reverses Down Off of Uptrend Channel / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Jack_Steiman

The market has been on a move higher the past couple of weeks but with one major difference over the move up the previous weeks and months prior to that as was noted in last weeks report. Late last week the market started to print Doji Candlesticks, often a precursor to a change in trend move up against major trendline resistance which can be seen in our three index charts. The recent move up had become a grind. Like glass on a blackboard.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Stock Market SELL Signals and Inflation Missing from 2010 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2009

By: Nadeem_Walayat

Early in the week I went hunting for signs for high UK inflation in the analysis -UK Inflation Forecast, Will RPI Deflation Return to Inflation? However despite zero interest rates and all the money printing to date, I was surprised not to find it, not for 2009 and not for the whole of 2010! and given the double dip depression (more on this tomorrow), probably beyond. What does this mean ? It means the Bank of England NEEDS to act to CREATE inflation AHEAD of the double dip Depression (again more on this tomorrow).

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Stock Market Cycles and the Big Picture  / Stock-Markets / Cycles Analysis

By: Tim_Wood

I have recently received a few e-mails asking about cycles and their application to the market.  So, in today’s wrap up I will attempt to present a brief and very simplified explanation of how cycles can be used as a very powerful technical tool once they are understood.   I will then apply this simplified cyclical concept to the market.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Surmounting The Cartels’ ‘End Game’ Juggernaut, An Overview & Update Of Cartel Strategy / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation

By: DeepCaster_LLC

“The sun is setting on the US dollar as the ultra-loose monetary policy of the US Federal Reserve forces China and the vibrant economies of the emerging world to forge a new global currency order, according to a new report by HSBC.”

Friday, September 25, 2009

e-Mini S&P Pressing Against Support / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Mike_Paulenoff

With just over two hours remaining in today’s session, let’s notice that the S&P 500 emini futures is pressing against key support at 1039, which represents the lower channel trendline off of the July low. If the index closes today’s session either leaning against or below 1039, then the technical set-up will take on a considerably more bearish tilt that will point towards additional weakness into the 1032 area directly.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Global Stocks Markets Navigating Eye of the Financial Crisis Hurricane / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: Andy_Sutton

As global stock markets navigate through the eye of the ongoing financial hurricane, it becomes increasingly important for investors still impacted by these markets to be able to gauge when the storm’s fury will reassert itself and plan accordingly. By all measures, there are a healthy number of individual investors still in the stock markets in one way or another who are hoping to recover everything lost in 2008.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Stock Market Rally Running Out of Time / Stock-Markets / Articles

By: MarketTimingCycles

We are running out of time. Time is more important than price. When a cycle top or bottom is due the Stock Market will turn regardless if price targets have been reached.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Stock Market Dip Brings Out the Buyers / Stock-Markets / Stock Market Sentiment

By: Guy_Lerner

Yesterday's mini sell off has brought out the dip buyers. At least this is what we can infer from our Rydex market timers.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Stock Market Looks For More Down Side, Rimm Slaughtered On Earnings / Stock-Markets / Stock Index Trading

By: Jack_Steiman

We had a nice one day plus pullback from yesterday's highs. 200 Dow points from high to low. Nice selling when we suddenly ran into the 20-day exponential moving average on the S&P 500 at 1043 (1045 low today).

Friday, September 25, 2009

Stock Market Rally Mission Accomplished / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Guy_Lerner

Now that the stock market has moved over 50% higher in the past 6 months, there are two words that would best describe where we are now: "mission accomplished". Of course, we all remember President George W. Bush in the early months of the Iraq War standing on the deck of a Navy ship with those two words emblazoned on a banner in the background. Little did we know, that "mission accomplished" really meant mission just getting started. In any case, I use those words because the Federal Reserve and Treasury have engineered a recovery and in particular, a stock market recovery, that has brought prices back to levels seen in early October, 2008 when Lehman Brothers collapsed sending the world economy into a tailspin (sic: sorry words of the "media").

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Canada the Best Investment in North America, Not the United States / Stock-Markets / Canadian Stock Market

By: Money_Morning

Martin Hutchinson writes: The U.S. stock market has run up magnificently in the last six months. The U.S. economy has begun to recover, but its performance has fallen short of expectations.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Stocks Bull or Bear Market, Case for a Bull Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bull Market

By: Hans_Wagner

Is this a bull or bear market? After a rally of more than 50% by the S&P 500, some investors are debating the question of bull market versus bear market. Moreover, those of us who have benefited from this rally are taking the prudent step to evaluate whether this is a bull or bear market.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Five Hot New International ETFs To Consider / Stock-Markets / Exchange Traded Funds

By: Ron_Rowland

Today, much of the world’s economic growth is outside of the U.S. So for now at least, many (and maybe most) of the compelling investment opportunities are outside the U.S., too.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

140th Year Anniversary of Black Friday 1869 Banking Panic, History Repeating? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash

By: GoldCore

Today is the 140 Year Anniversary of the original Black Friday on September 24th, 1869. Since then the word ‘Black’ has been used to describe any day that the stock market, currencies or financial markets have crashed. There have been many, many such crashes but the one that birthed the term happened on this day 140 years ago.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Stock Market, A Peter Pan Market / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market

By: Brian_Bloom

Only in Never Never Land can age and gravity be defied.  In the real world such ideas may be described as “escapist fantasies”.

There has been much debate in recent weeks regarding whether US Equities have entered a new Primary Bull Trend or whether we have been witnessing a bounce in a Primary Bear Trend.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Overbought Stock Market Corrects on Positive Fed Statement / Stock-Markets / US Stock Markets

By: Jack_Steiman

The market has been very overbought for quite some time. Sometimes it gets ridiculous to be blunt. Staying at levels of overbought you just don't see very often. We can see that, not only on the index charts, but on many regular stock charts such as Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG) to name just a few. Both of those issues printed, on the daily charts, RSI's just under 80 today. That's just silly. These readings can't go on forever.