Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Thursday, November 17, 2011
Stock Market Next Leg Down / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
Global markets appear to have completed their consolidation and now appear set for the next leg down.
After several weeks of stalling, today's movement on the broad-based NYSE Composite suggests that the index is expected to decline (Chart 1) over the next few days. Price support has been at 7350-7400. That level should be broken by early next week.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Stock Market Poor Action....Still In The Range..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
Today spoke volumes about the type of market we're in right now. It's a market that can't break out, seems to be clear to all of us now. A market that has been moving laterally is more of what we're seeing, but with today's action, we may be ready for some much deeper downside action. Let me explain.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Stocks Severe Bear Market Forecast 2012? / Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market
The stock market's 17-month drop into March 2009 erased all the gains in the Dow Jones Industrial Average since the late 1990s. That's a full decade's worth of gains.
And the two-week drop that ended August 9 basically wiped out all the gains from 2010 - 2011.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Why We Don’t Buy Stock Breakouts / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
New Stock Market Action is Right Around the Corner / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
If we were to get a Santa Claus rally ... How high could it go?
The answer can be found on today's chart as seen below ...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Stocks and Dollar Breakouts, Breakdowns & Supports / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
Yesterday I reported the breakdown of the Euro. This morning, the US Dollar is staging a breakout, having reached an overnight high of 78.60 in the futures. It appears to be finding support at or above its cycle top support/resistance at 78.30, which is a sign of strength. This is typical of an Elliott third wave, which appears to be beginning.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Are You Prepared For What’s Coming? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
Michael A Burnham writes: The US$ is the world reserve currency and a huge amount of it is used in international commerce and held in foreign banks. What is the real value of the US$ or any currency for that matter? Money is no longer backed by gold or anything other than “good faith”, thus coined “fiat currency". Whenever the US Treasury runs short of money, it auctions Treasury notes…IOUs. But since there are fewer interested buyers in the world today, it then borrows dollars, printed out of thin air, from the Federal Reserve, a privately owned banking consortium, in exchange for Treasury notes. Every dollar issued represents an instrument of debt. In your wallet, you will find a Federal Reserve Note and its value is quantified by what it can buy.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Stock Market, The Collapse of Wall Cycle #6 / Stock-Markets / Cycles Analysis
The late market analyst PQ Wall put forward a rather bold proposal concerning the regular business cycle, which is also known as the Kitchin cycle. Wall concluded that every business cycle subdivides into three sets of three smaller cycles, for nine total cycles. Based on PQ's contribution to market cycle research, this cycle is known as the Wall cycle. The Wall cycle ideally runs about 142 days in length, just over 20-weeks, but they often run shorter and longer than this ideal length in Fibonacci ratios of their ideal length.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Stock Market Entering Free Fall Territory? Read the Most Important Investment Report for 2012 / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
The stock market's 17-month drop into March 2009 erased all the gains in the Dow Jones Industrial Average since the late 1990s. That's a full decade's worth of gains.
And the two-week drop that ended August 9 basically wiped out all the gains from 2010 - 2011.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
China Still Key for Investors Despite Slumping Stock Markets / Stock-Markets / Chinese Stock Market
David Zeiler writes: Despite the recent downturn in China's stock market, investors need to remain focused on the profit-generating long-term growth potential of the Asian powerhouse.
The Shanghai Composite Index is down about 10% on the year, compared to a drop of less than 1% year-to-date for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Stock Market Boredom.....Going Nowhere..... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
It's painful mentally. We don't go anywhere. So many head fakes. There are many days, such as last Friday, that get you to thinking the breakout is upon us. There have been many days where you'd bet the house the bears are about to take over. Just think back to last Wednesday. No follow-through from either side of the coin. Both make headway, but neither can get the job done, and therefore, we continue to trade in a range with whipsaw the only word that really works to explain the markets action over the short- to medium-term.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Markets Taking Cue from the Euro / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
Ok then... after both houses of the Italian Government ratified the proposed austerity measures over the weekend, and Prime Minister Berlusconi resigned and Mario Monti was appointed as the Prime Minister-designate (ahead of forthcoming elections), let's notice that the Euro has taken a nosedive from Sunday evening's (euphoric?) high at 1.3815 (off of last Thursday's breakdown low at 1.3480).
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Savers Protect Your Deposits From Bankrupting Banks and Quantitative Inflation / Stock-Markets / Inflation
The Market Oracle NewsletterOctober 23rd, 2011 Issue #20 Vol. 5
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Monday, November 14, 2011
Stock Market Short-term Top in Sight, After New High / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
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 (which appears to have already started) into 2014.
SPX: Intermediate trend - The rally from 1075 has consolidated and is ready to make a new high, followed by another consolidation.
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Monday, November 14, 2011
Final Stock Market Rally Before the Big Leg Down is Near End / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
Back on October 3rd, I penned a public article forecasting a major low in the SP 500 to occur around 1088. The SP 500 had been declining from the 1370 highs this May and was in the 1130’s and nearing its final descent in a corrective pattern. The next day, the market bottomed intra-day at 1074 and closed north of 1100. Since that time, we have rallied impressively to a high of 1292, with a strong pullback to 1215, and now what I believe is the finally rally to a major top formation.
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Stock Market Important Short Term Juncture / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
Volatile week ends mixed to lower in world equity markets. After an 18 day, 20.3%, rally from SPX 1075 to 1293 the market has spent the past eleven trading days between 1215 and 1287. Positive economic reports for the week outnumbered negative reports, for the first time in many weeks, two to one. On the downtick: wholesale inventories, import/export prices and the monetary base. On the uptick: consumer credit, the twin deficits, consumer sentiment, the M1-multiplier, the WLEI and weekly jobless claims improved. For the week the SPX/DOW were +1.15%, but the NDX/NAZ were -0.15%. Asian markets declined 2.2%, European markets gained 0.5%, and the DJ World was -0.2%. Next week we have a slew of important economic reports, and it’s Opex week.
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Central Bank Turkeys Tell Tall Tales / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2011
As the calendar approaches the US holiday of Thanksgiving, we should all reflect on our blessings with thankful humility. For those of us fortunate enough to afford it, we will enjoy a traditional meal of turkey and vegetables. For those of us that seek capital appreciation through the stock markets, we should give thanks that we have money to invest, the brain power to direct our investments, and the courage to risk our capital. Most of all, we should be thankful that our world is now dominated with turkeys telling tall tales. The truth is ugly. Tall tales are pretty. The stock market responds to tall tales and the turkeys that disseminate them. Our brain power allows us to understand the truth and invest with the tall tales!
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Has the Stock Market Index Been Naughty or Nice? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
At the beginning of this week I warned readers that the market was extremely overbought and that a top could be forming. While it is still unclear whether a major top has formed, it is without question that we saw a major correction on Wednesday as yields on Italian debt caused margin requirement adjustments at the London Clearing House.
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Stock Market Cup With Handles Are Everywhere / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
While the news is all about Europe this and Europe that, we just look at the charts. And the charts are telling us that this might be the best time to buy stocks. Why? Because the indexes are sporting positive technical structure in tandem with many leading stocks.
But before we talk stocks, let’s talk about a simple way you can profit from the information below. If you don’t act, all of this information is meaningless.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
A Democrat In the White House is Better For Stocks? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2011
The lead-up to next year’s election will bring a lot of claims from both parties. I thought I’d check some likely ones to make sure I don’t fall into the ‘lazy trap’ of repeating popular beliefs as fact when they might not be.
I was more than mildly surprised by my research.