European bearish divergences
A series of multiple bearish divergence continue to be unresolved on most European markets. (Divergence occurs when the indicator fails to imitate the pattern on the price chart, a sign of trend...
View ArticleIs Artificial Intelligence Taking Over the Stock Market?
BY CRIS SHERIDAN on FinancialSense.com In case you weren’t aware, machines are now reading the news. Actually, a few thousand machines—probably more—may have already read and scanned what you’re about...
View ArticleTechnical damage
Although the title of the post is technical damage in the sense that major trendlines have been violently broken on today’s selloff, today’s move is something that has been brewing for quite some time...
View ArticleHedge Funds Capitulating Buy Most Stocks Since 2010 [Bloomberg]
By Nikolaj Gammeltoft and Whitney Kisling Hedge funds trailing the Standard & Poor’s 500 (SPX) Index for the last five months are giving up on bearish bets and buying stocks at the fastest rate in...
View ArticleStocktwits as Predictor [howardlindzon]
Posted by Howard on March 26th, 2012 on howardlindzon.com Over the past 18 months, there has been a growing body of research exploring whether the river of ‘tweets’ produced by Twitter has predictive...
View ArticleSoros Insider-Trade Appeal Rejected by Human Rights Court [Bloomberg]
Billionaire investor George Soros lost a challenge to his 2002 insider-trading conviction, with the European Court of Human Rights’s Grand Chamber refusing to review whether France had violated his...
View ArticleTrendlines intact, but showing bearish divergences. $RUT $SPX
Nothing to add. Charts say it all.
View ArticleWHY THE MARKET SWEET SPOT IS ENDING [Pragmatic Capitalism]
By Comstock Funds on Pragmatic Capitalism A growing number of indicators suggest that the market is running out of steam. Equities have been in a temporary sweet spot where investors have been...
View ArticleChart Of The Week: This Is Who Is Selling [Zerohedge]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/01/2012 11:59 -0400 As we have pointed out before, the ongoing market tension is so palpable it can be cut with a knife. As a reminder, institutional investors are now...
View ArticleKeep a Close Eye on Institutional Cash
BY PRIEUR DU PLESSIS I find the assets of institutional money-market fund, published by the Fed on a weekly basis, an extremely useful tool in determining the direction of the U.S. stock market....
View ArticleDE-LEVERAGING: BAD FOR EQUITIES, BUT GOOD FOR CREDIT [PragCap]
By Martin T., Macronomics “The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances – notably between the savers and the spenders – will require long and painful...
View ArticleTaking a Broad View – Three Charts [FinancialSense]
As read on http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/richard-russell/taking-a-broad-view-three-charts The following is an excerpt from Richard Russell’s Dow Theory Letters “Fools and fanatics are...
View ArticleShanghai Exchange to start Silver futures trading on May 10
BEIJING (Commodity Online): The Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) is all set to launch silver futures trading on May 10, 2012. China is one of the biggest producers and consumers of silver in the world....
View ArticleNikkei hits three-month low after France, Greece polls [Reuters]
(Reuters) – Japan’s Nikkei average shed 2.6 percent to hit a three-month low on Monday after elections inFrance and Greece raised concerns on whether struggling euro zone economies will continue to...
View ArticleEuropean Markets overview post French and Greek elections
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View ArticleStock Trading Is Still Falling After ’08 Crisis [nytimes.com]
By NATHANIEL POPPER Even though American stocks have doubled in price in the last three years, investors and traders large and small keep giving the market the cold shoulder. Trading in the United...
View ArticleGold Probing the $1550 Level [traderdannorcini]
Gold has continued to see further selling in today’s session with traders once again exiting “RISK” trades in favor of the “Growth Off” or RISK AVERSION trades. Long commodity positions, along with...
View ArticleRisk Aversion Money Flows Drop the HUI [Trader Dan]
he mining sector was weak to start the session even as some larger entities were attempting to force the S&P futures above the 1350 level. The problem was that gold could not move into the plus...
View ArticleA Million SPX Put Contracts Traded Today…a Contrarian Timing Signal [vixandmore]
From vixandmore.blogspot.com With a half hour to go in today’s trading session, over one million put contracts have already been traded on the S&P 500 index, which is about 2 ½ times the average...
View ArticleLearning to Trade from a Legend [rickackerman.com]
Rick asked me to fill in for a day, and I thought I’d give you some trading and life tips I learned from Victor Niederhoffer. Victor is, above all, a speculator. Like the infamous Jesse Lauriston...
View ArticleWall Street rises as central banks stand ready [Reuters]
(Reuters) – U.S. stocks jumped on Thursday after news major central banks are preparing coordinated action if the results of Greek elections this weekend generate turmoil in financial markets. The...
View ArticleApple to post fiscal Q4 miss on cannibalized Mac sales, analyst says...
By Mikey Campbell In a note to investors on Tuesday investment firm BMO Capital forecast Apple to post a significant miss for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2012 as Mac sales continue to be cannibalized...
View ArticleWhat If Stocks Decline? [vixandmore]
Successful investors are the ones that are always making plans for all sorts of contingencies, so it stands to reason that they should even prepare themselves for the possibility of stocks actually...
View ArticleMillion Dollar Traders Documentary: Hedge fund manager tries to teach...
Million Dollar Traders is a three part series that aired on the BBC about hedge fund manager Lex Van Dam who tries to teach ordinary people to become successful traders. The series is particularly...
View Article2013 – A Fantastic Stock Market Year? [ChartMill]
First of all our best wishes for 2013! We hope that you and your family may enjoy a fantastic health and have lots of wonderful and warm moments together! On a financial level we hope that 2013 will...
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