Stock Market Uptrend Looks UnderwayStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 17, 2014 – 01:25 PM GMTBy: Tony_CaldaroThe market opened the week with a gap up to SPX 1945, pulled back to 1928 by tuesday, then gapped up twice more during the week to hit 1964 on friday. Then some geopolitical news spooked the market and it sold off to SPX 1942 […]
Mark Lennihan/APYale Professor Robert J. Shiller has a new piece examining the market up at The New York Times in which he notes that stocks are indeed expensive:The United States stock market looks very expensive right now. The CAPE ratio, a stock-price measure I helped develop — is hovering at a worrisome level.I wrote with some concern about the high […]
What are the factors that drive short-term returns in the stock market?It’s an important question for short-term traders obviously, but also for longer-term market participants, as the execution of one’s positions ultimately has a significant role in determining profitability. This is especially true in situations where longer-term participants face a mandate to keep losses at a minimum. The demands of […]
Argentina: Rioro SA has been awarded a 166m pesos contract to repair 28 type CT16A wagons for Belgrano Cargas y Logística. This and a 60m pesos contract to repair 10 CT54 wagons are being undetaken by the Rioro workshops at Pérez.Brazil: Porto Alegre metro operator Trensurb has awarded CAF Brasil a R$79·7m contract to maintain its 25 four-car trainsets for […]
When it comes to the stock market, while the biggest, and according to many only, beneficiary of the Fed’s ZIRP/QE policies of the past 6 years has been the wealthiest 1%, the reality is that said top crust of US society no longer needs the S&P to continue its relentless, manipulated and centrally-planned levitation.Between a third Hamptons residence, a 5th […]
Stock Market Ukraine-Triggered Volatility, But a Flat FinishStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 16, 2014 – 04:13 PM GMTBy: PhilStockWorldCourtesy of Doug Short: Today was a busy one for economic updates: the Producer Price Index, Industrial Production and Consumer Sentiment. But the market was primarily focused on the international scene — most notably the conflict in Ukraine. The S&P 500 rose […]
Stock Market Gap To Gap…Hit The Top…Reversal….Nothing For Either SideStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 16, 2014 – 04:05 PM GMTBy: Jack_SteimanThe market came off the bottom with a series of gap ups as it back tested lost 20- and 50-day exponential moving averages. The big question was would those moving averages get taken back out or would those levels act […]
Stock Market Investors Conditioned To Catch The Falling KnifeStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 16, 2014 – 04:03 PM GMTBy: Raul_I_MeijerThat’s not a bad metaphor to work with. “Conditioned to catch the falling knife”. The expression comes from the investment world, but it describes a much larger world today pretty accurately.Investors use it to describe people who see a stock fall, […]
Recent posts have focused on improved versions of standard market indicators, including sentiment, Bollinger Bands, VWAP, and ticks. One of my most challenging projects, however, has focused on the creation of measures of buying and selling pressure in the stock market. My goal in creating this measure was to follow an intuition and treat supply and demand as separate, independent […]
Does George Soros see the same potential collapse in the US stock market that I am warning about in the EPJ Daily Alert?The most recent 13-filing that George Soros submitted to the SEC showa a major increase of 605% increase in his short position against the US stock market via an S&P 500 PUT positio on the SPDR S&P 500 […]
