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Stock Market Poised for a Flash Crash :: The Market Oracle …

Stock Market Poised for a Flash CrashStock-Markets / Financial CrashApr 15, 2015 – 07:56 PM GMTBy: Anthony_CherniawskiMy earlier thesis of an unfinished retracement in SPX hit the nail on the head. Note that it didn’t go above the March 23 high, verifying the weakening uptrend. I recalibrated the Megaphone formation and verified it as an Orthodox Broadening top rather than […]

Have Short Sellers Given Up On Solar Stocks? – First Solar, Inc …

Related FSLRBy 2016, All Solar Investors Will Know The Name ‘8point3’New ETF From BlackRock And EdelmanEnergy Yieldcos On The Rise(Investor’s Business Daily)Related RGSEEarnings Scheduled For March 31, 2015SolarCity, Sunedison Earnings Drag Down Solar SectorShort sellers shied away again from many of the leading U.S. solar-related stocks between the March 13 and March 31 settlement dates. The most significant downswings in […]

Today's Stock Market Rally Only Makes Things Worse :: The Market …

Today’s Stock Market Rally Only Makes Things WorseStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015Apr 06, 2015 – 05:18 PM GMTBy: Anthony_CherniawskiThe Primary Dealers are using this morning’s action as another selling opportunity. A lot of retail traders had layered in buy orders all the way down to 2050.00 which may have been filled on Friday. This is a ready market for the […]

Bad jobs, Good Friday to pressure stocks Monday – CNBC.com

Belski: Not surprised by jobs, Fed still raises later 2015
The U.S. added 126,000 jobs in March. Brian Belski, BMO Capital Markets, doesn’t think the bad jobs number will affect the Federal Reserve raising rates later this year.
U.S. stocks will likely plummet on Monday, especially with the disappointing March jobs report.Markets are closed on Good Friday, and the Monday afterwards is […]

Stock market volatility par for the financial course – The News Journal

Published: Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 5:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 9:27 a.m.
With the nation’s equities markets roiling with volatility these days, some investors are getting nervous. Fueling those concerns are the prospect of an increase in interest rates, sluggish gross domestic product growth and global concerns from the Eurozone to the Middle East. But the view […]

Is the Rally in Biotech Stocks Finally Over?

Momentum Stocks: Caution Ahead (Part 4 of 6)(Continued from Part 3)Another case in point is biotech.Biotech is another obvious example of the momentum trade. It is a high “beta” or risky industry that has been a strong relative performer for many years. Through the close of the week ended March 20, the Nasdaq Biotech Index had surged 20% year-to-date. The following […]

Thai online stock trading surges, trumps Hong Kong in popularity …

Online retail trading surged 239 percent to Bt1 trillion ($30.72 billion) in February from a year earlier, the latest available data from the stock exchange shows. That was the biggest increase since March 2010. Those transactions account for over 40 percent of total trading volumes, up from 27 per cent in 2012. That ratio exceeds even Hong Kong, where retail […]

Stock Market About Ready to Crash! :: The Market Oracle :: Financial …

Stock Market About Ready to Crash!Stock-Markets / Financial CrashMar 29, 2015 – 06:21 PM GMTBy: Brad_GudgeonLast time, I talked about there being one more rally left and then the market would drop big. I see no change in that outlook (after looking over the Gann Cycles from last Monday, I have determined that the next top would be April 2). […]

Wall Street talking market reversal – CNBC.com

Something rare is happening in the market
Jonathan Krinsky, MKM Partners, turns a technical eye on the S&P to get a read on “three black crows” and whether the negative trend will continue. And CNBC’s Courtney Reagan and the Futures Now Traders Scott Nations and Jeff Kilburg have a short trade on the S&P’s anomaly.
Stocks erased their early losses, spurring some […]

How to trade the riskiest stock out there – CNBC.com

On a weak day for the markets Wednesday, one of the year’s worst performers proved to be a bright spot.Lumber Liquidators was up more than 10 percent and traded 57,000 options contracts. That might not seem like a lot compared to the Apples and Facebooks of the world, but it is substantially more than its much larger home improvement store […]