Stock Market Bearish IndexesStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jun 30, 2014 – 12:26 PM GMTBy: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the MarketSPX: Very Long-term trend – The very-long-term cycles are in their down phases, and if they make their lows when expected, there will be another steep decline into late 2014. However, the Fed policy of keeping interest […]
Someone once asked me to describe reversion to the mean in as simple terms as possible. My reply was if you know someone who’s normally ‘”mean” and then they are nice to you for a few days, chances are they’ll revert back to being mean. [Likewise, periods of high volatility tend to be followed by periods of lower volatility.] Conversely, […]
US Stock Markets Can’t Get No Respect ..BUT…Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jun 30, 2014 – 11:18 AM GMTBy: Rambus_Chartology
In this Weekend Report I’d like to show you some charts on the different US stock markets and some of the stronger sectors within the US markets. It seems like no one believes this […]
Stock Market Getting Frothy ?Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jun 28, 2014 – 08:04 PM GMTBy: Tony_Caldaro
The general market made a new bull market high on Tuesday at SPX 1968, dropped to 1945 by Thursday, and then rallied to 1961 to end the week. For the week the SPX/DOW were -0.35%, the NDX/NAZ were […]
Benchmarks ended Thursday’s trading session in the red following St. Louis Fed president James Bullard’s comments on a rate-hike. Bullard expects the key interest rate hike to take place sooner than anticipated. The blue-chip index had dropped as much as 119 points, before trimming losses in the post noon session. Economic data on personal consumption expenditure was weaker-than-expected. However, personal […]
Stock Market Down Day with Increased VolatilityStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jun 25, 2014 – 02:15 PM GMTBy: PhilStockWorld
Courtesy of Doug Short. Yesterday I pointed out that the last two S&P 500 sessions had the second and third smallest intraday ranges in two decades. Well today that changed. The intraday range (0.28% to -0.73%) increased to 1.02%, which […]
Louis Scott, Founder, Kiema Advisors”News really does matter but it matters in terms of the volatility it creates rather than the alpha that you can harvest.”
London – The idea that news flow can be
systematically traded is becoming widely accepted. And not just
for major news agencies commenting on planned announcements.
Increasingly, social […]
Stock Market Complacency – Quiet Quad Witch Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jun 22, 2014 – 12:13 PM GMTBy: Jesse
Today was a quad witch in stock option expiration and the day was very quiet with low volatility.Next week there is not much in the way of new economic news, with the third iteration of 1Q GDP […]
Does Earnings Growth Matter When it Comes to Stocks Trading Below Liquidation Value? By: Victor Wendl | Fri, Jun 20, 2014 SharePrintEmailThe retail public enjoys the storytelling of growth stocks and the financial
press is more than happy to fill that void. It is easy for an investor to fall
into what finance professor, Jeremy Siegel, refers to […]
Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichterThe S&P 500 stock index bumbles to new highs no matter what. But it has been a slog: serial GDP downward revisions forward and backward, unceremonious abandonment of “escape velocity” for the fifth year in a row, wars or civil wars in Ukraine and Iraq with consequences for gas supplies to Europe and […]
