It’s part of the daily routine by now: the S&P 500 index rose to another all-time high. We’ve been confronted with this miracle for a long time. The last correction when the index dropped over 10% was, well, if anyone can even remember, in 2011. And it shows.Every single bearish call on the S&P 500 has been punished with a […]
Dow Countdown To Stock Market MeltdownStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jun 04, 2014 – 10:58 AM GMTBy: Austin_Galt
“It’s not timing the market but time in the market”. Yep, we’ve all heard this refrain from market commentators on TV disguised as experts. Some go even further saying it’s impossible to time the market. Well, what a […]
Stock Market Chop, Sadly Continues…..ISM Numbers Changing Unexpectedly…. Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jun 03, 2014 – 10:27 AM GMTBy: Jack_Steiman
I find it annoying. How about you? Do you enjoy this nonsense? I don’t, but this is what we have and must accept. The market tried hard to sell decently today. The Nasdaq was down over thirty points, […]
Stock Market Rally – Is this the End?Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jun 03, 2014 – 10:25 AM GMTBy: John_Rubino
Eventually, every finance geek learns that calling market tops — at least publicly — is so hard that it’s not worth the reputation risk. This is especially […]
We’re going to open this week with a discussion of one aspect of market psychology that we hope you’ll find interesting.We believe it’s worthy of discussion because it happens often enough to be chartable, and, to a fairly great degree, its outcome is also predictable.It’s quite simply the phenomenon of the sideways moving market.Time Frames and Market Patterns We should be […]
Stock Market Approaching A Short-Term TopStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jun 02, 2014 – 11:03 AM 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 […]
One of the great pleasures of studying human behaviour is to see that what we find in our experiments, what we theorize in our papers and textbooks – as unlikely and counterintuitive it appears to be – actually predicts what happens in so-called real life. Take, for instance, the current build-up of a stock-market bubble in the UK, happening even […]
How to Play This Flat Stock MarketStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014May 31, 2014 – 04:39 PM GMTBy: Investment_U
Alexander Green writes: More than a few investors are scratching their heads over the Dow’s performance so far in 2014.It stumbled out of the gate in January and February, then rallied from March through mid-April, then gave up the ghost […]
Stock Market New High Blasts ‘Sell in May and Go Away’ Bears ExpectationsStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014May 31, 2014 – 07:30 AM GMTBy: Nadeem_Walayat
Even before May began the mantra of ‘Sell in May and Go Away’ had built up into a crescendo by the blogosfear that always sees a trend, any trend be it bull or bear […]
Stock Market Over 85 Years – Has the Fed Produced Any Benefits?Stock-Markets / US Stock MarketsMay 30, 2014 – 10:14 AM GMTBy: EWI
By Robert PrechterHas the Fed Produced Any Benefits?
The Fed has benefited the
government
mightily. Its exchange of new accounting units for the Treasury’s bonds
has stealthily transferred value from savers’ […]
