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Understanding Options-Based Sentiment in the Stock Market

I’m currently working on creating better indicators of stock market sentiment. Above is a five-day moving average of the equity put/call ratio: the ratio of put volume traded for all listed individual stocks divided by their call volume (no index volume included; raw data from e-Signal). You can see that spikes in the ratio have corresponded pretty well with buying […]

Stock Advance-Decline Line Foretells Job Openings -Technical …

Back in 2011, I wrote about Why Even Fundamental Analysts Should Watch A-D Line, noting that the NYSE A-D Line is very strongly correlated to corporate profits.But because the A-D Line can be calculated each day in real time, whereas corporate profits are reported with a significant lag, in effect the A-D Line gives a leading indication for what the […]

OTC Trading Stock News: Amarantus Biosciences Holdings, Inc …

LONDON, August 5, 2014 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — LONDON, August 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ –Amarantus Biosciences /quotes/zigman/15870337/delayed/quotes/nls/ambs AMBS +11.40% recovered to close higher by 11% in heavy trading on Monday as shares traded two and a half times more than the daily average.  This comes on the heels of the stock falling almost 50% at the back end of last week’s […]

Australia stocks trade softer – MarketWatch

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Australian shares are trading weaker Tuesday morning, though off their early lows, with the S&P/ASX 200 /quotes/zigman/1653884/delayed AU:XJO +0.41% showing a loss of 0.2%. A retreat for stocks across Europe and the U.S. is weighing on the majority of the financials, with Australia & New Zealand Banking Group /quotes/zigman/180795/delayed AU:ANZ +0.57% /quotes/zigman/180794/delayed/quotes/nls/anewf ANEWF -0.28% and Macquarie […]

Gold, Silver and Stock Market 2014 Trend Change Due :: The …

Gold, Silver and Stock Market 2014 Trend Change DueCommodities / Gold and Silver 2014Jan 07, 2014 – 05:19 AM GMTBy: DeviantInvestor

The year 2013 was a great year for the S&P and a terrible year for silver and gold investors. There are many indications that it is time for […]

Sentiment Reaching Scary Extremes In US Stock Market: Time To …

Fear and greed — the two emotions that dominate the stock market. In 2008, as he was buying stocks during the depths of the financial crisis, Warren Buffett famously said that you want to be greedy when others are fearful.Of course the truth works the other way as well. You want to be fearful when others are greedy. The […]

Putting Biotech Stocks Under the Microscope – Barron's – Barrons.com

In 1996, fresh out Harvard, Rajiv Kaul went to work as an analyst covering biotechnology at Fidelity Investments. At the time, the sector was still considered a risky niche—the perfect project for the new guy. “Biotech was viewed like a lottery ticket,” says Kaul, 41. “It was something conventional investors shied away from.”
Where others saw uncertainty, Kaul saw possibility. After […]

Putting Biotech Stocks Under the Microscope – Barron's

In 1996, fresh out Harvard, Rajiv Kaul went to work as an analyst covering biotechnology at Fidelity Investments. At the time, the sector was still considered a risky niche—the perfect project for the new guy. “Biotech was viewed like a lottery ticket,” says Kaul, 41. “It was something conventional investors shied away from.”
Where others saw uncertainty, Kaul saw possibility. After […]