Stock Market Holiday Rally Takes a Pause
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013Dec 28, 2013 – 01:13 PM GMTBy: PhilStockWorld
Courtesy of Doug Short: The S&P 500 went nowhere Friday, snapping its four-day winning streak with a fractional loss of 0.03%. Today’s inaction came on weak volume, and the 0.276% intraday range (percent change from the low to the […]
The market is open through the end of the week, and while stocks are moving at a snail’s pace Thursday afternoon, there are still some decent trading opportunities to take advantage of.
With the “Santa Rally” in full effect, let’s take a look at a quick trade in the Financials sector that is likely to be successful in the final four […]
A global resynchronized recovery is good news for corporate profits. But better profit growth is no longer news for the stock market because the S&P 500 has already discounted a 10% increase in forward earnings in the next 12 months. Therefore, if stock prices make continued advances, the expected price gains will have to primarily come from a multiple expansion.U.S. […]
Stock Market QE3 End Date Meaning
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013Dec 21, 2013 – 07:36 PM GMTBy: Toby_Connor
The market gapped up on Monday, rallied to SPX 1792 in the opening minutes, then pulled back until just after the FOMC statement at 2pm on Wednesday. After that the market soared right into […]
Stock Market Four Day Losing Streak Ends
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013Dec 17, 2013 – 06:56 AM GMTBy: PhilStockWorld
Courtesy of Doug Short: When the US stock exchange opened, world markets were a mixed bag. The Nikkei and Shanghai Composite had both closed with 1.6% losses, but the EURO STOXX 50 was up 1.7% on Markit’s strong Flash […]
Get Forex buy/sell signals directly to your email and by SMS. To learn more click hereEUR/USD Daily AnalysisDaily EUR/USD ChartThe main trend is up on the daily chart. The EUR/USD will turn down when 1.3524 is violated. The short-term chart indicates that a new minor bottom was formed overnight at 1.3709. The new short-term range is 1.3810 to 1.3709, making […]
Daily Technical Analysis – 13 December 2013December 13, 2013 by Craig Erlam in Technical analysisEURUSDThe consolidation in this pair over the last couple of days, which previously looked like a triangle – a continuation pattern – has now become a descending triangle. This is typically a bearish pattern, regardless of whether it appears in an uptrend or a downtrend, so […]
I’ve been working on gathering my thoughts for the market in 2014. This is a very useful exercise, in that it forces us to really think about what goes into stock prices, what those assumptions should be, and how they interact.There are three key variables here: the growth rate of the economy as a whole and the level and change […]
Business Insider/Matthew Boesler, data from BloombergFriday, the S&P 500 index snapped a five-day losing streak, and today, it’s trading just five points shy of its all-time high at 1813.
The index is now up more than 28% in the year to date, and many market strategists are sanguine on the prospects for stocks in the remaining few weeks of the year […]
Happy Friday, Friends. I’m always sorry to see the non-farm payrolls report go, as the volatility around it creates a great trading opportunity taught by Todd Mitchell as the “First Half Hour Breakout”. Like much of what Todd teaches, the method lends itself to additional uses, and data releases that tend to generate strong and rapid reactions from the market […]
