This CNN/Money story about how a peak in the number of new highs for individual stocks (as shown below) consistently spells trouble for broad equity market indexes almost a year later is probably of little concern to those who bid share prices higher in recent days as all major U.S. stock indexes turned in big gains this week after last […]
Business Insider/Matthew Boesler (data from Bloomberg)Chart 1.Bespoke Investment Group presents a variant of the above chart in a blog post on its website: America’s share of world market capitalization has dropped sharply since around March 20, mirroring the rise that occurred over the preceding month.To what extent is this a U.S. story as opposed to a rest-of-the-world story?The next chart […]
ZeroOne on FlickrThe market has been shaky for awhile now, but today it just got real.
The NASDAQ crashed 3%. The S&P fell about 2%. The Dow dropped over 260 points.So here’s the weird thing. There’s really no “story” associated with this selloff, which is a point noted by Jesse Livermore on Twitter.Now let’s be clear, usually stories that explain market […]
JPMWe recently posted the latest slide deck from JPMorgan Asset Management, which has a number of charts relating to both the market and the economy. It’s a useful thing to flip through as Q2 gets under way.Two charts really stand out, as it pertains to the market. The above charts shows the S&P going back to 1997, and if you […]
This week’s cover story recounts the origins of IEX, a new stock exchange that hopes to level the playing field among investors, let some disinfecting sunshine in on the shadowy world of high-frequency trading and spur Wall Street to follow its lead. But a non-engineering, non-algorithm-writing type might be forgiven for finding it hard to understand the technological and financial […]
After the announcement of Michael Lewis’ new book (which I don’t have a copy of, and I am not asking for one), together with a variety of interviews, he declared that the stock market is rigged. This is a convenient finding that will gladden the hearts of many who have tried the markets and lost. The trouble is, there are […]
The U.S. stock market is rigged, with elite traders buying access to a high-speed network that allows them to figure out what you’ve just ordered, order it first, then raise the price before your order is complete.And according to Michael Lewis, author of a new book about high-frequency trading called “Flash Boys,” this form of “front running” is completely legal. […]
LTC/BTC Technical Analysis – 28th March 2014 By Ashton Fraser on March 28, 2014 in Trading During my last technical analysis for Litecoin vs Bitcoin on the 26th of March, I mentioned how the 23.6% Fib level could be a struggle for price to go beyond. Indeed, not only was it a struggle, it was outright rejection. On Wednesday […]
NMC/USD Technical Analysis – 28th March 2014 By Ashton Fraser on March 28, 2014 in Trading Namecoin loses more than 25% of its value in just over 24 hours, although this morning sparked some significant recovery. Let’s take a closer look at the NMC/USD intraday M30 chart below (click to expand): I’ve performed the Fibonacci study from the […]
SummaryReports say authors may have been paid to write favorable articles about micro/small cap biotechs.
Plenty of people contribute content who clearly don’t know what they are doing.
The writing world has gotten flatter.
by Roger Nusbaum AdvisorShares ETF StrategistThere was an interesting […]
