Stock Market Outlook: Holding pattern until the Fall!
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When there has been a nice market rebound, we should expect to hear the familiar refrain: It is a stock picker's market.This wise-sounding expression means that it is no longer good enough to "buy the market" whether through index funds or market stocks. It is time for some actual... Continue Reading
Submitted ByBill Luby
As far as I can tell, I have not yet posted about the use of Bollinger bands in conjunction a rate of change (ROC) indicator to identify volatility breakouts. In summarizing the action in the VIX over the course of the past two weeks, the chart below captures some of the drama in terms of 10%...
Submitted ByTim Price
“Alternative 1: on average there is more than one ownership claim on each gold bar conforming to London Good Delivery.. Essentially, the market operates on a fractional reserve basis.. If it is true, the next phase in the gold bull...
Submitted BySal Mangano
How awful was today's non-farm payrolls report?
Let's start with the bad news:
Nonfarm payrolls for October fell 190,000, which is worse than the decline of 175,000 that had been widely forecast.
Job losses for the previous month were upwardly revised to reflect nonfarm job losses of...
Submitted ByMichael Michaud
By D.R. Barton, Jr. of Van Tharp InstituteClick Here for Van Tharp Institute 2009 - 2010 Trading Workshops ScheduleIt’s been just a year since the credit / real estate bubble burst, and there is already serious discussion about another one...
Submitted BySal Mangano
On Monday I asked if semiconductors were a bargain yet. I proposed that very soon they would be and then the sector would be a clear Buy.
Quite frankly, the sector didn't quite fall as far as I thought it would and now today, in the midst of a tech resurgence based on Cisco's better than expected...
Submitted BySal Mangano
This post is announcing that Thursday's Swing Signals, Trend Leaders, Trend Busters and Gap Signals are now available at Alert HQ. All are based on daily data.
Today we have the following:
369 Swing Signals -- 367 BUY signals and 1 SELL Signal plus 1 Strong BUY.
81 Trend Leaders, all in strong...
Submitted ByTrader Mark
Apparently I missed the "going out of business" sale on stocks announced this morning. So we sell off late yesterday (bearish), and today - everyone wants back in.... ahead of an important announcement. Just like they did yesterday morning? What day is it again - this all looks...
Submitted ByBill Luby
Once a popular subject in this space, the VIX:VXV ratio appeared to be a casualty of the financial turmoil and record volatility spikes in October 2008, when the ratio spiked to record levels an generated a buy signal that turned out to be nothing short of a disaster. I was not yet ready to give...
Submitted ByMichael Michaud
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