by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders The US majors are all nearly 1% higher for the day with the NASDAQ up over 2.25%. Our analysis of the markets was DEAD ON. We called the 2678 level on the ES as a key resistance level …
by Doug Kass * Adding to my large SPY short * Downside risk grows relative to upside reward I have been shorting (on a scale higher) SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) most of the day — adding to an already large short position. There …
by visualcapitalist In the original whitepaper, Satoshi Nakamoto envisioned Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash that would facilitate transactions without the oversight on a trustworthy, centralized party. Since then, cryptocurrency has surged in popularity as an asset class – …
by jessefelder Since putting in a major bottom in 2009, the U.S. equity market has dramatically outperformed the rest of the world. This may have something to do with the fact that the Fed explicitly encouraged greater risk taking on the …
Image by iStock/DNY59 From Jim Rickards, Editor, The Daily Reckoning: All financial crises are the same and different at the same time. They are the same when it comes to the dynamics of contagion, illiquidity, bank failures and the high-panic state …
By Charles Sizemore Tax season was a little more painful than usual this year. I sold some stock positions that I’d held for years and that had accumulated large capital gains. So, when I filed my tax return, I had …
by John Rubino Silver’s popping today. Which is what people following the futures market action have been expecting for several months now. Speculators – usually wrong at big turning points and almost always at least slightly net long silver – …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The Fed’s efforts to raise interest rates across the spectrum have borne fruit only in limited fashion. In the Treasury market, yields of longer-dated securities have not risen as sharply (prices fall when yields rise) as …
by Jim Rickards of Daily Reckoining Liquidity is the ultimate paradox in finance. It’s always there when you don’t need it and never there when you need it most. The reason is crowd behavior, or what mathematicians call hypersynchronicity (a fancy word for …
by Adam Hamilton of Zeal LLC The mega-cap stocks that dominate the US markets have enjoyed an amazing bull run. But February’s first correction in years proved things are changing. With that unnatural low-volatility melt-up behind us, it’s more important than ever to …
by northmantrader Following the exuberance in January and subsequent corrective actions in February and March and now into April there has been a lot of speculation that markets may have topped in this cycle or are in the process of topping. …
by M. K. Matthews, The Organic Prepper The stock market has a short memory as Syria fatigue sets in and the U.S. markets rally on Monday morning. But is the volatility truly over? Traders are breathing a sigh of relief that …
Source: Clive Maund for Streetwise Reports (4/14/18) Technical analyst Clive Maund examines stock market charts and discusses what he sees as possible consequences of the Syria strike. On the 6-month chart for the Dow Jones Industrials, it looks like it is rolling over …
via BI If Morgan Stanley’s US equity strategists are correct, the February sell-off in stocks was a glimpse of things to come. In a note on Thursday, the team of strategists led by Michael Wilson laid out their case for why …
from Financial Survival Network Danielle Park returns… The stock markets are in transition from ABB (Always be buying) to ABS (Always be selling). Unfortunately there’s going to be a lot of collateral damage along the way. Even if the markets don’t decide …
Volatility will rise again. It will catch people by surprise again. Stocks will feel the burn again. Again and again and again. Same cycles repeating. Do you believe that volatility will spike? Volatility can collapse a market. We saw just …
by Dana Lyons After more than a decade, the Vietnamese stock market is back at all-time highs. One of the unsung market stories of 2017 was the long-term breakout, or near-breakout, action in many emerging markets. This included several of the …
Insane Valuations On Top Of Insane Leverage The recent stock market volatility reflects the beginning of a massive down-side revaluation in stocks. In fact, it will precipitate a shocking revaluation of all assets, especially those like housing in which …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/984030230359748609 The S&P 500 is likely to have a great 1Q18 pic.twitter.com/gFQj7FJ1ZH — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) April 11, 2018 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/984009073225097219 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/983847406872727553 The Libor-OIS spread is still holding near the highest level in almost a decade as Libor keeps rising in …
It’s all coming to a head. A point at which we know the outcome of. If central bankers do as they plan, the stock markets will fall. If they print more money, stock markets will rise. Which will it be? …
I’ve shown many charts which lead up to this moment. Things keep happening in patterns and it crashes in the end. You don’t want to risk betting on it but ultimately it repeats over and over. This is one of …
Harry Dent Interviewed by Crush the Street Harry Dent breaks down the latest economic and geo political news in this important video, Harry shares his thoughts on the stock markets and potential crash which could make the 2008 crash look insignificant. TOPICS …
By Rodney Johnson “Always tell the truth.” In addition to being number eight on the Top 10 list of things we should always do, being truthful is just a great way to avoid trouble in life. You never have to …
The Big Six Banks’ out-of-control “Mobile Mortgage Specialists” on commission. By Stephen Punwasi, Better Dwelling: Bank executives are all of a sudden very vocal about foreign buyers. Strange timing, since a branch of the Government of Canada quietly dropped a report …
by Lance Roberts “Technically Speaking” is a regular Tuesday commentary updating current market trends and highlighting shorter-term investment strategies, risks, and potential opportunities. Please send any comments or questions directly to me via Email, Facebook or Twitter. In this past weekend’s newsletter, “Bulls Hang On By A Thread,” I …
LOL bezos is complaining about having to pay higher wages to employees Hypocrite much?? The editors of the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post say President Trump’s tight labor market – which is delivering historic wage increases and job opportunities to American …
Authored by Chris Wood via Grizzle.com, There has been a lot of talk about trade wars in recent weeks. But the biggest risk to the American stock market remains monetary tightening. The monetary tightening dynamic can be best seen in the ongoing …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the crashing Toronto real estate market as house prices drop harder than they have in 30 years. March sales in Toronto dropped 40% from last year, the lowest since …
BY PATRICK WATSON You may have noticed that stocks have stopped going straight up. That’s not a big deal by itself. Bull markets and high volatility can coexist, and often did until the last few years. The scary part is that …
