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Stocks continue to defy gravity, as the S&P finished today at a 17 month high. Amazingly, the S&P has completely retraced it’s most recent drop from January. The markets swung from quite oversold, to quite overbought, within the span of a month. Once again, we learned (the hard way) not to bet against the S&P […]
Here’s a great guest piece by Robert Prechter, author of what is currently my favorite investment newsletter, the Elliott Wave Theorist. Bob talks about a subject that’s probably as near and dear to your heart as it is mine – market herding. And if you want to read more, at the end of this piece […]
Burton Malkiel, author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street – because of course we all know that stock prices are subject to completely random movements – is starting a hedge fund to “go long China.” This story really is too good to be true. Chinese stocks quietly topped last August. Burton is timing the […]
Speaking of contrarian investment indicators, they don’t get much better than this. Fidelity.com posted a listing in a prominent public relations newsletter today: Summary: Buying stocks again?Name: Chris Taylor (Fidelity.com)Category: Business and FinanceEmail: query-100@helpareporter.comMedia Outlet: Fidelity.comDeadline: 07:00 PM EST – 20 JanuaryQuery: Looking for investors who are shifting some of their cash holdings back into […]
Regular readers know that I’m a big fan of Bob Prechter’s investment analysis. One of my favorite aspects of his work is the use of sentiment indicators as a market timing mechanism – that is, when everyone is bearish, you should be greedy, and when everyone is bullish, you should run for the hills. In […]
Trading is, as you know, an inexact science. So while we *think* it’s likely that the dollar has put in a major bottom, a cross above its 200-day moving average would significantly reinforce this hypothesis. The dollar tests it’s 200 day MA. (Source: WSJ.com) We’re not there yet, but we’re getting close. A push above […]
In today’s Growth Stock Wire, trader extraordinaire Jeff Clark takes a look at the use of Bollinger Bands in making trading decisions. Bollinger Bands don’t tell you which direction the stock is headed, but as the bands pinch closer together, they’re warning a large move is on the way. This is the best time to […]
The story of the investing week was the lack of confirmation of the new Dow and S&P highs by the secondary indices. Stock market tops often occur when sectors “peel away” from the up trend one by one, as fewer and fewer asset classes make new highs. While this is no guarantee of a top, […]
Did the intermediate top in stocks occur earlier this week? We won’t know for sure for many months, but it certainly COULD have been. The rally has been running on fumes for month, yet still moving upwards despite the naysayers (such as myself), as the S&P pushed above the 1100 mark (raise your hand if […]
With the DOW pushing to new 2009 highs yesterday, I was looking forward to today to see if the S&P could confirm the DOW’s push – which would indicate that this rally is still on. Yesterday’s push was quite impressive across the board, but thus far today, we have not yet witnessed any decisive follow […]
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