Bull/Bear?
Short Seller Update: Bears Mauled by Calendar TradesGloom and doom continue to pervade financial markets, creating the eerie darkness that is home to fearsome bears and other creatures prone to habitual short selling. But a look at the last year’s graph for most major indexes reveals a pattern that looks like a jack ‘o lantern’s jagged grin. Every G-force [...]Posted in Equities,Top Stories,Trading | Read More »
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You Say Recession, I Say Depression
As the debate continues over prospects for economic growth in the U.S., much of the jousting comes down to a debate over whether good times will come this year or in the next year or two. Some near-term optimism comes from Wall Street Cheat Sheet’s “4 Huge Catalysts That
Could Awaken Animal Spirits on Wall [...]
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World’s Wealthy in Hibernation Mode?
Recent signs are pointing in the direction of the affluent population becoming more bearish. The Spectrem Group of Chicago has compiled intelligence suggesting that the market confidence of the global wealthy demographic has declined by the greatest amount since June 2009. These details and statistics are packaged in Spectrum’s Affluent Investor Confidence Index, which reveals [...]
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As this chart from Think Big shows, the S&P 500 seems to be on the low end of its roller coaster course. Time to buy? Who knows, but as Ticker Sense points out with another graph, the S&P 500′s trailing earnings are plotting a similar course. “Analysts are forecasting earnings grow of 33.6% and 17.9% [...]
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Prechter: The Sky is Falling (Again…)
Experienced market hands will instantly recognize Robert Prechter. For two decades, Bob has made a very nice living over the years using Elliott Wave Theory to periodically predict the end of the world as we know it. As profiled by Peter Brimelow over at MarketWatch, Bob’s latest glimpse into the fog has the Dow at [...]
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