Market Performance Following Memorial Day & S&P 1500 Most Volatile Stocks by Bespoke Memorial Day is next Monday, giving the country a chance to honor those who serverd our country. Memorial Day also marks the unofficial beginning to summer, and for those interested, below is a look at how the S&P 500 (SPX) (SPY) has historically performed during the shortened...
Gold ETF (GLD) Holdings Lowest Since 2008, Amid Declining Volatility & Hedge Fund Negativity Gold Holdings in World’s Top ETF Reach Lowest Since 2008 by Debarati Roy , Bloomberg Investors are shunning gold again, sending holdings in the world’s largest exchange-traded product backed by bullion to the lowest since December 2008. Assets in the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), which counts billionaire...
What It Would Take To Get Real Volatility (& The VIX) Rising Again Only a ‘black swan’ will bring back stock volatility Quick stock pullbacks have limited volatility to ‘spikes’ by Wallace Witkowski Investors are becoming more accustomed to holding firm during market drops, making it more likely that it will take a true “black swan” event to usher in...
Yield Curve Indicator Shows No Sign Of Bear Market Bear market won’t come until the yield curve says so: Kleintop by Ben Eisen Jittery investors who are looking to the indexes for signs of an approaching bear market might do better by focusing their attention elsewhere: on the yield curve. So says Jeffrey Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial,...
Gold Big Picture Technical Analysis Outlook Gold Prediction using Statistics & Technical Analysis by Chris Vermeulen Here is my Gold (GLD) prediction (Silver (SLV) and Gold Mining stocks (GDX) should be the same) looking forward 24 months. Since the top in gold in 2011, gold has selling off. Depending on how you analyze the market, this 3 year sell off could be...
4 Lessons From The South Sea Bubble Four ways to spot an investing bubble A study of one of history’s first bubbles offers some valuable lessons by Brett Arends Some people will tell you the financial markets are efficient, prices are always “correct,” and the crowd is “wise.” Others will tell you the market is madness, prices are frequently ridiculous,...
4 Mental Factors That Can Hinder Your Trading The 4 Most Dangerous Emotions For Traders by Deron Wagner The Psychology Of Trading Mastering the psychology of trading is one of the most difficult, yet underappreciated, elements of learning how to trade stocks, regardless of whether one is trading part-time from home or trading professionally for a living. While there are...
Continued Divergences Worry & Confound Traders A warning sign? Market divergence worries traders by Patti Domm The volatile selling in Nasdaq and small cap names is making some traders nervous, and technicians say it’s a time for caution while the once sizzling names continue to burn. The Nasdaq (COMP) (QQQ) fell like a rock Wednesday but recovered toward the close...
Contrarian Alert: Over Past 2 Months, Lowest Rated Stocks Crushing Highest Rated Ones Not a Good Year for Wall Street Analysts Either by BespokeInvest 2014 has so far been an extremely difficult year for stock market investors. As noted by Goldman Sachs yesterday, “nearly 90% of large cap growth mutual funds and 90% of value funds were underperforming their benchmarks year-to-date.”...
Commodities, Oil, & Gold Technical Analysis Forecast Commodities Moving Down into the Midyear Correction By Toby Connor So far my 2014 expectations are playing out pretty much as planned, with a few adjustments. With the threat of war in the Ukraine I think the final bubble phase in stocks is now off the table. I doubt we can get the...
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