Posts Tagged ‘Traders Narrative’

Momentum Wanes As Market Loses Afterburners

{ Posted on Feb 09 2010 by Babak }
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We are in the midst of a correction but more importantly, major markets have broken their uptrend line from the bear market lows. But that doesn’t mean that the bulls have totally lost control. Instead, I think the momentum thrust ...Read More »

Major Trend Break For Global Markets

{ Posted on Feb 09 2010 by Babak }
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Back in May 2009 we looked at the major global stock market indexes which showed a change in tone from the deeply negative bear market to a surprisingly robust but young bull market. That analysis should have helped when most ...Read More »

Energy Sector At Support: Opportunity For Longs

{ Posted on Feb 08 2010 by Babak }
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I bet that many are looking at that very tempting hammer candlestick pattern which printed last Friday and thinking that it is a bullish omen. Well, not always. But I do think this pullback presents an opportunity for the long ...Read More »

Weekend Reading: We’re All Greek Now

{ Posted on Feb 07 2010 by Babak }
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Opa! Pass the keftedes and try to not get any tzatziki sauce on those Greek sovereign CDS’s. We are all Greek now. The risk of sovereign debt and deficits is coming home to roost in Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Greece. ...Read More »

Sentiment Overview: Week Of February 5th, 2010

{ Posted on Feb 05 2010 by Babak }
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We’ve had some interesting developments in sentiment this week: Sentiment Surveys The American Association of Individual Investors survey results for this Thursday February 4th show only 29.2% in the bullish camp and an growing bearish camp (43.1%). Fear increased by approximately the ...Read More »

Market Rout Leads To Collapse Of New 52 Week Highs

{ Posted on Feb 04 2010 by Babak }
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The bears roared back pushing all major indices lower after two back to back positive days on Monday and Tuesday. While feeble and late, the bounce earlier in the week pushed up the percentage of S&P 500 components trading above ...Read More »

Will NASDAQ’s Weakness Affect General Market?

{ Posted on Feb 03 2010 by Babak }
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I know I tend to compare the current market cycle to the 2003 cyclical bull rally but you have to admit, there are a lot of similarities. It was just earlier this week when I showed the similarity between the ...Read More »

Citi: No Big Meltdown, Just a “Cleansing” Correction

{ Posted on Feb 03 2010 by Babak }
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A recent research report from CitiFX Technicals argues that this is a healthy correction for the equity markets and not the start of a “big meltdown”. Citi foresees a possible move all the way to the 200 day moving average ...Read More »

An Overview Of The Daily Sentiment Index Indicator

{ Posted on Feb 03 2010 by Babak }
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Jake Bernstein’s Daily Sentiment Index (DSI) is a proprietary sentiment indicator which we’ve looked at before a few times for different markets. It is not a commonly used index since what goes into its composition is not known and unlike ...Read More »

The Bubble In Fixed Income

{ Posted on Feb 02 2010 by Babak }
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We have a rare Michael Belkin sighting! You’re forgiven if you have no idea who that is. Belkin is an independent market analyst and the author of his eponymous weekly report targeted to institutional investors (or anyone with a large ...Read More »
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