... be confessing that 2009 was worse. Our reward for being awful in 2008 was a market that closed down some 37%. I suppose a drop like this is logical – we entered the year with such high expectations.
Well ...
Thursday, October 08, 2009
2.
A Twisted Excuse
(Matching tags: Technical Analysis,WaveStrength Options Weekly,Editor Adam Lass,Market Analysis,Recession)
When the market rally comes to an end, Washington and Wall Street will convince the herd why it ended – no matter how twisted or strange.
One of the more peculiar pastimes for technical analysts ...
Thursday, October 01, 2009
... go higher.
Grantham’s “career risk” factor feeds a sort of built-in market inertia, as the large mutual funds try hard to imitate each other rather than risk being out of step. To ...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Market s have a sordid history of soaring like Icarus – just before plummeting back to earth. Justice recalls an old experience from the dot-com bubble and wonders if we are seeing “capitulation déjà ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
... Clears 1,000 - Can DJIA Reach 10,000?; ADM, KFT, CVS and DUK Earnings Could Help
Business in brief: S&P 500 Index Hits Four Digits
U.S. Market s Wrap: Dow Industrials Rise, Bonds Fall on Housing ...
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange’s TA-100 index finished up for the seventh day in a row today, closing 1.84% higher.
That makes Israel’s stock market more than 6% higher than last Tuesday.
Market Watch ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
The Jakarta Stock Exchange in Indonesia has been one of the best-performing market s this year, more than doubling from 1,089 to 2,322.
Last night a suicide bomber in Jakarta tried to derail this ...
Friday, July 17, 2009
... about an area of the market that WILL BE experiencing astronomical growth this year. Despite the uncertainty in nearly every corner of the market , this industry is primed for growth. How can I be so ...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
...
It might surprise you, but making a fortune in the foreign currency (Forex) market is easier than you think. In fact, our revolutionary “Forex Edge” could turn you into a Forex millionaire in the next ...
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Economics explains “why,” but T/A (technical analysis ) tells you “where and when” – and how to cash in.
Why is the market so damned flat?
It sounds like a complaint – the whine of a trader desperately ...
Thursday, June 18, 2009
... are finding it easier to buy out the weaker companies.”
Scheidt calls it “corporate pirating” on Wall Street. “These healthier competitors are strengthening their market share ...
Friday, June 05, 2009
... not totally out of the woods yet.”
In essence, the small increase in the index means that fewer firms reported worsening conditions in May than in April, says Market Watch’s Rex Nutting.
“Six of 18 ...
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
... in charge.
Asian Market s Sell Off
As you can tell by the five-day chart of the South Korean Kopsi index, the stock market sold off, but came back at the end.
South Korea is up 25% over the past ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
14.
Emerging Market ETFs
(Matching tags: Exchange-Traded Fund,Market Analysis,Money Morning,Mike Caggeso)
... called a new play.
During the first quarter, Harvard engineered a dramatic shift in its endowment-fund investment strategy - boosting its stakes in some of the most prominent emerging market exchange ...
Thursday, May 21, 2009
After ending the week on Friday in the red, U.S. stock market s rallied Monday on “signs of life in the housing market .”
“The rally hit a wall last week after weaker-than-expected reports on retail sales, ...
Monday, May 18, 2009
... Great Depression ended, small cap stocks beat the market for 11 of the following 13 years, CNNMoney reported.
More recently, however, the Russell 2000 Index (the most common benchmark of publicly traded ...
Monday, May 18, 2009
... 500. (Something not far from the realm of possibility I might add, given recent market action.) The conventional thing to do, being aware of the existence of leveraged ETFs and not wanting to mess with ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
... but some of those who do have learned the secret to pocketing immense gains - as high as 7,100% - on the most deadbeat stocks in the market . Even better, this secret can be used to earn gains like this ...
Monday, May 11, 2009
... beat Wall Street to the profits. Filled with investment analysis and insight from every sector (from blue chips to small caps... options to ETFs... emerging market s to the tech sector), Taipan Daily delivers ...
Thursday, May 07, 2009
As the market s would tell it, the swine flu epidemic is little more than a tempest in a teacup. But, sad to say, the danger here remains far greater than it seems...
Before we begin, a word in honor ...
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Good economic news has helped push the U.S. stock market higher today.
First, U.S. construction spending rose for the first time in six months, which has helped push basic-materials stocks up as much ...
Monday, May 04, 2009
The human brain is an amazing machine, but not without its flaws. Getting in the habit of “gorilla spotting” can help save you money in market s – and perhaps make you a lot of money too. Editor Justice ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
981% gains. That’s how much you could make by understanding the critical differences between Detroit’s Big Three Automakers
Fair warning: I am going write about cars and carmakers again, and I am going ...
Monday, April 27, 2009
... run and hide until then. Indeed, now is the time to begin looking to build your bridges to the new bull market . A careful mix of short-term puts and long-term calls is your best bet at the moment.
Long-term ...
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Sad to say, America is acting more like an immature emerging market than a mature financial power in its handling of the credit crisis... and in result, the rally in financials looks dubious at best. ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
... cycle plays itself out. Here are a few reasons as to why.
Bullish Gold Stocks Reason #1: Excess Volatility.
In normal market conditions, a sudden upswing in volatility can be a powerful sign... ...
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
... any sense of market timing. Unemployment woes and rising food costs have forced hard-up Asian families to dip into their emergency stashes. Traders have further noted that these scrap sales seem sensitive ...
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
What comes first, employment recovery or market recovery? The answer may shock you!
“Fastest Job Loss Ever!!!!”
Wow, what an ugly headline.
There we were, merrily rolling along last week, happy ...
Monday, April 06, 2009
... to bed, I really do. There are so many other interesting (and important) new developments to cover, my inbox feels near to bursting with critical market research.
The trouble is, the story is just ...
Friday, April 03, 2009
30.
"Are We There Yet?"
(Matching tags: Market Analysis,Editor Adam Lass,WaveStrength Options Weekly)
... stores into market s left vacant by the bankruptcy of rival Circuit City.
The cost of these stores’ shelves, signs and product? That cost will be amortized away to the back pages of some future statement. ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
31.
Everybody Lies
(Matching tags: Market Analysis,Editor Adam Lass,WaveStrength Options Weekly,Government Issues)
... and long-term calls on major market players such as Ford (F:NYSE) and General Electric (GE: NYSE).
The puts will allow you to survive the herd’s inevitable disappointment on each episode of false spring. ...
Thursday, March 26, 2009
...
Here’s my quick take: Clearly the market liked the plan, based on Monday’s action – or maybe the market just liked ANY semblance of a plan – and just as clearly a number of commentators did not. Paul ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
33.
The Perpetual Motion Scam
(Matching tags: U.S. Dollar,Inflation Rate,Market Analysis,Editor Adam Lass,WaveStrength Options Weekly,Government Issues)
... “explaining” what just happened, and most folks are more confused than ever. Cross-eyed. Hornswoggled!
The evidence? As I sit to write, the market s are actually lower than before Bernanke leaned out ...
Monday, March 23, 2009
The rally on U.S. market s was extended today when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that America’s recession “probably will end this year” if the banking system has been bolstered enough.
In ...
Monday, March 16, 2009
Want to double your money in the stock market ? Ignore the lemmings!
Happy days are here again! The veritable poster child for screwed-up banks, Citigroup (C: NYSE), is profitable!
This wonder of ...
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Could there be any possible upside to global recession and market declines to rival the Great Depression? Believe it or not, the answer is yes... General Electric gives answer as to why.
Though it ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
... of those costs are down.
Wall Street Forced To Issue New "Crisis Bonds" At Fractions Of Their Value! Thanks to the ongoing market crisis, you now have the opportunity to purchase possibly the safest ...
Monday, February 09, 2009
The oldest, most trusted technician in the world is telling you to sell now.
Recession? Depression? Nascent recovery? Market bottom? Dead cat bounce?
Lock a Washington economist, a Wall Street analyst ...
Thursday, February 05, 2009
How to Profit From Bonds
Urgent Market Alert: Wall Street Pushed to the Brink: New “Crisis Bonds” Auctioned at Fraction of Full Value
A Taipan Publishing Group Investment Research Report
By Justice ...
Friday, January 30, 2009
History teaches us that market s move in cycles. The "Market Quadrant" is a simple way to better understand (and profit from) that fact.
Risk appetite is the mother’s milk of capitalism. – Paul McCulley, ...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
... gave a talk on “big picture thinking.” One of the central themes of the talk was learning to think in terms of movie plots.
That is to say: if it were in fact a movie plot, how might a particular market ...
Friday, January 16, 2009
... want to know: “When can I go long?”
An example: late last week, the bean counters in Washington announced that a whole bunch of folks lost their jobs in December. As a “result,” the market s put in a ...
Monday, January 12, 2009
... stun devices used by law enforcement, military and security agents the world over. The stock was once selling as high as $19 a share.
But with market conditions as they are right now, the stock has fallen ...
Saturday, January 03, 2009
... bit of sarcasm (in case you hadn’t noticed).
If I felt like really pushing my luck though – being out of pocket for Tuesday’s market action and all – I could point out that the upmove from 750 to just ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
... current interest rates, and the risks present in the market . When investors throw caution to the wind, and are willing to buy at any price, it drives stocks too high. An objective way of measuring this ...
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
... Preys on Falling Stocks for 170 Winning Trades!
While most people are being decimated by the ongoing market collapse, a small group of smart folks are turning the market plunge into big gains of 224%... ...
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Justice Litle suggests great traders do the same thing in market s that “The Great One” did in the hockey rink…use brains, not brawn to anticipate where the puck (or rather the market ) is going to be. ...
Friday, November 14, 2008
... snuck in a 400-point reversal... in the last fifteen minutes of trading!)
Market wackiness aside, though, I think we could be close to a tradable bottom here. That is to say, a time to start scouting ...
Friday, October 31, 2008
Justice Litle recaps three market -related insights he came across while reading Tom Vanderbilt’s book “Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us).”
As I look around and try to get ...
Friday, October 10, 2008
... to see, there are more than a few parallels here.
You need the right equipment.
To make your way up a frozen waterfall thousands of feet high, you need the right tools -- just as you do in market s. ...
Monday, August 25, 2008
