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10 Most And Least Shorted Industries And What To Expect
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 - Aug 30, 2012

Here is a list of the most and least shorted industries. To create these rankings, Contextuall aggregated days to cover ratio data for more than 4200 stocks. (Note: Days to Cover = Total Shares ...

 
The Best And Worst Performing Industries Over And Under The SMA 50
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 - Aug 30, 2012

Here is a summary list of industries that are showing strong up- and downward momentum during recent sessions, based on an analysis of 50-day simple moving average trends (SMA50).There are two ways to...

 
The Market's Best And Worst Performing Industries In Recent Times
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 - Aug 30, 2012

Contextuall analyzed momentum trends for more than 4200 companies, and filtered these data points to arrive at an overall industry view of moving average trends. The following list of industries are ...

 
This Week’s Best Stocks In The Technology Sector
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 - Aug 30, 2012

If you’re looking for stocks that are outperforming their competitors, the following list might be a good starting point for your research. Here is a list of the top performing Technology ...

 
This Past Week’s Losers In The Tech Sector
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 - Aug 30, 2012

Below we’ve listed the worst performing Tech stocks over the last week, ranked by their alpha relative to industry averages. The list has been sorted by each stock’s alpha vs. their ...

 
Stocks Finish Lower, Bernanke Speculation Keeps Most On Sidelines
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 - Aug 30, 2012

After-Hours: Closing Update: Stocks Finish Lower as European Worries, Bernanke Speculation Keeps Most on Sidelines4:09 PM, Aug 30, 2012 -- Stocks added to losses Thursday, with the S&P 500 sliding...

 
Near-Term Market Momentum Remains To The Upside
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 - Aug 30, 2012

Another day, and another batch of algorithms added to the Contextuall system. Our analysts upgraded our S&P500 signals, building 40 different algorithms to predict the direction of the stock ...

 
September E-Mini S&P: Pattern Fetching Enough To Be Bottom-Fished
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 - Aug 30, 2012

It’s early Thursday morning and the futures were playing toe-sies with the 1401.25 midpoint support of the pattern shown. Its "D" sibling at 1386.25 will be in play as a minimum downside ...

 
Float Shrink Outperforms Dividends  
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 - Aug 30, 2012

So far this year investors have poured billions into high dividend strategy ETFs. Yet almost all the big dividend ETFs have underperformed the market, even after including reinvested dividends. On the...

 
VIX And VXV Show SPX Term Structure At Historic Highs
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 - Aug 30, 2012

In addition to the well-known VIX index, the CBOE also publishes the VXV index. It’s computed just like VIX, except that it gauges the implied volatility of SPX options 3 months out, rather than...

 
4 Shoe Stocks With Legs
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 - Aug 30, 2012

Buy more shoes. It does not matter what kind. High heels, sneakers, flipflops, the shoe space is on fire. Take a look at these 4 shoe stocks:Crocs (CROX)Crocs is building a bull flag with a top at 18....

 
Cautionary Indicator: US Transports Show Negative Divergence To S&P 500
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 - Aug 30, 2012

Rail, trucking and package delivery are among key indicators of business activity in the United States. The recent relative performance of transportation stocks and the S&P 500 suggests that ...

 
Market Tap Dances Between Breakout And Breakdown
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 - Aug 30, 2012

T2108 Status: 67.7% VIX Status: 17.1 General (Short-term) Trading Call: Hold.Commentary Last week, the Pavlovian market jumped at another mention of old QE3 news. This week, the Pavlovian market ...

 
Visualizing GDP: Eye On The Consumer
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 - Aug 30, 2012

Note from dshort: The charts in this commentary have been updated to include the Q2 2012 Second Estimate.The chart below is my way to visualize real GDP change since 2007. I've used a stacked column ...

 
GDP Q2 Second Estimate At 1.7%, Better Than The 1.5% Advance Estimate
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 - Aug 30, 2012

The Second Estimate for Q2 GDP came in at 1.7%, an upward adjustment from the 1.5% Advance Estimate and slightly topping the Briefing.com consensus forecast of 1.6%. Here is an excerpt from the ...

 
Stocks End Higher As Fed Sees "Gradual" Expansion in U.S. Economy
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 - Aug 30, 2012

U.S. stock indexes closed a range-bound session slightly higher, edging up after the release of the Federal Reserve's latest Beige Book. In the Beige Book, the Federal Reserve commented that the U.S. ...

 
VIX Stalls At 50 DMA, ETNs Suffer
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 - Aug 29, 2012

After bouncing off five-year lows, VIX stalls at its 50-day moving average.VIX, the CBOE S&P 500 Volatility Index, also known as the “fear index,” recently hit five-year lows, bounced ...

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 NQ 100 Futures2,967.70+2.95+0.10%  
 US 3015,179.85+109.67+0.73%  
 DAX8,215.73+87.77+1.08%  
 FTSE 1006,330.49+22.23+0.35%  
 Japan 22513,033.50+0.38+0.00%  
 US Dollar Index80.88+0.06+0.08%  
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 Gold1,382.25-0.85-0.06%  
 Silver21.822+0.064+0.29%  
 Copper3.192-0.002-0.05%  
 Crude Oil98.10+0.07+0.07%  
 Natural Gas3.887-0.009-0.24%  
 US Cotton No.287.92-0.57-0.65%  
 US Coffee C123.23-0.57-0.46%  
 
 EUR/USD1.3356-0.0010-0.08%  
 GBP/USD1.5703-0.0018-0.11%  
 USD/JPY94.89+0.39+0.41%  
 USD/CHF0.9230+0.0003+0.04%  
 AUD/USD0.9518-0.0024-0.25%  
 USD/CAD1.0184-0.0003-0.02%  
 EUR/GBP0.8505+0.0001+0.01%  
CFDs Quotes
 Euro Bund143.64-0.09-0.06%  
 Euro BTP112.17+0.20+0.17%  
 Euro BOBL126.156-0.030-0.02%  
 UK Gilt115.25-0.26-0.23%  
 US 2 YR T-Note110.170.000.00%  
 US 10 YR T-Note129.20-0.03-0.02%  
 US 30 YR T-Bond139.43+0.04+0.03%  
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