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Stocks Have Likely Entered Cyclical Bear Market
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 - Jun 04, 2012

In March, our analysis indicated that the risk/reward profile of the stock market had entered the worst one percentile of all historical observations based on 80 years of data. We predicted that the ...

 
Stock Market Reconfirms Bearish Translation
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 - Jun 04, 2012

The S&P 500 index plunged nearly 2.5 percent Friday, moving down to a new low for the downtrend from April and breaking slightly below long-term support at the 200-day moving average.With respect ...

 
Stocks Trading Above 200DMA Completes Roundtrip For 2012
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 - Jun 04, 2012

This post is a supplement to my extensive T2108 Update for June 1, 2012. T2108 is the percentage of stocks trading above their 40-day moving average. I use it to determine oversold and overbought ...

 
Oversold Again; What To Expect Going Forward
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 - Jun 04, 2012

T2108 Status: 18.6% (Day #1 of oversold period) VIX Status: 26.7 General (Short-term) Trading Call: Cover some shorts, start building bullish tradingCommentary As I feared, the bounce from oversold ...

 
Bears Now Have The Upper Hand
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 - Jun 04, 2012

Friday's session changed very important elements in wave counts for S&P. Breaking the low of 1291 canceled the possibility of being in a 3 wave decline from 1422. It also overlapped potential wave...

 
The European Levels You Must Know
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 - Jun 04, 2012

As we all know by now, the problems in the European Union are starting to increase by the moment. Many investors are now talking about a complete breakup of the European Union as we know it. The debt ...

 
Global Financial System At The Crossroads
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 - Jun 04, 2012

After a bruising week, the global financial system now stands at a crossroads.Global stock markets were hammered last week and for May as negative fundamental factors and ugly technical indicators ...

 
Equities At Risk, Gold Rallies, As Economic Growth Slows
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 - Jun 04, 2012

Equities were dealt a crushing blow on Friday with the major indices all giving up between two and three full percentage points.   All of the bearish wedge patterns featured in last weeks article...

 
Facebook IPO: Once Again, Wall Street Wins
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 - Jun 04, 2012

We warned of a social network tech bubble 2.0 over a year ago due to the hype and overvaluation of Facebook (FB) based on the reported deals by Goldman Sachs and a Russian investment ...

 
E Mini S&P: 3% Loss On The Week
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 - Jun 03, 2012

Stock futures posted their biggest one day loss, with the Dow plunging into negative territory for the year, after a disappointing jobs report that missed expectations badly. Weak economic data out of...

 
Stocks Tank, In Line With Forecast; Euro Daily Candle Warning To Bears
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 - Jun 03, 2012

The weakness in stocks continued to a new low as forecast in last post. There are several different ways to count the decline, most of them are impulsive suggesting the larger trend is firmly down ...

 
Elliott Wave Analysis For S&P 500: Important Crossroads Reached
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 - Jun 03, 2012

Elliott Wave Analysis of the S&P-500 (SPX) by Sid from ElliottWavePredictions.com. Click on the chart twice to enlarge.The SPX index is at a very important crossroads. Typically, after an extended...

 
S&P 500: Broken Record Repeats Itself
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 - Jun 03, 2012

Traditional music records have been replaced with CDs (compact discs) and digital downloads. Although the problem of a broken record repeating itself is no longer an issue, our financial markets have ...

 
Facebook: It's Official, The Worst-Performing IPO In The Past
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 - Jun 03, 2012
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As if the pre-IPO build up wasn’t enough, Facebook (FB) continues to dominate the financial headlines. However it’s not good news. In fact, it’s hard to find many analysts out there ...

 
Smiths Group, QuickView: Strong Product Development Pipeline Adds Value
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 - Jun 03, 2012

Investment summary for Smiths Group (SMIN.L): Detecting progressSmiths Group recently held an investor day to discuss and demonstrate the market opportunities, product development and operational ...

 
Diverse Income Trust: UK Fund Had A Successful First Year
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 - Jun 03, 2012

Investment summary for The Diverse Income Trust (DIVI.L): Low volatility incomeThe Diverse Income Trust (DIVI), launched in April 2011, has had a successful first year against the back-drop of ...

 
Brewin Dolphin Holdings: Near-Term Downpours, Longer Term Upside
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 - Jun 03, 2012

Investment summary for Brewin Dolphin Holdings (BRW.L): Sowing seeds in 2012Given Brewin Dolphin’s (BD) success at the Chelsea Flower Show, a gardening analogy is appropriate for its interim ...

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