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When The Computer Herds Hit The Exits
“In a 2010 study of the 2010 Flash Crash, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission found that high frequency traders substantially increased volatility during the event and accelerated the crash…The Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the stock regulator in Australia, found in a 2012 study that during volatile markets high frequency traders reduce […]
The Three Largest Cryptocurrencies – Wednesday, Nov. 21
With so much focus on bitcoin lately, we’ve added a new weekly update that tracks the three largest cryptocurrencies by market share: bitcoin, Ether, and Ripple. According to Wikipedia, a cryptocurrency is “a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses cryptography to secure its transactions, to control the creation of additional […]
Should You Buy The S&P 500 Dip Or Sell The S&P 500 Rips?
Until recently, the U.S. stock market had been taking Federal Reserve rate hikes and quantitative tightening (QT) in stride. The investment community had come to believe that corporate tax reform would compensate for the gradual removal of ultra-easy interest rate stimulus. Indeed, up through October, rising interest rates had been hurting bonds far more stocks. […]
Russell 2000 Digs In Again – Fresh ‘Buy’
It could have been better but bulls should be happy with the work done in the Russell 2000. Yesterday’s close pushed the index into the 10% zone of historic weak action (reached in October 2018) while also confirming a double bottom on a two-bar reversal. It’s a second ‘buy’ signal after last Thursday’s failed. The […]
Existing Home Sales Rise First Time In Seven Months
Existing home sales rose 1.7%, the first increase since March. Year-over-year sales are down 5.1%. Mortgage News Daily reports Existing Home Sales Break Free From Losing Streak, Posting October Gains. Existing home sales broke their extended losing streak in October, increasing 1.4 percent from September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.22 million completed sales. […]
Nervous Investors Pile Into Low Volatility, Defensive ETFs
Lately, the U.S. stock market has been caught in a vicious circle of trading as higher interest rates, collapse in oil prices, concerns over trade war and its resultant threats on the global economy unnerved investors. Additionally, the strong profit growth era seems to be coming to an end with most analysts expecting an earnings […]
Global Debt Increase 2018 Vs. Gold Investment: Must See Charts
Global debt increased at the fastest rate at the beginning of 2018. In just one quarter, total global debt jumped by more than $8 trillion. That is quite surprising as total world debt rose by $22 trillion for the full year in 2017. Thus, the increase in global debt last year averaged $5.5 trillion each […]
ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update: WLIg Sees Sixth Negative Week
This morning’s release of the publicly available data from ECRI puts its Weekly Leading Index (WLI) at 144.9, down from the previous week’s 145.5. Year-over-year the four-week moving average of the indicator is now at -0.33%, down from last week. The WLI Growth indicator is now at -3.74, also down from the previous week. “Construction […]
Have Fed Expectations Shifted To An Extreme?
(Audio length 00:12:06) Chris Temple and I address the overwhelming shift in exceptions that at the next FOMC meeting in December the Fed will switch course. Most people still think the Fed will hike rates however expectations into next year have almost completely reversed. This could all be overdone as market corrections are healthy and […]
