Category Archive: Finance
Dow Base Breakout
Star of Friday was the Dow Jones Industrial Average as it cleared congestion dating back to March, although there is still the ‘bull trap’ from February to clear. Volume climbed to register as accumulation, and it came with a MACD trigger ‘buy’ and On-Balance-Volume ‘buy’ trigger. The S&P came close to an all-time breakout, but […]
Markets In-Review – Markets Rebound As Macro Concerns Dissolve
Conservatives securing a surprising majority in the U.K. parliament helped push markets higher, towards the end of last week’s session. Unsurprisingly, signs of relief were mostly evident in the U.K. – yields in the U.K. lost about 8bp, as they hovered around 1.85% at the start of Friday’s session, while the German 10 year bund […]
China Cuts Rates (Again) In Desperate Bid To Buy Stocks, Rescue Economy
For the third time since November, China has cut its benchmark lending rate. Hours ago, the PBoC slashed the 1-year lending rate by 25bps to 5.1% and the 1-year deposit rate to 2.25%. The move comes just three weeks after Beijing cut the reserve requirement ratio for the second time this year and marks a […]
E Is Amazon The Canary In The Market’s Coal Mine?
Here we go again? In November 1999, I titled our newsletter “The Amazon Flows Between a Rock and a Hard Spot.” Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) had just hit a high of $96.88 (split-adjusted.) Wall Street analysts all raced to the same side of the lifeboat fawning over the brilliance of Jeff Bezos and the unstoppable AMZN, which […]
S&P 500: A Pause That Refreshes, Or Is The Top In?
The current rally has reached extremes: more than three years above the neutral line of MACD and almost 500 points above the 200-week moving average. U.S stocks have been treading water for a while, and this raises a question: is this just another pause that refreshes a market on its way to new highs, or […]
Sentiment From Twitter For S&P 500 Index Oversold
I’ve posted warnings of a short term top for the S&P 500 Index (SPX) over the past couple of weeks and since that time the market has been choppy. I’m now seeing evidence of sentiment from the Twitter stream that indicates SPX is due for a move higher. The evidence suggests that SPX should break out of […]
How To Invest In Emerging Technologies Of The Future With ETFs
It is hard to deny that the world is driven by technology. And while computers, cell phones, and the internet have become common place, there are plenty of other sectors that are just on the cusp of breaking out and becoming extremely important industries. And while we have all heard of the niche industries outlined […]
Value Trapped: Ten Clean Energy Stocks For 2015, April Update
My Ten Clean Energy Stocks for 2015 model portfolio held on to first quarter gains in April, despite a 29% fall for one of the stocks. (For details on that decline, see the Power REIT (NYSE:PW) section below.) The portfolio as a whole was rescued by the recovering Canadian Dollar and Euro, as well as mild […]
HH Gold Is Nearing An Important Pivot Point In 7 Charts
In this article, we show gold’s developing story in 7 amazing charts. As usual, we look at gold from different angles. If anything, it becomes clear that the precious metals market is nearing a pivot point. We cannot be sure in which direction this will resolve, we can only keep on monitoring the developments […]
Crowdfunding – The Future Of Investing
Ever since the advent of the internet, people have been looking for all sorts of opportunities to make money from it, and “crowdfunding” is probably the most mature and sophisticated culmination of these efforts so far. Crowdfunding is a way for people (or businesses) who need money for projects to raise that cash from people […]
