Can Fed avoid a repeat of May 2010 woes?
The end of June looms prominently ahead for investors who wonder what will happen to the markets when the Federal Reserve Bank terminates its latest round of quantitative easing, affectionately or not-so-affectionately known as QE2.
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Gil Morales and Chris Kacher talk about how to time the markets. They also take stock picks and provide real time analysis of listeners requests.
With today's employment report showing employment back up to 9.1%, there is growing discussion about the possibility of a double-dip recession.
The wrong-headed socialist policies of the Obama administration will come home to roost. Read the full article here.
As legendary investor Jesse Livermore once wrote, more money has been lost by those who take stock tips.
There is a difference between taking a stock tip that has no inherent or proven logic behind the tip compared to acting on stock suggestions based on stock market trading strategies that have proven themselves over many market cycles. Read the full article here.
The Punchbowl of Death (POD) is an interesting short-sale set-up or formation that I first observed in the 1990's when I was first able to study the charts of big, winning stocks from earlier, historical market periods. Read the full article here.
Since the market low on March 9, 2009, which also roughly coincided with the start of quantitative easing (QE), the NASDAQ Composite has had four corrections that exceed -8%...
Instead, the market found its footing when all looked ugly, and the QE-motivated bull market resumed. Read the full article here.
Chris kacher discusses Xerox (XRX), Baidu (BIDU) and Netflix (NFLX).
At today's press conference, Bernanke said he thought inflation would subside as energy prices and other commodity prices moderate.
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2011 has, so far, been a mostly trendless environment. Even the market wizards who are tracked as 'trend followers' are down this year...
Fortunately, such difficult periods to come to an end, and new trends do begin. It the meantime, it's wise to keep an eye on the markets, and keep taking shots, though with perhaps smaller positions, until the market proves itself.
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Given all the possible permutations of the continuing debt dilemmas in both the United States and Europe, finding a way to profit from the potential effect they’ll have on the markets is a complex challenge. Indeed, the current global landscape is fraught with so many cross-currents that calculating potential causalities is becoming less of a science and much more of an art.
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Gil Morales talks about gold and explains how massive liquidity is driving stocks higher and higher.
US, Europe will likely continue to inflate their way out of debt crises, printing money and debasing their currencies, so keep an eye on precious metals - but don't buy just yet. Read the full article here.
Chris Kacher says that since June 2010, the general markets have yet to correct -10% even with QE2 over. Further, the negative news out of Portugal was not enough to take the market down. It is a sign of inherent strength in the general market when bad news does not derail the general market. With QE2 over, treasuries dropped & money went into the stock market, thus we’ve seen this straight up from the bottom action in the general markets. The bounce off recent lows could also be market forces taking into account quantitative easing in Europe, or Euro-QE. It could also be an indication of US QE3 to come. In the meantime, the market trades in a relatively trendless manner that characterizes 2011 so far.
