Friday, April 04, 2013 Stock Market Commentary: The current rally is under pressure as distribution (institutional selling) spiked higher in the first week of the second quarter. The elevated distribution sent a slew of leading stocks and market indexes below their respective 50 DMA lines. Defense is paramount until the market can make its next move. So far,…
This Week’s Trading Lesson I believe that making money in the market requires doing what is hard. Often, when your emotions are telling you to take one course of action, you have to go the other way. Here are 10 hard, but necessary, things to do if you want to beat the stock market. 1….
04/01/13 8:24am EDT By Ryan Vlastelica NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stock index futures were flat on Monday after the S&P 500 index set a record closing high on Friday and investors waited for a report on U.S. manufacturing, a major component of economic growth. This is a busy week for economic data. In addition to the…
April 1, 2013, 8:10 a.m. EDT ISM manufacturing data are expected to show improvement By Barbara Kollmeyer, MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — With two U.S. stock indexes sitting at record highs, investors on Monday awaited data expected to show further improvement in manufacturing and a rise in construction spending. Futures for the Dow industrials (CBE:DJM3) reversed early declines…
Friday, March 28, 2013 Stock Market Commentary: Stocks ended higher last week as Cyprus woes eased and stocks enjoyed their largest first quarter gain in years. So far the action in the major averages remains very strong as the number of distribution days (i.e. institutional selling) remains limited and the last pullback was shallow in size and…
March 25, 2013, 2:05 PM Well, it looks like it might be bye-bye record-day for the S&P 500 again. Ever since the Dow broke its Oct. 2007 closing high earlier in the month, the S&P 500 SPX -0.39% has been torturing investors by dangling the prospect of breaking its all-time highs (closing: 1565.15 hit on October 9, 2007;…
Friday, March 22, 2013 Stock Market Commentary: Stocks ended slightly lower last week as Cyprus woes briefly hurt the riskon trade. So far the action in the major averages remains very strong as the number of distribution days remains limited and the last pullback was shallow in size and scope. The S&P 500 pulled back 2.9% after…
Know What People Do, Not What they Say They Are Doing Source: Stockscores.com Perspectives for the week ending March 20, 2013 This week’s Trading Lesson Investors have many choices on how to analyze the stock market. Most use some form of fundamental analysis, looking at company information to determine whether the stock’s price is more…
Tue Mar 19, 2013 4:57pm EDT * Broader funds see $1.1 bln Feb inflow, new upside in March * SPDR gold sees $3.8 bln outflow in Feb, more lost in March * PIMCO, Fidelity commods funds have most inflows By Barani Krishnan March 19 (Reuters) – Commodity exchange-traded fund investors have put money into funds…
By Angela Moon NEW YORK | Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:31am EDT (Reuters) – Stock index futures rose on Wednesday as the focus shifted from concerns about Cyprus’s financial health to the statement from the Federal Reserve’s policy committee and news conference by Chairman Ben Bernanke later in the day. The Federal Reserve looks set to sustain its $85…