US Stock Market Mini Update

Reviewing the US stock market picture from a few different angles... NFTRH been using the Equity Put/Call ratio to gauge pressure on the US stock market for all of 2015. …

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Warning to Bears… DEATH CROSS!!

This is almost too perfect.  From Friday's post: "By the way, just for fun let’s watch what happens when MarketWatch starts putting up front page articles about the Dow and…

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Hammer +2

It's 2 trading days since our Hammer Time post, that foretold a bounce.  Talk about a tough market.  Up, down, up, down.  The S&P 500 already set a record last…

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‘Hammer Time’ Foretells Bounce Time; Now What?

So Friday's post was on the mark.  Great, the bounce is here. But what are we left with?  Why, a Symmetrical Triangle that is forming on the S&P 500.  These…

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Wax Off/On = Sideways

Yesterday was wax off because as the media rationalized, some Jawbone was talking tough on interest rates (as in a September hike is on).  Today wax is on because well,…

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2 Stocks, 1 Kop

Since the October decline, into which I had some profitable short trades and out of which I had some profitable bull ones, the stock market has gone mostly sideways in…

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Utes Not Buying It

The rise in short-term bond yields seemed to result from everybody getting in line and giving the FOMC its due respect (hey, they are going to raise the Funds rate...…

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Some Leaky Charts

These range from suspect to outright ugly.  Somebody had better start buying up Junk Bonds.  Meanwhile, Treasuries are getting a bid and inflation is nowhere to be found.  Goldilocks however,…

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‘China 25’ Bounce

Also from yesterday's pre-market update (incl. 1st chart below)... We noted 42 to 43 as the initial support per Tuesday’s NFTRH+ update on FXI. “FXI is getting to a point…

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Market Sentiment Reset

Excerpted from an extensive multi-market NFTRH update (including global stocks, commodities and precious metals) yesterday morning: Volatility.  It is what we expected and it is what we have with Tuesday’s…

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3 Amigos on Turnaround Tuesday

"Turnaround Tuesday"... isn't that what they call it?  Well, it turned around for several things not called precious metals or China. I did a little buying today of strategic semiconductor…

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Biotech Leadership

Okay, so you tell me.  Is speculative leadership alive and well in this market?  Beuller? We noted in the last NFTRH edition that market sentiment had become positive on a…

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Euro ‘Me Too!’ QE Trade, Part 2 Taking Shape

In Q4 2014 Europe was hated as an investment destination, what with pervasive deflationary pressures and little more than Draghi's jawbone supporting the idea of a coming QE and a…

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