It’s been a crazy week for gold, oil and the SP500 again…. Since the market top in April we have seen large moves almost EVERY day in the market. I would say this is one of the toughest times for traders as you must be very quick to enter and exit...
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I have to wonder, are we entering the ending phase of this cyclical bull? For sometime now I’ve noticed the similarities between the `02-`07 cyclical bull and what we’ve experienced since March of last year. The one difference is that this time we’ve truncated the middle phase of the bull. I...
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Weekly Wrapup....
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If you embrace the old Wall Street adage "Sell in May and Go Away" as an investing strategy, you could end up with a bad case of the U.S. stock market summer blues, a new research study has found.....
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Let me start off by pointing out that we did indeed break below the yearly cycle low yesterday. I’ve been saying for a couple of weeks now that a break of 1044 would change the pattern of higher lows. That would be the first warning shot across the bow that the cyclical...
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By Tom Dyson “We’ve suddenly got some activity…” My father lives in a wealthy suburb of New York, where many Wall Street bankers live. He’s been trying to sell his house for nearly three years… He’s maintained the house and garden in perfect condition, he’s hired the most aggressive realtors, and he’s discounted...
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Investors who are looking to the XNG:NYSE Natural Gas Index to tell them the future of  natural gas prices could be making a costly mistake. XNG:NYSE – which tracks large cap companies in the US natural gas industry – has been heading up for 12 months – in the directly opposite direction...
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The U.S. economy expanded at a 3.2 percent annual rate in the first quarter as households spent more freely, setting the stage for gains in employment that may help the recovery broaden and accelerate.....
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I first became aware of a potential broadening top formation last August, as my cyclical studies suggested a peak in August followed by a potential decline into the fall of 2009. That was not to happen, but I remained piqued by the continued behavior of the DJIA shown in the chart below.....
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In last week’s Money and Markets column I told you the majority of my indicators are signaling that the stock market has probably entered the last phase of its medium-term uptrend, which began in March 2009.....
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