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Stocks take a rest — will they wake up rejuvenated?

As I often do, I am taking the opportunity to provide an overview of this weekend’s stock market BUY and SELL signals available at Alert HQ. This weekend we have the following stock picks and signals:
Reversal Alerts based on daily data, we have 34 A…

Earnings finally matter — and the market recovers

Having spent the day working on renovating a bathroom I confess I don’t have the energy to get too deeply into another post tonight. Still, I wanted to share the the weekly charts from Alert HQ.

The view from Alert HQ –

The data for the following c…

All it takes is one bad day and advantage goes to the bears

Friday stocks staged another retreat just when bulls were looking for upside follow-through. Instead of a nice push above the 50-day moving average, confirming the bullish trend, we got a 3% drop that wiped out more than a week’s worth of gains. Now, c…

Market turns on a dime last week — now, fundamentals will rule

The market turned on a dime this week. Pundits struggled to find a decent reason. An increase in the IMF’s GDP forecast for 2010 was modest, a drop in weekly jobless claims was welcome but still modest, retail sales reports for June were mixed (though …

One bad month of data and the wheels come off — could the technical situation be any worse?

This past week’s market action seemed especially vicious with the S&P 500 dropping 5%, the NASDAQ dropping 5.9% and the Russell 2000 falling 7.2%.

I’ve spent the last two weeks looking at the Alert HQ data and thinking stocks might still have some…

Not dead yet

I’ve been on the road this weekend, bringing my sons to visit their grand-dad and celebrate his 89th birthday. As a result, posting has been slim over the last few days but I wanted to provide these charts for your consideration as an alternative to th…

Say what you will about the fundamentals — this market is going up

OK, I’m well aware of all the fundamental issues facing this market: stubborn unemployment, slowing leading indicators, shaky real estate, the European crisis, etc. Markets, however, have a way of doing what they wish regardless of what may or may not …

Mr. Market trips over jobs report - bulls left hiding in the cellar?

After a week of erratic but decently consolidative action, markets hit a real rough patch on Friday. With comments from Hungary implying the country was at risk of default setting up the market with a negative bias, the Nonfarm Payrolls Report pulled t…

Weekend Winners and Losers for May 28, 2010

This post is a combination of our occasional Weekly Review and the Weekend Winners and Losers available at Alert HQ.

Today we have the following stock picks and signals:
Reversals based on daily data, we have 20 Alert HQ BUY signals and 9 SELL…

Weekend Winners and Losers for May 14, 2010

This post is a combination of our Weekly Review (seldom seems to arrive on a weekly basis lately) and the Weekend Winners and Losers available at Alert HQ.

Today we have the following stock picks and signals:
Reversals based on daily data, we have …