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2009 will be a year of complete destruction for the US economy. 5 Million will lose their jobs. The Dow Jones Industrial average will break below 6,000. Municipalities will fail. Insurers will fail. The unemployed and foreclosed American population will take to the streets and begin rioting. The Greatest Depression is upon us.
Sound far fetched? [...]

No  sign of a bottom! The S&P 500 Index has violated it’s 2002 lows. The financial sector remains in free fall. Hartford Insurance appears to be the next AIG, and Citigroup the next Lehman.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is coming close to it’s moment of truth, a test of it’s 2002 lows. A breach of [...]

The stock market continued it’s slide this week with the financial stocks leading the way.
Goldman Sachs, UBS, Citigroup & Merrill Lynch make fresh new lows.

Both Houses of Morgan (JP Morgan & Morgan Stanley) show relative strength while Goldman Sachs and Citigroup look the weakest.

Charting Stocks
First time readers are encouraged to read my 2007 outlook report which was written on January 1, 2007. Click the link below to read.
The Coming Stock Market Crash of 2007
In my previous post, I mentioned that the short term move up would most likely stall at 13,500 on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. I [...]

Charting Stocks Update
August 19, 2007
“The US government is on a ‘burning platform’ of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon.
..These include “dramatic” tax rises, slashed government services and the large-scale dumping by foreign governments of holdings of US [...]

Charting Stocks
April 1, 2006
“All great inflations end with the acceptance of real money—gold—and the rejection of political money—paper. The stage is now set; monetary order is of the utmost importance. Conditions are deteriorating, and the solutions proposed to date have only made things worse. Although the solution is readily available to us, powerful forces whose [...]

Charting Stocks Update
March 17, 2007
Merrill Lynch urges the Fed to cut rates:
Merrill Analyst — “If the inflation-fighting Federal Reserve were to keep rates unchanged to contain price growth — instead of cutting by 1 percentage point in the second half of 2007 as Merrill expects — then this would put the probability of an outright [...]

March 4, 2007
The Bear Market Has Begun
(Update 2008: OK, so I was a bit early!)
In “The Coming Stock Market Crash of 2007,” I made the case for a major stock market decline based on both macroeconomic events and technical weakness emerging in the global financial markets. At the time, my view was against [...]

February 26, 2007
There’s an old saying on Wall Street–”Where the broker-dealers go, so goes the market.”
After a day of heavy selling pressure, the AMEX broker-dealer index broke below the 50 day moving average. This is not a good sign for the health of the market.
Below we see the index breaking down after todays trading.

The following [...]

Charting Stocks Weekly Update
Negative divergence has been present in the major average for the past couple of months. Meaning that while the price action of the major averages have been moving higher, some of their respective indicators have been moving in the opposite direction (lower). In a true uptrend, you’d like to see [...]