Charting Stocks

Stock futures are down sharply this morning ahead of the open. The DJIA is down 170 points while the NASDAQ is off 21 points. The mainstream media sources are attributing todays selloff to a comment made from the Obama administration that suggests a GM bankruptcy is a possibility. Is that really the reason for the [...]

The once over-sold stock market has rallied for the past couple of weeks. This rally, though fresh in all of our minds, is not much different in time, or magnitude, than the previous upward corrections throughout this bear market.

The 60 minute chart below suggests that the recent rally in the Dow Jones is losing steam. In our previous post, we noted that the current move may have a bit more to go before turning back down.

The markets jumped early in the trading day in a move  led by a “Leaked” memo by Nationalized Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit which was sent to employees stating that the troubled bank was profitable in the first 2 months of 2009. He went on to describe their capital position as “Strong.”
The market, which was extremely [...]

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 both closed below their 2002 lows.
ChartingStocks.net wrote in our 2009 forecast, contrary to Wall St consensus,  that we expect the Dow Jones to breach the 6,000 level this year and touch upon 5,800. The risk to our outlook would have come if the Dow Jones was [...]

The 2008 US dollar rally is losing steam and may be coming to an end. I know that the run up in the currency left many in the financial world scratching their heads. How can the currency of a collapsing economy strengthen? Why, when trillions of new dollars are being created out of thin air, [...]

Seasonably speaking, December is one of the best months to own stocks. For the past 20 or so years the average monthly return in the month of December has exceeded 3%. Considering how quick and intense this collapse has been, one must anticipate a counter-trend upward correction. Bear markets are notorious for these but you [...]

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 [...]

January 1, 2007
Charting Stocks 2007 Outlook:
The case for a Stock Market decline in 2007
-Contraction of the manufacturing sector: Usually precedes a recession
-Auto production declining by more than 10%: Usually precedes a recession.
-The collapsing real estate market: Public Home Builders report record cancellations. KB Homes 53% of orders were cancelled in 2006. Pulte Homes 36%, [...]