There was a strong end of
day rally in the stock market from a trend following perspective..
Not exact matches
Stocks in Europe finished higher Thursday afternoon, on the last trading
day of the quarter, with a
rally in the autos sector helping to boost investor sentiment.
Jim Cramer says the
rally in the
stock market over the last two
days is a textbook example of why no one ever made a dime panicking.
Hedge fund billionaire David Tepper said Thursday he's «not as bullish» as he could be — taking a more cautious view of the
stock market almost five years to the
day since his comments on CNBC sparked the «Tepper
Rally»
in the
stock market.
U.S.
stock futures are sharply higher
in early trading, after Thursday's 421 - point surge for the Dow surge, which added to big gains
in the prior session and chalked up a 4.2 % two -
day rally for the index — its biggest two -
day percent gain since November 2011.
Take the «Romney
Rally,» for instance — when the
stock market rose, absent any other obvious cause, the
day after Mitt Romney was widely considered to have won a presidential debate
in 2012.
Commodities started the week without a clear direction, as industrials are down together with
stocks, crude oil is also a bit lower after the late -
day rally on Friday, while gold is edging higher following a negative Asian session, being back to unchanged thanks to the dip
in the Dollar and
stocks.
While investors» immediate reaction to the court ruling was of the unsurprising knee - jerk variety, reality started to set
in over the last few
days and solar
stocks took a nosedive as sharp as the
rally they enjoyed last week.
As we approach Christmas
Day, many traders and investors are anticipating a «Santa Claus
rally»
in the
stock market... and with good reason.
Numerous times
in the past, a cluster of distribution
days after an extended
rally, combined with the suddenly poor performance of individual leadership
stocks, has been enough to prompt us to exit long positions within just a few percent of a market top (check out this actual such example from mid-2012).
Dow slumps as IBM's
stock logs worst
day in 5 years; energy sector buoys broader market Energy shares
rally on surging oil pricesThe Dow industrials end lower on Wednesday as IBM's shares get walloped; however, gains
in shares of energy - related firms help the broader market post modest gains.
U.S.
stock - index futures rose, after the biggest four -
day rally in three years sent equity benchmarks to a record, as data showed the world's largest economy surged
in the third quarter.
U.S.
stocks rallied Tuesday as a late surge helped them regain almost half their losses from the
day before, when they had their biggest plunge
in 6 1/2 years amid heavy trading and huge swings for the market.
Put simply, this means that most of the
stocks that have been
rallying in recent
days have been «junk off the bottom» plays.
As the graph above indicates, leading small and mid-cap growth
stocks have pretty much remained stagnant, despite the
rally in the broad market of the past few
days.
With the main
stock market indexes posting back to back accumulation
days (higher volume gains), the odds of the broad market staging a significant
rally have increased dramatically
in just a few
days.
When the
stock market is
in a strong, multi-month
rally, it usually takes five or more «distribution
days» (broad - based losses on higher volume) to end the momentum of the uptrend.
(The one predictable exception to grown - up behavior was on Wall Street, where traders celebrated the demise of their onetime antagonist amid the biggest one -
day stock rally in five years.)
A trader walks
in New York City's financial district on Sept. 12, a
day when
stocks fell early based on fears that the Greek government would default, then
rallied on news that China might buy Italian debt.
The impact of a bear market on an investor's emotions and psyche is quite different when you're going through it
in real time, when
stock prices are tumbling
day after
day, when
rallies fizzle and lead to even bigger losses, when there's no end
in sight and you see your hard - earned savings dwindling before your eyes.
Last week, the benchmark S&P 500 Index fell just shy of 5 per cent
in five
days and now investors are wondering — does the liquidity - fueled
rally in the US
Stock Market resume?
In the last month, the U.S.
stock market is down just 0.8 percent, but it's been a bumpy ride: Since Dec. 9, the S&P 500 has had a 4 percent selloff, a 6 percent
rally, and a 4 percent drop that ended Thursday with a two -
day gain of 3 percent.
The financial guarantor
stocks have
rallied massively
in the last few
days, and I think those
rallies are mistaken.
It was referring instead to a 24 %
rally in the shares and described «what analysts said was a partial correction from the
stock's sharp decline
in the first four
days of the week.»
The current bull
rally has seen 76 percent of
stocks in the S&P 500 index trade above their 50 -
day moving average — a key level for technical traders and analysts.
I have recently traded the Flash & Debt Crash from the move down and back up, I bought the lows
in some of my favorite
stocks and watched
rally several points going into the end of the
day.
Stocks closed sharply higher
in a major reversal that saw the Dow
rally more than 700 points from its session low, assisted by some short - covering activity that further accelerated the upward move
in the major averages to their best marks of the
day.
The
rally in stocks snuffed early sizable advances by gold and long - dated U.S. Treasurys, with both of those assets ending the
day modestly lower.
Although US
stocks staged a late -
day rally thanks to the bounce
in Amazon yesterday, sellers are back
in full force today, as markets have been trending...
Last week marked another record high for the most important US
stock indices, but there is a catch; the recent
rally was the weakest
in history regarding market breadth, with the fewest
stocks above the 50 -
day Moving Averages.