Fundstrat's Tom Lee, the creator of the Bitcoin Misery Index and the author of numerous bullish cryptocurrency forecasts, now expects the end
of the bearish market for altcoins.
Bill Barhydt, the founder and CEO of Abra, the global smartphone app that lets users buy, store, and invest in twenty cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ripple (XRP), told Business Insider on Wednesday that, in spite
of the bearish market conditions, traders ought to «watch out» for an imminent rally.
Bill Barhydt, the founder and CEO of Abra, the global smartphone app that lets users buy, store, and invest in twenty cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ripple (XRP), told Business Insider on Wednesday that, in spite
of the bearish market conditions, traders ought to «watch out» for...
Bitcoin is still extremely volatile, but it seems most
of the bearish market pressure has subsided.
Overall the BCH community is in high spirits even with the past few weeks
of bearish market sentiment.
Market Updates After the past few weeks
of bearish market sentiment within the cryptocurrency economy, a wide variety of digital assets are starting to gain higher values.
But, they add, «Cash levels are a residual outcome of our process rather than a reflection
of a bearish market view.
(Confirmation
of bearish market structure)
It does kind of bum me out that I may have lost a small opportunity to take advantage
of bearish markets but no sense in kicking myself too hard, it doesn't bother me as much as it used to and I think that's because amidst not being able to purchase discounted blue chip stocks, I ended up buying a house with help from my parents, and now I am a home owner with no mortgage (just a debt to my parents which I hope to pay off ASAP).
It is also noteworthy to point out that excessive volatility is an earmark
of bearish markets, and volatility is not a friend of trend - following swing traders.
Not exact matches
Not only does it spread around the risks
of commercialization, but also ensures continued funding in the increasingly
bearish VC
market for green energy.
Yet while Hartnett's
bearish side has driven much
of his recent commentary, he still sees a way for the stock
market's ongoing rally to become the «greatest bull
market of all time.»
For this section
of Hartnett's
bearish playbook, he highlights a few stock
market dynamics he finds anomalous, particularly compared to recent history.
While it doesn't stand alone as a negative force,
market pundits like John Hussman — a former economics professor who is president
of the Hussman Investment Trust — have used it in tandem with other breadth indicators to make
bearish proclamations.
The outspoken Societe Generale global strategist was watching the National Federation
of Independent Businesses» small - business survey, whose results Tuesday further fueled his already
bearish market view.
Despite his
bearish tech forecast, Glazer believes the underlying fundamentals
of the economy are intact, and that bodes well for the overall stock
market.
CNBC contributor Mike Khouw breaks down a
bearish bet on the VIX in the options
market ahead
of tomorrow's presidential election.
Strong credit
markets give companies borrowing options to boost their stock prices, while making
bearish investors scramble to close out trades before losing any more money, both
of which then push the stock
market even higher and continue the self - reinforcing bullish cycle.
«A
bearish inventory report was quickly negated on word
of intercepted rockets over Riyadh, which just adds to the recent spike in geopolitical tensions,» said Anthony Headrick, energy
market analyst and commodities futures broker at CHS Hedging LLC.
Far from being perma -
bearish, our present methods
of classifying
market return / risk profiles encourage a leveraged long position about 52 %
of the time in
market cycles across history, encouraging a partially - hedged stance about 12 %
of the time, fully - hedged about 31 %
of the time, and hard - defensive as we are today about 5 %
of the time.
If you're new to technical analysis, the title
of this sub-heading may sound like an Italian rock band, but both terms are actually technical indicators I more frequently use in
bearish or downtrending
markets.
The faith in the effectiveness
of interest rate cuts has driven the percentage
of bearish investment advisors to a dangerously low 25.5 %, while the average equity allocation
of Wall Street strategists is now above 70 %, the highest level in this
market cycle and quite probably a record.
Frances Cheung, head
of rates strategy for Asia ex-Japan at Societe Generale, said on Friday that the
market was «quite
bearish.»
The short - term chart pattern recently turned
bearish, as the broad stock
market took a nasty tumble throughout the month
of February.
Global Currency Strategist Hans Redeker notes that
bearish positioning in the futures
market shows the most extreme negative view
of the dollar since April 2009.
We've put together a list
of ten stocks that could continue to earn strong returns even if the
market turns
bearish.
Based on historical patterns, when a
market «flips» from bullish to
bearish after a long period
of moving in the same direction, the
market will usually remain
bearish for an extended period
of time.
In bull
markets, when a
market makes a new high consistently, every day a large heard
of bearish traders are getting stopped out
of short positions and liquidating, which fuels yet more buying.
Although we are not yet at the point
of making a
bearish call on the
market, one ETF that is showing considerable relative weakness is Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF
market, one ETF that is showing considerable relative weakness is
Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF
Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX).
This one man may be to blame for the recent weakness in stocks, says analyst
Bearish comments from Caterpillar's CFO were applied to the whole
market, Bell saysThe U.S. stock
market has struggled recently, with the Dow on track for its fifth straight daily decline despite one
of the best earnings seasons on record.
When volatility is average, options prices will typically be a little lower than during a
bearish market and that might cause options that are farther out
of the money to be priced so low that the risks involved outweigh the profit potential.
Nervousness is dominant across asset classes, but especially bond
markets and major currencies are in the center
of attention, with equities struggling to gain footing following the most
bearish two months in years, after the volatile holiday - shortened week.
Actually, after several days
of market declines, Thursday's rally was somewhat
bearish in the sense that it prevented the
market from becoming oversold.
«The recent rally is also a reflection
of the extremely
bearish sentiment and positioning on emerging
markets,» he said.
Mark Hulbert
of the Hulbert Financial Digest reports that the top risk - adjusted
market timers over any time frame are uniformly
bearish here.
Given the
bearish action described above, our
market timing strategy generated a sell signal on the close
of October 12, 2012.
Highlights April continues to amaze but after an impressive rally, Bitcoin and other majors showed signs
of bearish exhaustion as the
market became overbought after topping out at $ 9,767 today.
These numbers split out two categories
of credit bet: a bullish type that makes money if the
market thinks companies and countries are getting more creditworthy, and a
bearish type that makes money when the opposite happens.
Although our
bearish analysis will undoubtedly anger the loyal army
of Apple fanboys, we are merely being objective by saying that recent price action
of AAPL (and quite a few other former
market leaders) indicates a changing
of the guards is on the horizon.
For the U.S.
market, they define investor sentiment using an American Association
of Individual Investors (AAII) value index (percent bullish minus percent
bearish), derived from a weekly survey
of individual investors regarding their outlook for U.S. equities over the next six months and published before the
market open on Thursdays.
In an open group Q&A session with tech entrepreneur Wang Feng on WeChat on Thursday, Cai disclosed that although he was holding a single bitcoin in January
of this year, he moved to increase his portfolio over the first quarter
of 2018 amid the
bearish market's lower prices.
For the German
market, they define investor sentiment using the Sentix value index (percent bullish minus percent
bearish), derived from a weekly survey
of institutional and individual investors regarding their outlook for German equities over the next six months and published on weekends.
Last week's stock
market plunge is a perfect example
of how quickly the momentum can switch from bullish to
bearish.
Ihor Dusaniwsky, head
of research at financial analytics firm S3 Partners, says investors have been increasing their
bearish bets on stocks throughout the past two years in anticipation
of a stock
market sell - off.
The overall rebound has pushed most cryptocurrencies a little higher this morning but only the rest
of the week will determine whether this is a true reversal or the
markets are still
bearish.
The
bearish long term divergence between these
markets has now been rounded out with a series
of bearish short - term divergences:
All
of the major coins are trading lower today after a
bearish weekend, as altcoins are still underperforming Bitcoin, with the
market leader holding up well...
Again, this is all a hypothetical, but if some
of this «sense» around said USD «bull driver» turning potentially
bearish was to «leak» into the
market, it would take some
of the air out
of the «long USD» trade — and that is where things could go off the rails.
By no means are we suggesting that we're
bearish on the
market; rather, the likelihood is growing that this phase
of the bull
market rally may be approaching a level that is unsustainable in the near - term.
There are all sorts
of reasons why one should be out
of the
market or why one should be
bearish.