Fed minutes and they give a hint …
A full-blown recovery will last AT LEAST 5 YEARS …
NO COMMENT …
I just tilted the SELL BUTTON …

As fundamentals are “out of favor” at the moment … here the chart perspective for the S&P:

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As you can see … the S&P started its downtrend in October 2007 and accelerated one year later into a virtual free fall.
After testing the parallel of the connection of the 2 highs (2000 and 2007), the […]

As fundamentals are “out of favor” at the moment … here the chart perspective for the DAX:

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As you can see, the German DAX is in a weekly downtrend since the start of 2008.
I highlighted the following areas:
1. The start of the acceleration of the downtrend.
2. The attempt to accelerate “big time” to […]

Markets in panic mode today … swine flu alerts in many countries …
Some people even think, it might be a HUMAN-made-virus … even linking it to terrorist activities.
A global swine flu pandemic could cut deep into already weak economies. A further cut of up to 5% is the calculation of some intelligent people.
So … whatever […]

Market found support at first meaningful supports, showing that still many people are “underinvested”.
Whether it is the cheap money from the FED or the “not-to-beat” negative expectations for the current earnings … people still moving into a market which is extremely overbought. Some people see it as the most overbought situation of the last 20-PLUS […]

After the HUGE 4-week-rallye … we face a bit of “profit taking” … tomorrow Alcoa opens the earnings season.
And after this huge run up … a lot of dissappointment could be in the cards.
Even if the quarterly earnings are ignored, the outlook could hurt prices a lot.
What should we expect? A 38% retracement (BULL case) […]

Big March expiration over … was positive as many had to cover
Bank bailout details out … greeted positively, what ever the reason …
U.S. markets jumped up a total of more than 20% … anybody telling me, it is a bull market?
Some banks and insurance companies doubled or even tripled from the low … say CITIBANK […]

After virtually throwing up after reading, that AIG will pay around 1.2 bln$ in bonuses …
The outlook for next week is “scary” …
We have the following events …
Monday: Industrial production and capacity utilization for February
Tuesday: Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee meets, Producer Price Index for February, Producer Price Index for February, Hearing on […]