Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

Yesterday's US GDP was well below expectations, but the market rallied after the FOMC meeting statement. The Fed expects the economy to expand at a stronger pace and this gave a boost to the markets....

The S&P 500 rallied and is now near a previous resistance which is the top on April 22nd. The current move up is a C wave and this move should subdivide into five waves on the 15-mn chart. So far...

Bull Tuesday came good once again. But not really dipping as far as I would have liked for the long entry. The short from 6749 worked out well for a few points in the morning then prices bounce back...

The UK stock market could be riding for quite a fall. That, at least, is the message coming from the current valuation of London-listed Investment Trusts. Currently, the UK Investment Trust...

A bit of a strange day yesterday, the FTSE 100 didn't really do much all day, staying in a very tight range (that 6711 short came good for a few in the end so well done those that held) and never...

AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline have both been in the news this week. In fact, to some extent, they have been the news this week.Investors flocked to buy Astrazeneca Plc (AZN.LONDON) shares when...

I’ve written a lot recently about the FTSE 100, whether it’s expensive or cheap and different ways of visualising the range of values it could reasonably reach; so when a friend of a...

You can tell it is earnings season: the FTSE 100 had a little bounce at 6670 stalled, fell back, climbed again and all within a 30 point range for the day.All very boring! Even Gold only had an 8...

We are working our way through the Q1 2014 earnings season and now is a good time to take a breather and see how companies are doing. We will concentrate on US corporates since they often release...

With the US trading yesterday there was a bit of movement in the FTSE 100 Futures, and the 6670 area looks like a key short term resistance, with 6681 above. For today, I am expecting a small rise...

The FTSE 100 became rather bullish in the end yesterday. The initial short I took at 6620 got stopped out. But a few were gained off the higher resistance area at 6649. However, the bulls still...

It has certainly being a bit tricky this week and I wasn't expecting to see 6550 yesterday. That was the bottom of the 20 day Bianca channel and held pretty well in the end, though the initialisation...

Mears Group (MERG.LSE) is a bit of an undercover defensive. It’s not a company that gets much attention among investors (at least those that I know), and yet it has a fantastically successful...

Little bit of a strange day yesterday, we got the rise and dip, but the rise took a while to get going, fell just short of the 6682 short order (high was 6673), then dropped all the way to a low of...