Bubbles

In the world of stocks and shares sentiment plays a big part in the valuation of a stock. The basic relationship is that when stocks are expensive and sentiment is bullish stocks become dearer, and when stocks are cheap and sentiment is bearish they become cheaper. Remember the merger between AOL and Time Warner in […]

Royal Mail (LSE:RMG) has become a hot cake in that it offers investing possibilities to interested ones. However, a closer look at the current price action suggests that bearish attempts cannot be overruled. Generally, the bias on the chart is bullish. The price is now in a sort of consolidation, while the RSI period 14 […]

It’s the last day to get a 50% discounted early bird ticket to the investment show of the year – UK Investor 2014 on April 5. We know that other investor shows are free. They have weak speakers and the sort of companies that pitch up to present are of little interest to me or […]

Sometimes investing makes you smile.  Other times it can make you want to jump off the nearest tall building.  Although certainly not the only sector that can take you through those highs and lows, mining provides a pretty good example that investing is not for the faint of heart.  Take these recent headlines, for example: […]

If you see a parade of brightly colored Austin Minis driving in circles around Piccadilly Circus later today, it will be Foxtons (LSE:FOXT) celebrating the company’s extraordinary IPO on the London Exchange today. My perspective on IPOs in general is that anything goes.  With Foxtons’ IPO everything went! The company floated 169.4 million shares.  It […]

I was pondering the ups and downs of the FTSE 100 this morning as I was reading headlines from a couple of dozen newspapers.  One source said that waiting for this month’s imminent U.S. Federal Reserve announcement was holding the FTSE down.  Another said that the FTSE will reach 8,000.  The problem was that it […]

At today’s FOMC meeting the committee will have to make some big decisions. One main topic for policymaker’s consideration is whether or not to begin the process of tapering QE, and if they decide to taper, when to start. The timing of the tapering could have a massive impact on the stock market which has […]

Everyone knows that the markets drooped following Wednesday’s U.S. Federal Reserve update from Ben Bernanke.  You should also know by now that I am a big-picture kind of guy, but when one observes from the 30,000 foot level, one also misses some of the details that, on any other day, would be major headlines.  For […]

I have always been a believer in “the trend is your friend” but on 22nd May I was on my guard when my unique sentiment indicator flashed a warning to the bulls. From that moment I was expecting the second chapter in the chaotic zone I wrote about on 5 April (see: http://uk.advfn.com/newspaper/thierry-laduguie/17815/the-stock-market-enters-the-chaotic-zone) to begin. […]

I have an unfair advantage when it comes to forecasting the stock market. Unlike 95% of analysts, I use sentiment and Elliott wave analysis to forecast prices which work incredibly well. These two techniques together are a powerful forecasting indicator. Take the current stock market slide for example, regular readers will know that I warned […]