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Mood Moves Ritholtz

David Penn | Wed, 01/14/2009 - 2:05pm | elliot wave, moodmovesmarkets, NERD, Ritholtz, sentiment, Sooner or Later, stock market crash, The Big Picture |  4 comments

Trader and author of The Big Picture blog, Barry Ritholtz asked recently, "Here’s an interesting question: Are videos like this one more likely nearer to tops or bottoms?" He was refering to "Sooner or Later," what he called "video of the year" by a group calle ... Read more

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Bear Market Blagojevich

David Penn | Mon, 12/15/2008 - 8:25am | Bear market, blagojevich, market bottom, sentiment, stock market crash |  Add a comment

I've sometimes thought of liquidation that occurs during bear markets as akin to those old fables about the over-ambitious offering up their eternal souls for temporal glories.  I'm no liquidationist.  But to see so many of the once-mighty come to ruin as an almost direct result of their ... Read more

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Spectacles of Discontent

David Penn | Mon, 12/01/2008 - 9:37am | India, market bottom, mood, moving average, Mumbai, sentiment, stock market, Thailand, trading |  6 comments

One of the golden rules of mood analysis is that major declines in social mood will always be accompanied by dramatic outbreaks of mass violence. While I had watched the growing protests in Thailand, I thought that there still needed to be an even greater spectacle of discontent before this be ... Read more

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Mood and the Miracle on the Hudson

David Penn | Mon, 01/19/2009 - 9:29am | miracle on the hudson, new york, sentiment, stock market bottom |  Add a comment

Along with the upcoming inauguration of president elect Barack Obama, the Miracle on the Hudson - in which a US Airways jet plane made an emergency landing in the Hudson River late in the day on Thursday, with all 155 on board surviving - is likely to be remembered as among the "good things&quo ... Read more

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A Tradable Rally in Equities, Risk Aversion Takes a Reprieve, and Key Levels to Determine Sentiment for the Week

John Netto | Mon, 12/08/2008 - 12:51am | Fibonacci, gold, Inflection Points, Japanese Yen ETF, NOB Spread, sentiment, Treasury Bonds |  Add a comment

Market Overview for the Week of December 8-12 In the current trading environment we are navigating, understanding the key drivers behind price action and sentiment goes a long way in determining one's profitability. It's been well-documented the correlation between a numb ... Read more

The R Word, the C Word

David Penn | Sun, 12/07/2008 - 8:41pm | capitulation, moodmovesmarkets, recession, sentiment, stock market bottom |  Add a comment

With the outgoing administration finally able to utter the phrase "recession", we have another crucial element in the sort of capitulation that we'll need before we see a rebound in mood.  As in all recoveries, the first step of the process lies in admitting there is a problem.  ... Read more

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The Geithner Bottom?

David Penn | Mon, 11/24/2008 - 5:00am | Bottom, Geithner, Japan, mood, Obama, Rally, sentiment, stocks |  3 comments

The appointment of New York Fed President Timothy Geithner - "not Wall Street guy" - as Treasury secretary in the incoming Obama administration is this week's most compelling market mood match.  The announcement, by many accounts, helped send the stock market soaring late in trading ... Read more

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How NOT to Read Market Moods

David Penn | Mon, 11/10/2008 - 11:30am | Bloomberg, Brian Wesbury, Democratic, Predictions, Presidential Election, Republican, sentiment, stock market |  1 comment

Brian Wesbury is a smart guy.  But suggesting that the first press conference by President-elect Obama on Friday was instantaneously causing a sell-off in the stock market - as Mr. Wesbury did in an interview on Bloomberg TV - really just begs the question: to what do we ascribe the fact that ... Read more

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Welcome to Market Moods!

David Penn | Sat, 11/01/2008 - 3:34pm | investing, market psychology, politics, pop culture, sentiment, sociology, sports, stock trading |  1 comment

When I first got into the business of writing about the financial markets, it was the summer of 2000.   Seven years later, in the fall of 2007, I was offered and accepted a position as senior editor of TradingMarkets. Given how the markets behaved shortly after those two career moves, it mi ... Read more