Market Moods

Mood Moves Masters of the Universe

dvdpenn — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:25:59 -0500

From Rick Santelli's apparently not-so-spontaneous Chicago Tea Party rant (a shadow of CNBC's Jim Cramer whose "They Know Nothing" tirade against Ben Bernanke - o read more »

Waiting for the Dow Theory NonCon

dvdpenn — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:00:43 -0500

Today, working on TradingMarkets 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Today, I noticed that the iShares Dow Jones Transportation Index ETF, IYT had made a move below the November lows.
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Mood Moves Ritholtz

dvdpenn — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:05:14 -0500

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?" read more »

Turning a Double into a Triple

dvdpenn — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:17:07 -0500

First Blago, now Warren? read more »

Bear Market Blagojevich

dvdpenn — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:25:31 -0500

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 liquida read more »

The R Word, The C Word

dvdpenn — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:40:26 -0500

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. read more »

Spectacles of Discontent

dvdpenn — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:37:10 -0500

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. read more »

Mood Moves Soros

dvdpenn — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:10:19 -0500

"Because markets do have moods." read more »

From Non Confirmation to Symmetrical Triangle

dvdpenn — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:02:05 -0500

An interesting conversation over at the website of one of my favorite technical analysts and cycles analysts, Tim Wood of Cyclesman.Info over the weekend. For fans of cycles, Elliott wave and read more »

Building a Wall of Worry

dvdpenn — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:09:28 -0500

It is axiomatic that sentiment and social mood begins to improve even as objective reality still looks pretty lousy. Generally what we see is a key conflict between the general misery and a g read more »