The Stock Market – Various Technical Analysis Aspects

The following chart is annotated by Ron Walker, of thechartpatterntrader.com : (click on chart to enlarge image)(chart courtesy of StockCharts.com) As one can see, it is a chart of the S&P500 on a daily basis since March of 2009.  Yesterday’s closing price of the S&P500 (1286.94) is very near the black rising trendline from the March …

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Analyst And Strategist S&P500 Earnings Estimates For 2011 & 2012

On June 27 The Wall Street Journal published an article titled “Stocks Fall.  Optimism Stands Tall.” As seen in this article: Analysts expect the S&P 500 companies to earn $99.86 a share in aggregate this year, up 2.3% from their April 1 estimate, according to FactSet. Strategists expect $95.24, according to John Butters, senior earnings …

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S&P500 Price Projections – Livingston Survey June 2011

The June 9, 2011  Livingston Survey (pdf) contains, among its various forecasts, a S&P500 forecast.  It shows the following price forecast for the dates shown: June 30, 2011   1340 Dec. 30, 2011   1380 June 29, 2012  1413.5 Dec. 31, 2012    1463.5 These figures represent the median value across the 35 forecasters on the …

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The S&P500 Since 2007

In the October 27, 2010 blog post (“Market Overview – Part V:  Stock Market”) I showed two charts of the S&P500. As we are now approaching various important technical levels of the S&P500, I have updated one of the charts, as seen below: chart courtesy of StockCharts.com; annotations by the author click on chart to …

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The Groupon & LinkedIn IPOs – Broader Significance

On March 1 I wrote a post titled “The Stock Market Bubble – Various Aspects.” In that post I highlighted a variety of factors that support my conclusion that the entire stock market is experiencing a bubble. One of the factors listed was “Extremely rapid valuation increases seen in a variety of private (tech) companies to …

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Standard & Poors S&P500 Earnings Estimates For 2011 & 2012

As many are aware, Standard & Poors publishes earnings estimates for the S&P500.  (My previous posts concerning their estimates can be found in the under the S&P500 Earnings tag) Currently, their estimates for 2011 add to the following: -From a “bottom up” perspective, operating earnings of $98.06/share -From a “top down” perspective, operating earnings of $94.89/share …

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