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Daily Video Update: Game On - Politics, the Olympics, and the markets

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Hello traders everywhere! Adam Hewison here, co-founder of MarketClub with your mid-day market update for Monday, the 13th of August.

We are back again on Monday and seeing the markets on the defensive from where they closed on Friday. This past weekend we witnessed the closure of the summer Olympics, with an impressive medal score not only for the United States, but also for Team GB.

This past weekend Mitt Romney announced that he has picked his VP running mate, Paul Ryan, a 42-year-old Congressman from Wisconsin. Regardless of one's own political beliefs, we say Game On! What happens now in this race for the presidency is going to have a direct bearing on the markets, so we should all be paying close attention.

On the other side of the pond, BOE Governor King was quoted this weekend in the Sunday Mail (an English Newspaper) as saying he sees, "no obvious end in sight" for Europe's crisis. It would appear as though the European problem, as well as the slow down in China, is not on the radar of most traders at the moment.

Europe, China, and the upcoming general election will give traders a lot to think about. As always, we are going to rely on our Trade Triangles to point to where the markets are headed in the months ahead.

Now, let's analyze the major markets and stocks on the move using MarketClub's Trade Triangle Technology.
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Daily Video Update: Mr. Reality comes a calling on the markets

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Hello traders everywhere! Adam Hewison here, co-founder of MarketClub with your mid-day market update for Friday, the 10th of August.

Yesterday we talked about how markets sometimes go from reality to fantasy, and clearly today's news from China was more a reality check for the markets. Logically, you cannot have a recession in Europe and the US economy barely limping along and have Chinese exports jump off the charts.

Europe and the United States are the principal customers for China to sell its goods. If Europe and the US are not buying because of economic conditions, how can China keep growing its economy at a record pace?

Today could mark the start of a reality check for the markets. How the markets close today will give us more clues as to whether or not the market is putting in a top or biding its time to move higher.

How the major markets closed last Friday: S&P 500 - $1,390.99, DOW - $13,906.17, NASDAQ - $2,967.15. Should we close below these levels today, we believe that the market could once again reflect reality and head lower.

We will also examine in detail how our Trade Triangles handled the moves in Research in Motion (RIMM) and J.C. Penny (JCP). Both of these stocks are on the move today for different reasons.

Now, let's analyze the major markets and stocks on the move using MarketClub's Trade Triangle Technology.
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Daily Video Update: Is the market immune to world angst?

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Hello traders everywhere! Adam Hewison here, co-founder of MarketClub with your mid-day market update for Thursday, the 9th of August.

Should the equity markets close higher today, and I emphasize "should", that would mark the fifth day in a row the markets have closed on an up note. The last time that happened was over five months ago in early March of this year. It's a pretty rare occurrence when you see a market do this. I am sure a lot of the bears are perplexed as to why the market is not tanking given all the problems of a slowing world economy. The latest bad news report was out of China this morning, it showed that factory output had slowed in July to the weakest level in over three years and this was below what most analysts had been looking for.

Like life, there is reality and there is fantasy, and right now the market chooses to be optimistic, hoping for that ever elusive stimulus program that may never occur or it may occur sooner than we expect. One never knows for sure and it is this uncertainty that is driving the market.

Now, let's analyze the major markets and stocks on the move using MarketClub's Trade Triangle Technology.
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Daily Video Update: Are you getting a little uneasy about the markets?

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Hello traders everywhere! Adam Hewison here, co-founder of MarketClub with your mid-day market update for Wednesday, the 8th of August.

Call it a gut feeling, an intuition, or whatever, but I'm getting a little uneasy with the equity markets, and here's the reason why: Our Trade Triangles are sending out mixed signals and have been for sometime. The market has been unable to push into a +100 Score, and so far has failed to move into a -100 reading. Only our long-term Monthly Trade Triangle has consistently stayed on the negative side of the markets, despite the recent short-term rally.

Long-term indicators are important, as they tend to be correct more often than not and the markets have other major problems that are being swept under the rug at the moment. Europe is still a disaster, cities in America are going bankrupt, and huge amounts of debt have not even been addressed by either political party.

With all this as a back drop, tread carefully in the markets. We are not out of the woods yet and we may still have another reason to yell "TIMBER".

3 Monthly Trade Triangle Alerts today:
Bristol Myers-Squibb (BMY), XL Group (XL), and Lamar Advertising (LAMR)

Now, let's analyze the major markets and stocks on the move using MarketClub's Trade Triangle Technology.
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Daily Video Update: Thin AIR - are stocks going to need an oxygen mask to keep going?

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Hello traders everywhere! Adam Hewison here, co-founder of MarketClub with your mid-day market update for Tuesday, the 7th of August.

Despite all the problems in Europe, the US stock market seems to be going it alone, at least for the moment. Readers of this blog know that we have not been excited about the broad US equity markets, as our long-term indicator continues to remain in a negative mode. On the other hand, individual stocks are a different matter, as they can rally for technical and fundamental reasons.

Members only have to look at the Trade Triangles to see which stocks are trending higher and which stocks are headed for the basement. The S&P 500 is based on 500 individual stocks, and our Trade Triangle technology remains negative on that index. Eventually this impasse will be resolved one way or another and a strong trend, either on the upside or the downside, will ensue. Only time will resolve deadlock for this market. Till then, we remain stuck in a broad trading range.

Now, let's analyze the major markets and stocks on the move using MarketClub's Trade Triangle Technology.
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