A Major Crash Is Coming?

Just finished a PPT doc on this topic but still finding the way to post it.

The take is the chance to see one coming is pretty high. A 15%-20% correction on global indexes is expected in March/April and 40%+ (from top to bottom) correction for the year of Horse 2014.

A Solar Cycle site

Just come across a very interesting site www.solarcycles.net. Also a working paper by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta suggested that people affected by geomagnetic storms may be more inclined to sell stocks on stormy days because they incorrectly attribute their bad mood to negative economic prospects rather than bad environmental conditions.
Must Read.

From Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D.

*  Abnormal Returns continues to do a great job of curating the financial web and finding valuable nuggets.

*  Bella from SMB touches on a topic near and dear to my heart:  using data to improve the decision making of discretionary traders. 

*  Some good quant work on Rob Hanna's Quantifiable Edges site, including a recent look at stretched volatility readings.

*  A wealth of information on Rennie Yang's Market Tells service; another site I like for unique market analytics is Decision Point, which has recently merged with the Stock Charts service.

*  Charles Kirk on the value of wiping the slate clean and when it makes sense to read less.

Euro Falls as Report Signals ECB Mulling Negative Deposit Rate

The euro fell for a second day versus the dollar after a report cited an official saying the European Central Bank is considering charging lenders to deposit spare cash with it.

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Mobius Says Emerging-Market Selloff to Deepen on Outflows

The worst isn’t over for emerging markets after the benchmark stock index sank to a five-month low and the nations’ currencies tumbled, said Templeton Emerging Markets Group’s Mark Mobius.

“The negative sentiment is pretty much in place so you can expect a lot more selling,” Mobius, 77, who oversees more than $50 billion in developing-nation assets as an executive chairman at Templeton, said in an interview from Rio de Janeiro today. “We are looking but actually not buying at this stage. Prices can come down or take time to stabilize.”