Stock Rally Stalls with Republican Win; Investment & Finance Thread Nov. 9, 2014

Whoa, the past week was decisive in more ways than one!

A week ago we took inventory of then-current trends and considered which scenarios would lead where.  All we knew for sure was that either things would stay their courses or we'd change direction.  What happened is we dumped 'business as usual' --as far as trend-lines went-- and we now got signals pointing at "something new".   That 'something new' might even be a basing/stage prep for a continued price surge (Stock Indexes In Pause Mode, But That Can Do Uptrend Good).  Maybe.  Or then again it might be what we got w/ the previous two rallies over the past half year and we're in a top-off.

OK, so we're not saying the Republican win halted the stock rally.  One idea is that the election results had already been priced into indexes last week and the current upheaval is nothing more than static --like what we had w/ the 2010 midterms (h/t oblomov) when the uptrend staggered for a few weeks before taking off like gangbusters.

As or metals this past week's been a continuation of the general down turn w/ silver dropping almost 2% and gold down more than 4%.