Do you ever wake up, look around, and for a moment think, "This all seems so familiar, as if it has happened before?" I suspect that feeling of deja vu is not common for most of us, at least it does not happen all of the time, but it is becoming more...
Ultimately, no matter the market sentiment on any given day, the goal of every trader or investor is to make money, right? Okay, that is a statement of the obvious, but what we have in this current market environment are more than a few folks suggesting...
This morning, as I watched the market open, a sea of green with just a speck of red filled my screen. In the middle of the upward-moving indices, the speck of red looked isolated and lonely. The VIX stood out as the only index to go down as the rest went...
Is anyone panicking? Should anyone be panicking? After all, the market did roll over yesterday and it doesn't look promising today ... I guess none of what the market does matters anyway, especially if you believe the latest wild-eyed wanderer shouting...
On the cusp, always on the cusp. It seems this is the way for the market these days. Frankly, it is a bit tiring - will the market rollover or will it begin a long leg up? Speculation abounds and one has to constantly analyze the analysts, consider and...
Last night, I found my way back to Utah again, but I paid a price to get here. I crawled into bed just as my digital watch metaphorically struck the hour of 3:28 in the dark of the early morning. As I write this, it is but a mere four hours later, which...
Ketchup, airlines, and computers all received a nice bump this week, as M&A activity in the US economy picked up dramatically. Yup, the word on the street is that some of that big cash-on-the-books is starting to flow toward accretive activity....
Way back, sometime in the near-distant past (hard to see which), when the Fed started its quantitative easing program (QE), the price of gold shot up. The loudest voices among the clamoring mass of voices shouting doom told everyone to buy gold because...
Sometimes, it is hard to stick to the plan. I admit it. You have the trade, you know what you want to do, and when it is time to do it, you look and the indicators and the market are saying, "Hold on, you could get more on the upside or sell, the market...
Don't you just hate it when a "thing" latches onto your thinking and it will not let go? As you all know, my "thing" is the doomsayers. I want to let go of my seeming obsession with their nonsense, but every day, both old and new doomsayers get in my...
Not a bad weekend, if I don't say so myself. I found some time to do some interesting reading regarding our favorite topic - the market. I must say, the bears are rhetorically fighting back against the stronger data-point case of the bulls. U.S. capital...
So, just as I thought, the market decided to open on the upside today ... up and down, up and down ... Boom! Just like that, the bulls are out in force defending the recent rise in the stock market. I guess they got tired of the bears filling up all the...
Okay, the market likes the accommodating stance the central banks around the world have taken, right? Draghi said an economic recovery should begin later this year as an absence of inflation risks allows the ECB to maintain record-low interest rates. To...
At the top of the hill mid-week, the market appears at a crossroads, of sorts. Down, up, down since Monday. Take a look at 3-day charts for both the DIJA and the S&P 500. The movement has created virtually identical patterns, but that is merely a...
Can anyone say volatility? A 350-plus or minus swing in three days is, well, volatile. Yesterday, the market dove because of the worries about southern Europe, or so the breathless media told us. Today, we have the news from Europe ... Eurozone Services...