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Daily State of the Markets Wednesday, October 17, 2012 Good morning. After twenty-one days in which the intraday stock market action was just plain lousy, the bulls appear to have found their long lost mojo this week. While...

Daily State of the Markets Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Good morning. Yesterday’s batch of economic data wasn’t half bad. The Commerce Department said that Retail Sales were up +1.1% in the month of September, which was...

Daily State of the Markets Monday, October 15, 2012 Good morning. To be honest, I am not a terribly political person and I try my best to keep my political views out of my writing. I generally vote for the presidential candidate...

Daily State of the Markets Friday, October 12, 2012 Good morning. Do you feel it? Is that a twinge of doubt starting to creep in? Is your stomach starting to hurt just a little after a day like yesterday? Does each and every...

Daily State of the Markets Thursday, October 11, 2012 Good morning. The question I’ve been asked most frequently this week is, “Why are stocks going down?” The question has usually been accompanied by some...

Daily State of the Markets Wednesday, October 10, 2012 Good morning. Yesterday morning’s sudden dive in the stock market was a great example of HFT (high frequency trading) in action. I was on a conference call at the time...

Daily State of the Markets Tuesday, October 9, 2012 Good morning. I am going to argue that this year’s stock market can be divided up into three or four distinctly different phases so far and that the current “sloppy...

Daily State of the Markets Thursday, October 4, 2012 Publishing Note: I am traveling on Friday morning and will not publish a report. Daily State of the Markets reports will return on Monday. Good morning. To be honest, I have a...

Daily State of the Markets Wednesday, October 3, 2012 Good morning. As we’ve been discussing lately, the recent “tape action” seen in the market hasn’t exactly been stellar. In fact, it’s been...

Daily State of the Markets Tuesday, October 2, 2012 Good morning. The bears were quick (I mean, VERY quick) to inform me that Monday’s tape action was exceptionally bad. There was talk of a “key reversal” day,...