Author: Deron Wagner

The previous day’s “hanging man” candlestick pattern in the S&P 500 followed through yesterday, as the major indices moved lower across the board. Stocks gapped lower on the open, sold off further at...

Choppy, non-committal trading was the dominant theme of yesterday’s session, as the main stock market indexes again finished near the flat line and with mixed results. Stocks opened higher, drifted south throughout the...

Stocks concluded the first week of 2010 with a round of solid gains, as the major indices logged another advance last Friday. Despite an initial, unenthusiastic reaction to a pre-market employment report, the ever-ready bulls...

A negative knee-jerk reaction to yesterday morning’s employment data caused stocks to slide lower on the open, but the resilient bulls reversed the initial weakness shortly thereafter. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones...

Most of the major indices spent the day chopping around in a narrow, sideways range before closing near unchanged levels. However, notable relative weakness among large-cap tech stocks caused the Nasdaq to lag behind. The...

Stocks followed up the first day of the new year with a session of whippy, indecisive trading that caused the major indices to finish near the flat line and with mixed results. After bobbing and weaving throughout most of the...

Stocks got off to an encouraging start in 2010, as the major indices surged sharply higher and confirmed their recent breakouts. After jumping higher in the morning, the major indices merely drifted sideways throughout the rest...

After spending the holiday-shortened week in a lazy, narrow, sideways range, the main stock market indexes sold off sharply in the final thirty minutes of the last trading session of 2009. Last Thursday, both the S&P 500 and...

Yesterday’s session was a boring repeat of the previous day’s action, except that stocks gapped slightly lower, rather than higher, on the open. Thereafter, the same trendless, low-volatility trading range dominated...

Traders who were expecting uneventful, lazy trading action ahead of the New Year’s Day holiday were certainly not disappointed yesterday. Stocks opened near the flat line, stayed glued to an extremely tight range...