Author: Richard Hefter

Let’s take an updated look at the bond market via the iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treas Bond ETF (NYSE: TLT). After all of the fireworks from Wed’s ADP forecast for additions to payrolls of nearly 300,000 into this...

The enclosed hourly chart on the Proshares Ultrashort Oil & Gas ETF (NYSE: DUG) represents what I think is the final downleg of the larger bear phase from the July 2010 high at 78.27 to the Jan 3 low of 36.47. If 36.47...

I can only imagine the frustration being felt by the bears who simply can not catch a break at this moment in time. Believe me, their time will come in Q1 for a nasty selling episode. For now, though, all they know is that the...

The stock market indices started out with a negative move in the early morning as futures were low and the indices gapped down, reaching their low for the day. However, the indices turned right around and rallied sharply, aided...

The stock market indices gapped up and then slid all morning until midday when they hit their session lows. In the afternoon they rallied back to bring the indices back into a mixed position. Net on the day, the Dow was up 20.43...

Happy New Year!  The stock market indices started out the year with a bang with a big gap up, ran sharply higher in the morning, reached their highs just before noon at around the 2268 area on the Nasdaq 100 and the 1276...

This is clearly the case, as so many folks marched on to those business stations predicted, that once the volume came back somewhat on the first day of the new year, things would fall hard based on overbought daily index charts...