Author: Richard Hefter

I thought I’d simply talk about this year and what I see for next year instead of the usual newsletter tonight. Nothing has changed with this market, so it’s best to focus on a few other things this evening. This...

The market gapped up this morning and became really overbought on those daily charts, but that didn’t deter this market from grinding higher throughout the day, although some late selling took prices off their highs....

After making new corrective lows in a press towards a possible 6th consecutive down day, the China Shanghai Composite reversed to close higher today. So far today the iShares China Equity Index ETF (FXI) is up 70 cents, or 1.6%,...

The stock market indices had a mixed session today, starting out with a big pop to the upside to new 2010 highs. They then rolled over hard, particularly on the Nasdaq 100, but when the S&P 500 failed to take out support,...

The stock market indices started out the week in narrowly mixed fashion on the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 and on very light volume. The day started out with a gap down and a very sharp sell-off that reached under 2210 on the...

Retail is allowing for the market to hang in there, but we’re still facing overbought conditions along with bad sentiment issues, which is capping the upside for now. The financials are doing well. Goldman Sachs (GS),...

Based on my near-term as well as intermediate-term work, the iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treas Bond ETF (NYSE: TLT) established a very important technical low at 90.47 on Dec 15 off of the 109.34 high from Aug 25. That low was...

This is normally a very bullish time of the year for the stock market. Santa Clause and all that nonsense. It’s a retail trade time where small investors buy, and buy, and buy some more the way they’re trained to do...