Author: Jeff Pietsch

With volatility ramping higher, relative value and pairs trading methodologies offer the potential prospect of higher returns with lower risk than buy and hold. When it comes to the ETF world, there are three ways to play this....

(Click Image to Enlarge/ ETF Rewind Glossary)Last week we doubted that this news cycle had run its course, a week later markets looks extremely oversold after having faced their worst weekly performances since October 2008. In...

It’s a binary world right now. How will markets see this, as supportive, or as a sign of how bad things really are or were feared to become…?WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve late Sunday opened a program...

The VIX is plus 7.5% as of the time of this writing. Markets are down roughly another one-percent, but trade is really running sideways for now and price was caught from its a.m. sell precisely at the S&P’s 200-dma....

Dear Subscriber,So this is what the second largest NYSE volume day looks like? One trillion dollars in market cap was reportedly lost at the peak of today’s down-trade. We will all have war stories to tell about this day...

First Update: Well, I had originally entitled this post “1987 – Back to the Future,” just ask the chat-room gang. But I changed that because I didn’t want to be fear mongering… little did I know!...

The S&P 500 hit $115 and a quarter right above the January highs, but we’ve failed to get convincing support so far even though all eyes are glued there. Next support is all the way down at $113-plus (50% retrace) and...

Global cross currents continue to pull forward. However, the S&P 500 found early support at the SPY $116 level. Price has held above its rising VWAP since then, though it’s hardly aligned with the heavy internals...

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