Author: Jeff Pietsch

 Thanks to Bill Luby of VIX & More for pointing out in our trading room today that the VIX has only risen 30% or more 13 other times over the last twenty years or so.  The natural question — what has happened...

With Goldman Sachs on the Hill and Portugal in the limelight, the market got its pre-Fed reason to sell  overbought conditions.  Will we get a Fed-day reversal tomorrow? That would be the recent norm, but that question...

In addition to your prodigious quality postings along an amazingly broad spectrum of relevant topic areas at TraderFeed, you were part of the inspiration for this blog, as I know you were to many others.  While I’m...

(Click Image to Enlarge/ ETF Rewind Glossary)The market’s eighth unabated weekly run higher left the S&P 500 up +2.1%, while the Russell 2000 advanced an even stronger +3.7%.  Many of the tracked indices are...

In addition to your prodigious quality postings along an amazingly broad spectrum of relevant topic areas at TraderFeed, you were part of the inspiration for this blog, as I know you were to many others.  While I’m...

We have had a very noisy range trade with a slight negative tilt in-spite of the run to prior highs.  Let the banal double top talk begin?  I’m not expecting any big moves going into the weekend either...

The twenty-day moving average held firm for its second test by the SPY in a week’s time.  Internals are pulling hard for a potential afternoon reversal, although the QQQQ’s have their falling five-day moving...

Once again, the S&P has managed to come back strong off it’s five day moving average (magenta dashed line).  It probably helped that S1 (cyan line) was right there near SPY $120.45.  Internals are still net...

Our gap higher held firm at the rising five-day moving average.  Internals are very strong, though I’ll grant that tick is beginning to look a little thin going into the final hours of trade.  Apologies for the...