Author: Jeff Pietsch

My brother John works at the CME Group, where he has assisted in programing a neat new little tool that extracts the probability densities of future rate changes using differences in 30-Day Fed Funds futures contract...

The SPY put in lower lows just above its twenty-day moving average, where it seems to have found some initial support even though internals remain very weak.  Market Rewind reading from last weekend:Week 15 SummaryTrend...

(Click Image to Enlarge/ ETF Rewind Glossary)The major indices put in a mixed week after Friday’s Goldman Sachs hiccup, with the S&P 500 down a fractional -0.2% while the Russell 2000 finished higher a full...

Whoops, just back from an all day trip and noticed that the rotation models page was accidentally replaced by other content. Not sure how long that has been the case, but I have fixed that now, restoring the rotation material....

Most of you are familiar with painting the tape using the direction of the linear regression line-of-best-fit as an indication of trend.  That’s a good start, this analysis ups the ante a notch by measuring how...

Put an overbought market together with options expiry and some juicy news, and this is what we get.  The VIX is higher by plus 22% (VXX +8%… geez) while XLF is down just under four on the Goldman charges.  Maybe...

In spite of this morning’s mini reversal at SPY $121.50, price is now more than 15% above the early February lows.  That’s one heck of a run by any definition.  Internals are weak, but not falling apart...

New daily time-frame stops for intermediate long swings here:IWM — $69.10QQQQ — $48.30SPY — $117.40DIA —$108.50EFA —$56.30[Oh, methodology, heavily modified trailing ATR stops.]Never Investment...

We have a strong trend day in play, taking the SPY and QQQQs just below potential major resistance territory (say $120-122/ $50, respectively). Is there such a thing?  Well, it takes an awfully long-dated chart to come up...

DV_indicators — Fellow blogger and creative indicator maven David Varadi has finally released his new DV_indicators service.To keep the initial price of the suite of indicators affordable, he is offering them as part of a...