Author: Jeff Pietsch

The market is having a difficult time in the face of weak Financial (XLF) and Energy (XLE) sector performances.   While the balance of volume still suggests a range day, right now my other internal indicators are...

Good economic readings combined with strong seasonality have provided us with a nice up move containing nearly all the components for a verified trend-day.  The only lacking component I’d say is an upward sloping A-D...

The VIX has continued its move higher on conflicting Dubai and retail sales reports and interpretations, leaving the Russell 2000 (IWM) down nearly a full percent.  Down Volume is slightly outpacing Up Volume, Cumulative...

(Click Image to Enlarge/ Glossary)In spite of the late week Dubai World induced rout, equities put in a mixed performance depending where you looked, and losses were well contained on balance. For instance, even as the majors...

As you might have guessed last night, the dollar received a big boost on the Dubai news and commodities have been inversely crushed.  But most of the damage had already largely been done, and the bulls have come in to clean...

We are seeing very strong Tick action and healthy Up Volume and Advance – Decline lines at the mid-day (although the AD line slope is easing up). The only small exception is the VIX, which, after threatening to break...

The market is looking weak this morning, more so than price belies.  However, volatility is very low, in fact we are pushing VIX-20 again, but I’ll be wanting to keep a close eye on any changes either way with volume...

Friday’s oversold state was bought heavily on the home sales catalyst, but on this light volume I see many of my long positions being held back at various key intra-day moving averages — a sure sign of Quant Players...

(Click Image to Enlarge/ Glossary)Weekend festivities at a dear friend’s birthday celebration have this post particularly short.  A mixed week for equities left the S&P 500 down -0.2% even as the Dow Jones...

As a congratulatory hat tip to David Varadi on the launch of his new DV Indicators website, this post investigates potential trading edges gained by combining observations of the absolute value of David’s bounded DV...