Author: Jeff Pietsch

That little push off the VWAP on a very nice alignment of a falling VIX, rising Cumulative Tick and Advance – Decline lines all on outpacing Up Volume puts the SPY back above its five- and twenty-day moving averages. While...

Equities put in another august performance last month, but in some ways discussed below, the rally started to feel as if it were slowly running out of gas. For August, the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrials and NASDAQ 100 cash...

Internals are largely positive or at least positive sloping; but the market clearly lacks momentum and we are left sitting here near the daily VWAP. I am again having internet issues and for some reason cannot post images to...

The market has put in a large range expansion, logging two easy on the eyes trades all the way down to this congestion zone into the early August swing-high range (SPY $100-101). Internals are highly negative with rather severe...

Internals are highly negative even though price has thus far found a floor near SPY $102. VWAPs are ruler flat and range is fairly narrow (same same with FXI). On the other hand, so far all these intraday pullbacks have been...

(Click Image to Enlarge/ Glossary)US Equities spent the week going sideways with the S&P 500 (SPY) finishing higher by +0.4%. The largest gainer for the week was Agriculture (DBA +3.2%), while Liquid Fuels suffered a small...

Professional traders are always asking their trade candidates “What have you done for me lately?” The same can be said of their prospective stock and ETF pairings (more background reading here).When it comes to...

Apparently too many successive days higher and other short-term overbought oscillator indications became too tempting not to sell into on the morning gap higher. All internals look fairly negative and cumulative down volume is...

OK, I’m just kidding — but that opening dip did get bought fairly quickly and we have recouped half of the a.m. losses. From an internals perspective, the V-recovery was confirmed with precision. Note the confirmed...