Author: Jeff Pietsch

… we have all been waiting for? I’m a little late to post at the mid-day, but hey, nothing has changed. Equities thumped lower 2-3% early on across the board and have mostly flat-lined ever since — albeit on...

I believe that the graphic excerpt below from the nightly ETF Rewind speaks for itself. A pretty stunning contrast across most equity ETFs by most accounts! (Table excludes bond, currency, commodity and alternative asset classes...

(Click Image to Enlarge/ Glossary)Markets took a breather last week with the S&P500 (SPY) down about forty-one basis points. In fact, only the safety plays, such as Utilities (XLU), Consumer Staples (XLP), and Healthcare...

Internet problems are slowing me down today, but fortunately the market is in an identifiable down-trend-day with heavily negative cumulative tick and advance – decline performance on strong down volume. I still expect to...

Internals are slowly gaining strength at the mid-day after a highly tradable opening range. However, the nascent strength has yet to be much reflected in price action and cumulative tick, while positively sloping, remains net...

Here is one last look at the unbounded DV-2 strategy by CSS Analytics to demonstrate the larger concept of Equity Curve Switching. From the last post (here), I took the two best equity curve results, namely those from the Raw...

Red-lined comparison of August versus June FOMC minutes. Also see past Fed-Day reactions on this nifty little site. [Click to...

Today’s pre-FOMC announcement looks a lot like last June’s here. All internals look very bullish, but obviously anything goes after the announcement. Frank of Trading the Odds kindly graced our (gratis) chat room...

Could it be? The SPY is below its 5 and 10-day moving averages, thought at this point the 20 still seems like asking a lot as a downside target ahead ($97.90). On the ETF Rewind real-time movers list, I see UMM (Major Metro...

After a mixed European/ Asian overnight trade, US markets have moved down between 50 and 100 bps. Relative action in the Semi’s (SMH), Discretionaries (XLP), and Emerging Markets (EEM) suggest a little risk being taken off...