More Pain
Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s cut its outlook on the U.S.’s debt to Negative from Stable today and most are quick to point out that this is well known. Is this really priced in? The market...
Read MoreAuthor: Jeff Pietsch
04.18.11 – Run to 50% Retrace Holds for Now
Price slammed into the fifty percent retrace of its most recent trough to peak run near SPY $129.70. It’s holding for now, but its rare after such a big move to not undercut lows in the days ahead. Intra-day...
Read MoreEEM Leads Pack Down
VIX 18 calls due to expire on Wednesday were $ .30 on Friday and …. hold it…$ 1.25 at today’s open. Long overdue for a bump, The VIX spiked over 20% at the open, which was the best time to close any VIX...
Read MoreThe Market’s Secret Map
Whilst sipping my coffee yesterday morning, as a much needed distraction to rest my enfeebled brain from programming a major update to the venerable DV Indicators for Excel Plugin (* stay tuned), I decided to take a first hand...
Read MoreETF Rewind – Week 15 (04.15.11) Safety Leads
Although it was only a mild down week for the major indices (S&P 500/SPY -0.6%), you can easily see the flight to safety in the out-performance of the “Safety Sectors,â€...
Read MoreSour Apple & Cross Currents
A bounce in oil and poor reactions to Google and Bank of America earnings gave the market a good excuse to sell off, but buyers found reason to buy the oversold market. That and option expiration were probably responsible...
Read MoreVIX or TVIX
Bill Luby over at Vix and More noted the recent volume increase in TVIX the other day. TVIX is the VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX ETN. The nice thing about TVIX is that, being an ETN like VXX, it trades like a...
Read MoreLivermore Active Issues Index for Friday, April 15th
Related posts:Livermore Active Issues Index for Friday, October 15th Livermore Active Issues Index for Friday, April 1st Livermore Active Issues Index for Friday, April 8th Livermore Active Issues Index for Friday, Jan 15th...
Read MoreRanked Trailing Stop Addition 4-15-11
I added 3 more rules for the trailing stop to kick in once 3 different ranking conditions have been met and walla, a 42% gain from the previous version and double the win/loss ratio by quantity. The ranking and...
Read MoreFriday Fun – Sounds Like Silver?
Related posts:Friday Fun – Aloha Friday
Read MoreFree E-Book
TraderPlanet’s Quick Guide to Candlesticks
