Author: Jeff Pietsch

Here’s the pure Lazy Man portfolio with SPY as the focus ETF.  EEM has been the hands down leader for the past 2 weeks followed by SPY although today we saw XLB break to the upside while both EEM and SPY closed...

Internals are positively sloped, although price is finding mid-day resistance at floor trader pivot R1. Related posts:02.03.11 – Resistance at Pivot 03.11.11 – Rebound to Pivot 03.21.11 – Gap to Major...

It was a good consolidation day for the bulls to work off the overbought condition. Volume was light and breadth slightly positive.  News is hitting after hours that Texas Instruments is buying National Semiconductor. ...

Continuing the development of this swing strategy, I added another alternation filter that enters the trade at a certain “distance” between the high and the upper Standard Error Band. This is after taking a dozen...

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I’m beginning to see some negative momentum divergences in price action.  Most internals are otherwise fairly flat along with price, which is finding resistance at the VWAP.  Also, you have undoubtedly noted the...

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Markets pushed through various potential resistance zones last week to challenge yearly highs.  This action left the S&P 500 (SPY) higher +1.4% and Emerging Markets (EEM) up a whopping +4.5%.  The...

Most quantitative traders and investors love the concept of momentum or relative strength based investing. The reasons are obvious: 1) it makes intuitive sense that more money is made switching between stocks that have the...