Author: Lind-Waldock

This morning’s bleak (as expected) employment report showed an uptick in the unemployment rate to a 16-year high at 7.6 percent. The stock market did not sell off, which the media took to mean the dire economic situation...

Risk-aversion is still dominating investor decisions, and similar to January’s theme, I see a trading affair in February and bottoming action in the stock indexes as well as many commodities. Once this risk-aversion lifts,...

Lind Plus Senior Market Strategist Adam Klopfenstein was quoted in the Australian editon of the Wall Street Journal this week. Read his thoughts on oil here. He was also quoted in an article about the cocoa market this week...

Join Lind Plus Senior Market Strategist Jeff Friedman for a free live webinar at 3:30 p.m. today, “Friedman’s Futures Forecast.” Jeff will take a look back at January’s market action in the futures...

Cattle futures closed lower Tuesday, February 3 after three gaining sessions, and I feel this pullback is a buying opportunity. CME Group cattle futures surged their daily trading limit of 3 cents a pound Monday, February 2,...

I’m very impressed at how the gold market has been holding up as many other commodities saw prices cut in half or more in the past six months. Investors have been flocking to gold as a safe-haven, and I see $1,000 an ounce...

I’ve been watching the sugar market for several weeks now and see a good opportunity setting up. Sugar has been looking bullish from a fundamental perspective for some time, and technical indicators are telling me...

Join us for a free live webinar at 3:30 p.m. CT today, “Top 10 Mistakes Traders Make.” Lind Plus Senior Market Strategist Richard Ilczyszyn will examine common pitfalls, and how avoid them. Richard will also discuss...

Major stock indexes are higher in early trade after President Obama announced plans to set up a governmental “bad bank” to absorb toxic investments, sending banking shares higher. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp....

The February issue of Futures Magazine features an article titled “Options Strategies for an Overshot Market” by Lind Plus Senior Market Strategists Frank D. Cholly and Frank J. Cholly. They discuss three strategies...