Author: Michael Kahn

No, not a bull market where every monkey with a dart can make money. Rather, it is the sparring between bulls and bears. Some are calling for a continuation to S&P 1000 before the bear market reasserts itself. Others say...

Just some quick stats today using two-day old data (I hate having to manually update a database)101 of 155 Industry Monitors industry groups are above their 50-day averages.8 were above their 200-day averages591 of 4962 common...

After the pain inflicted on my psyche today with the Dow up 200, down 100 and then up 89 at the close I am thinking a slogan like “no brain, no pain” would be a better mantra.It is not the wide swings that got me. It...

I was caught between a rock and a hard place while writing today’s column on the bond market. On the one hand, how can we not have inflation given the 25 hour per day printing of money by the government. But on the other...

Here is a chart and some comments from this morning’s Quick Takes Pro newsletter.NYSE Composite – This is what we think the market will look like over the next near. We can see the possibility of a...

Sorry for not posting since Monday but sometimes real life gets in the way.Anyway, today’s post title is probably the most annoying catch phrase since yada yada yada – not that there’s anything wrong with that....

If I can remember, whenever I post a followup to my current column on Barron’s Online I’ll use this title – The Cutting Room Floor. Here is today’s.Some will wonder why I did not use the XLF financial...

….and I feel fine.——REMFor those of you not getting the reference, that’s a song by the group REM.The end of the world as we know it means that the investing landscape has changed forever. Make that...

So far, so good for the bear market rally. There were so many doubters out there boldly declaring that the were going to short the market Tuesday that the market had to go higher just to knock them down a few pegs. I wonder how...

While I did enjoy the movie of the same name, mostly because I am a wine snob in training, this post is about the healing range in the stock market that may have transitioned to the calmer, flat part. I will say it everywhere...