Author: mysterytrader@traderplanet.com

Earnings warnings from Boston Scientific and KB Home might help sustain the new downside trend direction. Therefore, I am holding shorts and selling more stock indexes short on minor price strength. The economy now looks weaker...

The Federal Reserve left the fed funds rate unchanged at 5.25%, as generally expected. The accompanying policy directive said moderation in economic growth appears to be continuing, partly reflecting a soft housing market. The...

of futures and options probably have run their course. I am looking for a return to choppy, two-way stock price action over the next several days. The same may apply to other markets as well. Commodities might be oversold....

Clear price breakdowns in oil and gold… Stocks and bonds now taking encouragement from such signs of falling inflation… I am just going to quick scalp for small gains, both ways, for the rest of this week…...

Clear price breakdowns in oil and gold…stocks and bonds also looking vulnerable to price decline…talk of recession… Does it really make sense that everything should go down at once? If you answered this...

News this morning that unit labor costs rose at a larger than expected 4.9% rate might be enough to end the recent unconvincing upward price drift on very light volume. I think that the downside risks loom much larger than any...

Crude oil prices fell more than 1% to $69 on news that supplies of crude oil, gasoline, and distillate all rose in the latest week, contrary to expectations for a decline. Also, a slightly smaller than expected upward revision...

Oil is down on news that the latest tropical storm will miss the Gulf of Mexico energy installations. Stocks and bonds are having a relief rally. This is not the last of the storms, however, and there are plenty of other...

Today at 10 a.m. EDT, the markets may react to any hints given by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke when he speaks about global economic integration at the Federal Reserve annual symposium in Jackson Hole. Ben has some history of saying...

“Time is working against those who would like to see this resolution applied…We are now in the most sensitive and explosive position.” — Tzipi Livni, Israel’s foreign minister. A British think tank...