Author: Scott Redler

By: Zev SpiroLast week, a candlestick pattern was outlined in SPY, displaying signs of vulnerability, with confirmation on Thursday. Friday’s sell-off touched down on the gap, the first support level highlighted, and...

US stock futures point to a slightly higher open Monday morning despite another 6.6 magnitude earthquake only about 50 miles from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The market was bent but not broken on Thursday after...

The week started out with quiet, tight range-bound trading, but the action has loosened up in the last two days following another large earthquake in Japan. The market was able to pare much of yesterday’s...

I would keep the small tier energy stocks on the radar like Blue Dolphin Energy Company (BDCO), Lucas Energy, Inc. (LEI), and Royale Energy, Inc. (ROYL). BDCO is the closest to 52-week highs and looks strong. I’ve been in...

Don’t forget about new issues! IntraLinks Holdings, Inc. (IL), which was issued last September, is just starting to break out of an upper consolidtaion area and looks poised to make new 52-week highs. IntraLinks is a...

US stock futures are set for a higher open this morning as investors shrug off the latest earthquake in Japan. Yesterday, news of another substantial quake shook Tokyo and re-introduced fear back into a complacent market, but...

The market started the day strong Thursday, but another major earthquake in Japan, this one measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale, sent the market plummeting in the late morning as traders scrambled to gather more information. The...

Should I, or shouldn’t I? Sometimes that’s not the question. The question should be: how much? Many traders/investors freeze up when their ‘alerts’ go off- even when they had gone through the work of identifying a stock and the...

The markets were rattled late morning Thursday after reports that another substantial earthquake had rocked Japan’s Northeast region. The 7.1-magnitude quake was large, but considerably smaller on the Richter scale, which...

By: Zev SpiroWhile the big picture for the major indices still appears healthy, the markets feel slightly heavy at these levels with many individual names experiencing selling yesterday. A minor and healthy pull back in the...