Author: Jeff Pierce

I signed up for Twitter a few months ago when there was quite a buzz about surrounding it. I didn’t really see the point of telling people what I was doing in 140 characters or less, but I thought I’d give it a try and see if I...

No doubt about the strength of the move today despite the closing minutes fade. This is the 2nd day in 2 weeks that we’ve had one of these such 90%+ upside days. One thing I just noticed about all the charts I’ve looked at...

I was short going into the close on Friday and added to the few positions that I held over late in the day. Needless to say my day didn’t go well and it would have been worse if I hadn’t hedged my whole portfolio with a IWM long...

Fear and Greed Those images of soup lines and other references to the depression era have terribly distorted the perceptions of the man-in-the-street. I wonder how many people have any sort of realistic outlook of what is likely...

I was listening to Financial News Hour and was shocked to hear the following YTD declines, not measuring from the highs earlier this year. DJIA40% SPX46% NAS48% These numbers would have been a lot worse had the market not...

Here is some thought provoking reading that has inspired a few sequels this weekend. It started with the following from Fortune’s Andy Serwer and what I get out of this first article is something I learned from Anthony Robbins...

I updated the .Beta watchlist over the weekend with as many bullish charts that I could find. All of them are ultra bearish ETF’s with the exception of $TLT and $VXV. Beta Watchlist Courtesy of MMachado