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Another interesting day on the markets. The oil situation certainly hit the market hard this morning as it would appear basically, there is a lot of oil around. So that means soft prices for some time to come. Lots of talking heads today on CNBC discusses oil and most...
The first day of March has historically been somewhat mixed but with a stronger percentage of up days than down. Over the last 8 years the Dow has been down 5 of those years to start off March. The worst start ever was 2009 when it fell 4.2% as the bear market came to...
One of the most important aspects of investing is studying the overall market direction. While pundits talk about how people can just buy a stock and hold it and eventually sell it for a big gain, the reality is quite different. Buying stocks on a whim and hoping it...
The outlook for Tuesday for stocks was basically a repeat of Monday. But note how there was no signals that the market would fall back hard on Tuesday. In other words, the signals were for weakness, with a slight bias lower. Looking at the SPX intraday below,...
Much of the move higher on Thursday was caused by the rally back up in oil. Commodities are like stocks and can easily bounce when sold off. We may be seeing exactly that, a bounce. It's important to realize that and stay cautious. XLF ETF I mentioned last week about...
The market direction on Friday was filled with high volatility and whipsaws. While analysts debated the reasons for the markets being unable to sustain recent rallies, there is no doubt in my opinion that stocks are in trouble. While in general stocks are still...
With the market direction trending at new highs the VIX Index has fallen back below $12.00. In my market direction outlook and investing strategy notes last week I mentioned that I would be starting to buy calls on the VIX Index for Feb 18 expiry at the $14 call...
Here are my morning investing strategy notes before the markets open for Monday Sept 8 2014. Friday turned positive by 11:00 AM as many investors saw the weaker than expected unemployment report as a possible reason for the Federal Reserve to delay raising interest...
Here are my morning investing strategy notes before the markets open for Friday Sept 5 2014. The heatmap yesterday was showing that stocks in general are starting to give back recent gains. If you select the heatmap below to enlarge it you can see that there was a lot...
Here are my morning investing strategy notes before the markets open for Wednesday September 3 2014. On Tuesday investors were caught off guard on the ISM Report which showed the strongest August in 10 years. Almost always these types of readings eventually see the...