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Michael Snyder: How is the U.S. economy doing in 2012? Unfortunately, it is not doing nearly as well as the mainstream media would have you believe. Yes, things have stabilized for the moment but this Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: While there are plenty of methods to assess the volatility environment of a market, one of the simplest tactics is to measure the daily range. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Last year was riddled with volatility across the board as European debt woes took center stage. Despite all of the uncertainty spilling over from the debt burdened currency bloc, U.S. stocks managed to end the year far better than their developed and emerging market counterparts. Read more…
John Townsend: Last April I wrote an article titled Fibonacci Gold and to tell you the truth, I have always been very proud of that analysis and particularly so regarding the beauty and elegance of the Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: With the S&P 500 interacting with another key overhead price level, let’s take a moment to pull the perspective back to update the long-term (from 2007’s peak) Fibonacci “Bull Market” Retracement Grid. Read more…
Jeff Harding: There is a lot of good news to buoy the markets and give cheer to the public. We hear that new jobless claims are down another 15,000 to 358,000, the ninth week of declines out of the last ten, finally breaking below the 400,000 mark. A reduction in unemployment is a very positive sign Read more…
Jeff Harding: There is a lot of good news to buoy the markets and give cheer to the public. We hear that new jobless claims are down another 15,000 to 358,000, the ninth week of declines out of the last ten, finally breaking below the 400,000 mark. A reduction in unemployment is a very positive sign and Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: I wanted to highlight one of my favorite intraday trading “combo” set-ups that occurred twice on February 13th. It’s the “Retracement plus Dual Divergence” set-up that develops on all timeframes. Read more…
Sy Harding: Most investors are aware of the market’s various seasonal patterns. In the Four-Year Presidential Cycle the market has a strong tendency to be positive in the last two years of each Read more…
Michael Snyder: Do you want to see what a 21st century economic depression looks like? Just look at Greece. Once upon a time, the Greek economy was thriving, the Greek government was borrowing Read more…
Michael Snyder: If the global economy is not heading for a recession, then why is global shipping slowing down so dramatically? Many economists believe that measures of global shipping such as the Baltic Dry Index are leading economic indicators. In other words, they change before the overall Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: 2012 may turn out to be the year that, when it comes to a close, Americans will feel like they were under the influence of some kind of psychedelic drug. Read more…
Chris Vermeulen: Friday morning traders and market participants awaited the key January employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The reaction to the supposedly wonderful report was a surge in the S&P 500 E-Mini futures contracts as well as several other key equity index futures. Read more…
Toby Connor: Friday’s big rally on the better than expected employment report has now generated the kind of euphoria that often creates intermediate degree tops. This coming week will be the 18th Read more…
Sy Harding: I’ve been writing some quite optimistic and positive columns since October, quite a contrast to the negativism I was exuding last April in explaining why I expected a significant market Read more…
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