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Tuesday’s trading session saw a familiar scenario play out. The mass media has been broadcasting this round of Federal Reserve action in the form of Quantitative Easing (dubbed QE2) as being the Read more…
The Dow has given a bullish signal known as the “Golden Cross” on the 1st of October. The last time this happened was in June of 2009, which was followed by a 3000-point gain in the months that Read more…
Monday saw markets down with the NASDAQ leading the way lower by over 1%. Whether this is attributed to profit-taking, economic uncertainty or the alignment of the planets is irrelevant. Read more…
This week could prove to be interesting for investors as we have the Fed on tap, the earnings season kickoff and we end with the non-farm-payrolls on Friday. What more can you ask for? This is the Read more…
Gold has hit record highs nearly every day for the past ten days and has now breached $1300 per ounce. I figured this was going to happen sooner or later, so I held of on anything talking about Read more…
I was watching last week’s action in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:SPY) very closely as we had reached a critical resistance level. There were a number of technical indicators that were showing Read more…
It feels like a lot of investors have been holding their breath over the past couple of days, as the market indexes have stalled at key resistance. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:SPY) is right back up Read more…
The big fund managers, in all their infinite wisdom, seem to be liking Gold right now. The SPDR Gold Trust ETF (NYSE:GLD) spiked about 2% on Tuesday on big volume. 26.5 million shares traded Read more…
Here we go again! Investors are feeling optimistic about every little smidgen of good news (or even “less bad” news) they hear from the mass financial media machine. People seem torn between when Read more…
It’s hard to ignore the media coverage on global markets these days – I find myself avoiding CNBC during market hours more and more just to keep my focus where it needs to be. Across all major Read more…
Gold has been performing quite well since coming off it’s late July lows, up by over 5.5%. The good news is that it seems like it could go higher based on technical analysis. Read more…
Monday’s trading session was quite uneventful and could barely distract me from watching my grass growing. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones indexes closed at a whopping 0.1% plus and minus Read more…
Looks like I have been lucky with my timing lately. I called the most recent bottom in the markets , I called the top most recent top in oil on Tuesday the 3rd of August and I called the Read more…
I love ETFs. They let you trade just about everything within the comfort of an equity trading environment. While I prefer to trade currencies and commodities in their “natural habitats” Read more…
The Dow Jones Industrial Index (DJIA) broke it’s four-day winning streak on Wednesday. Durable goods orders were down which surprised many (which surprises me because I seem to expect the Read more…
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