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Chris Ciovacco: Tech stocks have been laggards in recent weeks, which has been a little concerning for the current rally despite the numerous bullish signals we outlined on July 16. Earnings may provide a needed push for tech stocks. From Bloomberg: Read more…
Thomas Carreno: Here we are in the midst of the slow summer trading season and the market continues to try to press higher. So it would appear that the market still has a chance to press higher but now in the short to intermediate term there are some patterns Read more…
In an uneventful session, stocks moved modestly lower on Monday, on slightly higher trade. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P MidCap 400 and the small-cap Russell 2000 all closed down 0.3%. The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 both shed 0.2%. Read more…
Eric Dutram: The second quarter was, despite the overall market turmoil, a pretty solid one for the broad ETF industry. A handful of new funds hit the markets Read more…
Andy Crowder: I recently came across an article from a prominent options trader that truly disappointed me. The gentleman brought up the question as to whether or not credit spreads were a viable options strategy. For some, credit spreads are not a viable strategy Read more…
Stocks reversed dramatically in the final hour of trading yesterday, to end the session mixed. Trade was brisk across the board. All of the major indices were down by 1.2% or more intraday, before the market staged its impressive comeback. The S&P MidCap 400 showed Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: With Thursday developing into another big news day, let’s take a quick morning check on current daily resistance (or key) price levels and what to watch from here (upper and lower short-term targets) in the US Equity Markets. Read more…
Overnight PMI reports continue to signal slowing growth, as commodity prices declined to the lowest levels since November 2010. The FOMC is now out Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: US Stock Market Indexes have rallied into the initial resistance level accordingly, and now appear poised to break through these levels with the favorable outcome in the Greek election over the weekend. Read more…
High-frequency trading (HFT) is a market-skewing, artificial form of speculation that places undo pressure on already fragile markets, which, by doing so, increases the risk of another flash crash or something much worse. HFT accounts for over 50% of all trading volumes, further distancing Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: The markets have numerous unanswered questions to digest: Read more…
Thomas Carreno: Today’s action in the stock market was absolutely huge. Today’s action was a clear demonstration of the power of the bullish divergence. This was a shorter term bullish divergence of the most powerful variety and led to enormous Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: Following up from last week’s post on “Triple Stock Index Key Levels,” let’s take a quick mid-week update on what’s happened and what support levels continue to be key focal points in the “Big Three” US Stock Market Indexes. Read more…
Thomas Carreno: The short term technical analysis of the S&P 500 Index (INDEXSP:.INX) suggests that any trading and closing prices at or higher than 1293 Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: Conducting our weekend Europe Google searches for the latest news yielded articles with a very familiar and vague tone about the “progress” across the pond. The excerpt below from a Reuters article represents a good example: Read more…
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