Neena Mishra: ETFs have gained tremendous popularity in recent years due to several advantages that they offer to the investors, including low costs, tax efficiency and transparency. As of the end of February 2012, assets in US listed ETFs totaled approximately $1.2 trillion, up 14% year-over-year Read more…
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Corey Rosenbloom: I think a lot of traders have been surprised by the persistence of the “Creeper Trend” of early 2012 – along with many investors as well. Read more…
NYSE:SPXU, NYSE:SPY, NYSE:SSO
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Speaking with Financial Sense Newshour’s Jim Puplava on Thursday, Robert Prechter of Elliot Wave Theory fame said he doesn’t think central banks can Read more…
NYSE:FAZ, NYSE:SDS, NYSE:SH, NYSE:SPXU, NYSE:SPY, NYSE:TNA, NYSE:TZA
Michael Snyder: No matter how often the pretty people on television tell us that the U.S. economy is getting better, it isn’t going to change the soul crushing agony that millions of American families are Read more…
NYSE:FAZ, NYSE:SDS, NYSE:SH, NYSE:SPXU, NYSE:SPY, NYSE:TZA
Jeff Nielson: Where did it come from? Where did it go? These are the two principal questions being framed today, after Lord James of Blackheath (a member of the UK House of Lords) unveiled Read more…
NYSE:AGQ, NYSE:GLD, NYSE:SKF, NYSE:SLV, NYSE:SPXU, NYSE:XLF
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…
NYSE:FAZ, NYSE:SDS, NYSE:SKF, NYSE:SPXU, NYSE:TZA, NYSE:XLF
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…
NYSE:DIA, NYSE:SPXU, NYSE:SPY, NYSE:UPRO
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…
NYSE:SPXU, NYSE:SPY, NYSE:UPRO
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
NYSE:SDS, NYSE:SPXU, NYSE:SPY, NYSE:SSO, NYSE:UPRO
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…
NYSE:SDS, NYSE:SPXU, NYSE:SPY, NYSE:SSO, NYSE:UPRO
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…
NYSE:DIA, NYSE:SH, NYSE:SPXU, NYSE:SPY, NYSE:VXX
The Daily Capitalist: Oops! They’ve done it again. Maybe. Here’s the evidence that the Fed aborted a mini-recession with Operation Twist, which in association with enlarging its balance sheet by reinvesting dividends from its mortgage-backed securities portfolio was essentially the QE 3 that Jeff Read more…
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