Market Perspective 12/12/12
On the 12th day of the 12th month of the 12th year of this century there are 12 trading days left. I thought it would be interesting to see where…
Weekly Thoughts
As earnings go, this week will be key for clues as to the overall season. So far earnings season hasn't been that great for the bulls. Two events on the…
Attitrade Index Update
For those of you that are regular readers of my blog you are probably familiar with the "home cooked" index I used to call the secret sauce. Nothing special, just…
Short-term Breadth Update
In case you were purposefully not watching the market today... there was a bit of a train wreck. Looking at the futures after hours and seeing the continuation of downside…
Short-Term Breadth
Today's price action saw the small caps ($IWM) and the large caps ($SPY) diverge, especially as the day wore on. I've always associated the small caps as the riskier play…
VWAPs Of Index ETFs
The Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) is just an indicator, nothing more. It's not a holy grail, it's not a signal to buy/sell, it's imply the average price over a…
October’s historic volatility proves itself yet again
Earnings continue to come in better than expected, but the market refuses to move higher so it may be safe to assume, at this point, that the proverbial bar was…
Pivotal Week Ahead
Another week, another loss for the major indices. The Dow finished the week down -5.3%, the Nasdaq lost another -8.7% and the S&P 500 sank another -8.4%. The big loser…
Election Week
What a great week for the major indices as they all posted double digit gains. In the week prior to the presidential election we saw an impressive bounce (or rally)…
Weekly Wrap
Not the best of weeks for the equities, but with Friday’s limit down action in the futures it could have been much worse. The major indices were DJIA lost 5.3%,…