Market Overview

The US continues to be the world’s safe haven, as the bull market in US stocks has continued over the past month while euro area stocks have been left behind. S&P500 reached another high...

The Chinese credit data that has just been released was a bit weaker than expected but does suggest some stabilisation in credit growth. The broad credit measure total social finance (TSF), which also...

Thanksgiving day is rapidly approaching, and in anticipation of a more festive meal, it seems the sentiment in the investment universe has improved quite a bit over the last month. You see, major...

-- VIX made its Master Cycle low beneath its mid-Cycle resistance at 14.31.Coming up next is a Primary Wave [3] which may meet or exceed the Head & Shoulders target listed on the chart. SPX stalls...

The upcoming calendar provides a mixed brew of inflation data, Fed news, and continuing world crises. Adding the recent daily focus on energy prices and skepticism about stocks leads to the likely...

We expect the Empire State manufacturing survey index to bounce back to 11.00 in November. The November Empire State manufacturing index likely rebounded to 11.00 after a steep fall to 6.17 last...

Interest rates and the option Greeks play an important role in understanding option trading basics. Rho, not considered a major Greek, measures the change in an option’s price resulting from a...

The same can be said for the exaggerated death of the U.S. economy and stock market. Naysayers have been pounding a consistent stream of fatal economic theories for years as a positive set of broader...

Many sacred cows have been slaughtered these past few years. Beliefs held as obvious, incontrovertible even, were crushed to dust.Take, for example, the notion that the United States was due to...

Gold has taken a tremendous beating in recent weeks and is now tumbling along at four-year lows of $1,160/ounce. Things are so bad that you can actually buy the Central Fund of Canada Ltd...

It seems like a good time to repeat an old stock market adage, one I often like to cite: The tape makes the news. Though stocks were little changed during the week, it was nonetheless another record...

If you can’t beat ‘em…buy ‘em out.  That’s the approach Big Beer is taking in combatting the rise of microbrewing. Anheuser-Busch Inbev OTC...

Last week’s review of the macro market indicators suggested, heading into the week, that the equity markets looked healthy but maybe a bit extended on the short term basis. Elsewhere looked...

As trend traders, when it came to developing our timing strategies, we not only researched the strategies themselves, but the history of the financial markets, too.Same As It Ever Was What we found...