Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

The stock market saw some action this week. On Tuesday the Dow Jones moved over 3% intraday, but closed only -1.74% from Monday’s closing price, so I didn’t count Tuesday as a day of...

Monthly S&P 500 Emini futures candlestick chart: April is buy signal bar in bull flag The monthly S&P 500 Emini futures candlestick chart is forming a bull reversal bar for April with one...

The S&P 500 fell and rose this past week, ending Friday up 0.1% from Thursday and virtually unchanged from this time last week. The index is down 0.96% YTD. The U.S. Treasury puts the closing...

Index Futures Net Changes and Settlements:Foreign Markets, Fair Value and Volume: In Asia 11 out of 11 markets closed higher: Shanghai Comp +0.23%, Hang Seng +0.91%, Nikkei +0.66% In Europe 10 out...

Fast-food titan McDonald's Corporation (NYSE:MCD) is slated to report earnings before the opening bell on Monday. While the shares of the blue chip have struggled in 2018, the stock could be sending...

We have seen many arguments from Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) bulls and bears over the years – but this is the first time we have seen a bull turned bear on the stock (to my knowledge). Additionally, the...

In a wide-ranging swing, VIX rallied above Intermediate-term support/resistance at 17.07 and Short-term support/resistance at 18.26 before closing beneath both levels. Re-crossing the...

Is a bear market showing up? Certainly some qualities of a bear have started to arrive. The action on Tuesday April 24 may have indicated we are ready to shift gears. After a very long period of...

When our covered call positions end up moving deep in-the-money, we are faced with the decision to close as our maximum profit has been realized or take no action and allow assignment. In October...

Last week’s review of the macro market indicators noted April options expiration was in the rearview mirror as the markets headed into the last full week of April trading. Here in Northeast...

Hoary old market maxim: “As goes January, so goes the year.” Not so far it hasn’t! And in fact the most likely reason this saying ever took hold is because the market goes up about...

MAKE OR BREAKApple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is scheduled to report earnings on Tuesday (5/1) after hours - I am certainly interested in how the investors and traders are going to react as the stock is now...

Those that follow my personal account on Twitter will be familiar with my weekly S&P 500 #ChartStorm in which I pick out 10 charts on the S&P 500 to tweet. Typically I'll pick a couple of...

When you get towards the end of a market cycle a couple of things start to happen. Valuations increase, sentiment becomes extremely optimistic, expectations grow ever higher, and leveraged up...