Stocks

As a long-term stock trader, there’s one development in the stock market that takes me, and many others, to our collective knees. It’s a Volatility Index ($VIX) that rises past 20. There’s never been a…

On a day when the S&P 500 ($SPX) drops over 200 points at the open, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU) and Nasdaq Composite ($COMPQ) drop more than 1,000 points, looking at your portfolio…

The market is dropping perilously right now and so it is time to review Bear Market Rules. Today Erin and Carl share their rules for trading during a bear market move. We aren’t officially in…

Good morning and welcome to this week’s Flight Path. Equities could not hold onto “Go” colors any longer and we saw a strong purple “NoGo” bar as the trend changed on the last bar of…

In the classroom we would have students alter their view of charts they were evaluating to gain fresh perspective and possibly enhance their analysis. Students often had Ah-Ha moments after freshening their interpretation of a…

The previous week turned out quite volatile for the markets as they not only marked a fresh lifetime high but also faced corrective pressure as well towards the end of the week. The markets maintained…

The dog days of summer are here. And the stock market gives us a brutal reminder of this. The first trading day of August began on a very pessimistic note. Thursday’s weak manufacturing data spooked…

And then ….. all of a sudden….. things are heating up. Lots of (downside) market action in the past week. Let’s see what sector rotation and RRGs can tell us. The RRG at the top…

The broad market and the group are big drivers for stock performance. Recently, the Nasdaq 100 ETF (QQQ) led the market lower with sizable declines over the last five weeks. Weakness in QQQ weighed on…

In July alone, the iShares Russell 2000 ETF jumped upwards of 12%, outpacing the S&P 500, before retracing half that distance. Historically, the Russell (in general) hasn’t done as well as other major indexes, mainly…