The market’s major equity indices were all up a little more than 0.6% yesterday, which was off mid-day highs, but positive because the market shrugged off poor economic news from …
Read More Fundamentally oriented investors tend to think that quants, like blondes, have all the fun. As ConvergEx’s Nick Colas notes - it all looks like easy money – scalping trades with lightning fast computers, …
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There was a lot of back and forth around key resistance today. I suspect that the wiseguys are waiting for some additional punters to take positions before they flip the …
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After Monday’s gains it wasn’t such a surprise to see small losses today. It didn’t change a whole lot and buyers can probably find some value for the next up …
Read More In the first five weeks of this year, investors bought $22.0 billion worth of long-term stock mutual funds. (Source: Investment Company Institute, February 12, 2014.) But as investors poured money …
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Well that escalated quickly. It seems the ouster of Yanukovych, heralded by so many in the West as a positive, has done nothing to quell the fear of further economic …
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Here is a perfect example showing how 3x leveraged ETF funds can lose value over a short period of time while the underlying investment is deep in our favor by 5% and …
Read More Here is a chart that has caused me little worry since it was originally highlighted in NFTRH and bought (and traded a few times) late last year, the Global X …
Read More With Friday’s options expirations behind us and no major economic news, aside from the Chicago Fed’s rather academic National Activity Index, the S&P 500 was poised to set a new high. …
Read More When Debt Contracts … The Dow fell 26 points on Friday. Gold rose a few bucks. Nothing important. After a good fright two weeks ago, investors in US stocks are comfortable again. …
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