Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

As of March 6, 2025, the increase in the price of silver per ounce outpaced that of the price of gold year-to-date, with silver climbing by 11.5% and gold by 9.7% during that time. The price of gold...

It's official. The stock market has gone negative for the year. After starting 2025 with a robust rally, the S&P 500, as tracked by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, is down 1.73%, and the...

Sports betting stocks were plummeting on Monday. Part of it was due to the massive selloff that saw the Dow drop 1,000 points and the Nasdaq fall 4%. The other reason was that Georgia failed to...

The Stock Market Vigilantes have spoken. They don't like tariffs, and they don't like mass firings of federal workers. That's because they don't like stagflation, and they fear that Trump 2.0's focus...

Looking for the positives when there aren't many. The Russell 2000 (IWM) was able to recover some of its intraday losses, finishing on the measured move target derived from the December-January...

It was a pretty rough day in the market. The S&P 500 finished down about 2.7%, but it could have been worse—we were trading as low as 5,560, about a 3.25% decline. The Nasdaq ended the day down...

Out of many lagging indicators of the stock market’s health, Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) signal to investors if the economy is moving towards a bearish or bullish sentiment. Following the...

Professional traders get paid because of one skill and one skill only: the ability to foresee what the world (or the economy, at least) might look like in six to nine months. President Trump recently...

I recently got some reader feedback that made me realize something: When it comes to our favorite income investments—8%+ yielding closed-end funds (CEFs)—there are still a lot of misconceptions out...

Decoding the actions of corporate insiders can provide investors with valuable insights and a potential edge in the stock market. These insiders, with their intimate company knowledge, often provide...

As of early March 2025, investors—and consumers—have once again begun to feel skittish about the possibility of an impending recession. At least two major factors have contributed most recently to...

Through many years of frustration among gold bugs due to the failure of gold stock prices to leverage the gold prices in a positive way, there were very clear reasons for that failure. Reasons why it...

Market Overview: S&P 500 Emini Futures The S&P 500 Emini market formed a weekly Emini bear breakout below the 23-week trading range. The bulls want a reversal from a double bottom bull flag...

STAT The current bull market has been extraordinary. As Bridgewater reports, “Out of any 15-year period to be invested in equities dating back to 1970, the one we’ve just lived through was the best....