Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

The S&P 500 tumbled 0.8% Tuesday as it undercut both the 50dma and 4,450 support in midday trade. While an afternoon bounce reclaimed 4,450, it wasn’t enough to get the index back above the...

An "Ascending Wedge" is ultimately a bearish reversal pattern, but that doesn't mean that today is the day it breaks. We are at support, and relative strength RSI is pointing lower, but the Dow Jones...

In investing, considering all available factors can be the difference between a loss and a profit. The September Effect is one of those factors that sits in the background noise of market signals....

The inclusion of Blackstone in the S&P 500 index is a positive development for the company The company has been paying dividends regularly for 17 years The fact that the stock is trading at a...

S&P Emini Pre-Open Market Analysis The S&P 500 Futures daily chart is forming a possible 2nd leg trap. The Bulls got a bull breakout with follow-through last week. However, it is a second leg...

Tech giants Apple and Microsoft declined for the month of August, as did the broader S&P 500. Rising interest rates are culprits for the market's decline, although Apple and Microsoft issued...

Energy stocks are in demand thanks to surging crude oil prices, which broke out to their highest level of 2023 on Tuesday. As such, I used the InvestingPro stock screener to search for undervalued...

Some stocks have risen by nearly 24% over the past 5 fiscal years These stocks have managed to effectively double the S&P 500's 12% returns over the same period Can these gems continue to do so...

Stocks are up 18.7% year-to-date, which is good news for portfolios and 401(k)s, but did you know that most of the heavy lifting has been done by a very small number of S&P 500 stocks?You may be...

This entire year, retail as measured by the ETF XRT or the Granny of the Economic Modern Family, has underperformed the SPY and QQQ. Encumbered by higher interest rates, higher oil prices, higher...

Two weeks ago, see here; we found, based on our interpretation of the price action for the Nasdaq 100 using the Elliott Wave Principle (EWP) "the index has so far, only completed three (green) waves...

Mega-cap stocks continue to dominate the market in 2023. The question is, why? After all, many other great companies have arguably much better valuations and fundamentals.Yet, those companies continue...

S&P Emini Pre-Open Market Analysis The Emini formed a strong bull breakout last week. However, the breakout is in the middle of an overall trading range. This increases the odds of the bulls...

The expected return for the Global Market Index (GMI) ticked up in August from the previous month. Today’s revised long-run forecast for this benchmark — a market-value-weighted portfolio...