Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

As the Dow Jones Index continues to drop like a rock, the worst is yet to come. Today, investors once again plowed into the markets because they are following the Mainstream Financial advice of BUYING...

Emini tradable bottom in developing 2 to 3 month trading range Emini weekend update: February 10, 2018Monthly S&P500 Emini futures candlestick chart: Big, but brief reversal The monthly...

Down markets, like up markets, are both dazzling and delightful. The shock and awe of near back-to-back 1,000 point Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) freefalls are, indeed, spectacular. There are...

VIX Non-Commercial Speculator Positions: Large volatility speculators sharply turned around in their net positioning in the VIX futures markets this week as the markets underwent a sharp selloff,...

The TSX stocks on our list have a large number of short positions, especially relative to their sizeSmallCapPower | February 9, 2018: TSX Markets publishes a list of the most shorted TSX stocks every...

US benchmark share indices falling into correction territory (down over 10% from record highs) has ignited concern the bull market has ended. There has been a spike in volatility, which has resulted...

Index Futures Net Changes and Settlements:Foreign Markets, Fair Value and Volume: In Asia 11 out of 11 markets closed lower: Shanghai Comp -4.02%, Hang Seng -3.10%, Nikkei -2.32% In Europe 12 out of...

One of the common mistakes made by covered call writers and put-sellers is to make investment decisions based primarily on the highest premium returns. Certainly, we all want to generate the highest...

With all due respect to CNBC, we are going to try and put our arms around the current turmoil that is suffocating markets and players. Indeed, the recent downdraft has been uncomfortable at best and...

I bought puts where that red arrow is. I think we’re done now. On an unrelated note, I’ve been frantically lightening up my shorts – – ZH had an excellent article this morning...

Market declines and under performance can create opportunities. The table below looks at performance of the S&P 500 sectors over the past 90-days. As you can see the S&P has pretty much gone...

In June of 2016, the Power of the Pattern shared the chart below, reflecting that the Dow was using old mega phone resistance as new support. The purpose of the blog post was to show this pattern and...

Given the market action this week, I wondered if street analysts would pull in their bullishness on forward S&P 500 estimates and that absolutely didn’t happen.Here is the Thomson Reuters...

This week has been a truly seminal one, and difficult to put into words the price action we have seen. Dramatic hardly does it justice, and yet this is the best I can do. Such events are rare, and it...