Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

CF Industries Holdings, Inc.’s (NYSE:CF) fully-owned subsidiary CF Industries, Inc. has redeemed all of the $800 million outstanding principal amount of its 6.875% senior notes due May 2018. ...

Electric utility firm The Southern Company (NYSE:SO) finally reached a settlement with the Mississippi Public Utilities Staff regarding the rate issue concerning the controversial Kemper Project....

Nucor Corporation (NYSE:NUE) declared that its board has increased the regular quarterly cash dividend on Nucor's common stock to 38 cents. The revised dividend reflects a roughly 0.7% increase from...

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:IBKR) Electronic Brokerage segment reported a year-over-year increase in Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs) for November 2017. The segment deals in...

The economic calendar is another big one, with an emphasis on the employment situation. Despite this, everyone will be scrambling to analyze the tax cut legislation. I expect many to be asking:What do...

VIX challenged its mid-Cycle resistance at 14.54 this week, breaking out above its November 15 high at 14.51.It has since made a 62% retracement.A further breakout above the Ending Diagonal trendlne...

DOW INDUSTRIAL FACTOIDS FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Another record close, its 63rd this year Largest one-day point gain since Nov. 7, 2016 Largest one-day percentage gain since March 1 24 of the...

Markets: It was a mixed week for the market, with 3 out of 4 indexes gaining, but the Tech-heavy NASDAQ losing ground. However, all 4 indexes hit new all-time highs, spurred on by Tax cut hopes and...

In this post we want to share two interesting sets of data that we find are interesting and add to the case of a stock market top is highly likely to take place in 2018. Be sure to read Part I...

Position management is one of the 3 required skills needed for covered call writing and put-selling. When share price gaps up or down there is a strong possibility that an exit strategy opportunity...

Last Friday was just a 'ho hum' day, right? The Dow Jones Industrial Average had their first weak session, closing down about 45 points or so. Boring day, volatility ticked up to 14%. You know I'm...

Last week’s review of the macro market indicators noted with Thanksgiving behind and the holiday season in full swing, it usually means light trading for equity markets. But light or not,...

Ulta Beauty Inc (NASDAQ:ULTA) Ulta beauty, reported their quarterly earnings on Thursday November 30, 2017 after the market closed for trading. However, unlike previous quarterly announcements where...

Morning Notes US Futures and European stocks are drifting lower this morning in early trading. European stocks are being pulled lower by a drop in technology stocks. US Futures are lower in part to a...