Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

The S&P 500 opened Friday near its Thursday close and began to climb around 2pm. The index closed the day over 2500, another all-time high and a 0.18% gain from Thursday. The index is up 11.68%...

Yesterday, after showing weakness late in the Globex session, the S&P 500 futures (ESZ17:CME) opened the regular cash session at 2490.75, down 4.25 handles. The ES made a low of 2489.00 fifteen...

Oracle Corporation (NYSE: NYSE:ORCL) After Oracle reported their earnings on Thursday September 14, 2017 once the market closed at 4pm EDT, shares initially jumped a little over +$1.00 per share as...

United Natural Foods Inc (NASDAQ:UNFI) United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI), a natural, organic, and specialty foods and non-food products company yesterday reported their fiscal fourth quarter 2017...

Our equity/bond model - This long term reliable investing model provides investors with simple decision making in the markets:When the model favors stocks, investors should overweigh in equities for...

Monthly S&P500 Emini futures candlestick chart: Parabolic wedge buy climax Every bar for the past 10 months on the monthly S&P500 Emini futures candlestick chart has a low above the low of the...

The bulk of U.S. stock gains in this long-running bull market are due to one variable: the expansion of the price-to-earnings ratio.Earnings for S&P 500 companies have stagnated since 2014. Stock...

We have a light calendar for economic data. The week’s focus will be the FOMC policy announcement on Wednesday. Given the resilience of the market rally in the face of various natural and human...

It seems a day does not go by where various strategists lament the market's valuation and lack of any significant pullback in over a year and a half. Not only are the valuations of a number of equity...

As I have learned and taught about technical analysis over the years, it is certainly not a sophisticated science. If you have a set of eyes, can see recognizable patterns that repeat over and over...

Last week, I said you should get ready for a rally. This week my core market health indicators are telling us to get ready for a breakout above 2500 on the S&P 500 Index. Most of them improved and...

OCTOBER: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The other are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February, Mark...

Since it turns out that the woman in charge of information security at Equifax (NYSE:EFX) was a music major with no technology background…………….the company has had...

The S&P 500 Index (SPX) broke out on Monday to set a new all-time high, but that was only the beginning of a very bullish week for stocks. SPX closed today at $2500, the fourth new all-time high...