Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

There has been a massive storm of political rain that has blanketed the media airwaves and internet last month, however, the stock market ignored the deluge of headlines and focused on more important...

After a very dismal Jobs Report, ES (Emini S&P 500) has traded in a 10-point range, 70% of which has been above unchanged!Yawn... Another example of bad news is good news... ES has pivoted off of...

The S&P 500 opened Friday just above Thursday's close and rose for most of the day despite a mediocre jobs report for May. It closed with a 0.37% daily and a 0.96% weekly gain. The index is at...

Last week’s review of the macro market indicators saw that heading into the unofficial beginning of summer equities looked strong. Elsewhere looked for gold (GLD (NYSE:GLD)) to consolidate with...

After the news-heavy calendar last week, there are few market-moving economic reports in the week ahead. It is also the quiet period for the Fed. How will the punditry fill those empty minutes?Last...

The S&P 500 futures (ESM17:CME) closed firm on Wednesday, then pulled back slightly on the overnight Globex session, before trading back up to the 2414.50 level. The ES opened the day session at...

Long Calpine Corporation (NYSE:CPN) Long Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ:CY) Short Encana Corporation (NYSE:ECA) Original post

Since Slope Of Hope has been around longer than just about any financial blog in existence, there’s a deeply-rooted culture here. There are a lot of inside jokes and running gags, and for the...

This market will not go down. At least investors should not expect it to until it proves otherwise. What would that take? A solid-to-large down day to start, then a second solid follow-through down...

Emini Dow Jones break higher targets 21305/315...eventually, but it is likely to be a slow crawl higher of course. If we continue higher in to next week look for 21390/21410. Bulls remain in full...

Emini S&P 500 shot higher to the next target of 2425/26 & almost as far as 2436/38. Further gains target 2442/44 but we are getting overbought short term so upside is likely to be more limited...

Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos Trust (LON:SOST) was launched in 1995, aiming to generate long-term capital growth from a portfolio of small-cap Asian equities (excluding Japan and Australasia). When...

ES Soared to the Top of its Red Megaphone Yesterday & the Top Here Could Be Quick I mentioned two days ago that Neely is looking for a fast, startling plunge to below 2200 to kick off the start of...

Valuation StretchedOpinionAll of the indexes closed higher yesterday with positive internals on the NYSE and NASDAQ as volumes dropped from the prior session. Every index chart saw technical...