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The second quarter ends today and with that we have an opportunity to step back, and look at the bigger picture. With markets trading in such a narrow range for so long we have all become accustomed...
Wednesday after the market closed, it was announced that the for the first time all financial names that the Fed monitors passed their stress tests. This was followed by a slew of announcements from...
Tuesday the NASDAQ 100 (via NASDAQ:QQQ) closed below its 50 day SMA for the first time in 2017. The tone of traders, investors and pundits changed quickly. My social media streams became flooded with...
OPEC is trying to enforce quotas, but everyone is cheating. The US has massive shale oil drilling capacity. And the country is shifting towards natural gas and solar power. All this lines up for a...
Last week’s review of the macro market indicators noted that with Options Expiration and the June FOMC meeting in the rear view mirror equities looked to emerge on the other side mainly...
One thing that stuck with me long after I returned from living and working in London was from the underground system. Many of the underground stops are on curves leaving a significant gap between the...
Tuesday night, just 24 minutes after midnight in the eastern time zone, the Summer Solstice occurs. This marks a change of season. Summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere and and Winter in the...
Here is your Bonus Idea with links to the full Top Ten:Chevron (NYSE:CVX), stock price rose out of consolidation around $100 at the beginning of November, prior to the election. It continued higher to...
Intuitive Surgical, Ticker: ISRGIntuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG), has plodded methodically higher since the beginning of the year. It made a high 2 weeks ago and pulled back, setting up for a chance...
Last week’s review of the macro market indicators saw equities mixed heading into the June Options Expiration Week, with the IWM and SPY (NYSE:SPY) looking strong but the QQQ weak as there was...
Earlier this week the Fed raised short-term interest rates to a range of 1.00 to 1.25%. To many of us, that's still a very low level. In fact you have to go back to October 2008 to find a higher level...
The chart below shows the daily price action of the last 12 months of the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (NASDAQ:TLT) It started moving lower in July 2016 after completing a 3 Drives pattern. The...
With the FOMC winding up their June meeting today, the financial news shows and press will be all about whether or not they will vote to increase short term rates, by how much and then immediately...
We have all seen the puzzles either when we were kids or even now taking our kids out to dinner on their kids meal menus. There is tic-tac-toe, word search and scrambles, and three pictures that look...
Here is your Bonus Idea with links to the full Top Ten:Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) started to run higher in November reaching a peak in March. It held there for 1 day before a gap down and then a drift lower...
Last week’s review of the macro market indicators saw that heading into the first full week of June, equity markets looked strong. Elsewhere looked for gold (GLD (NYSE:GLD)) to push higher in...
Two major items have been weighing on the banking sector since last falls election: Fed policy and Dodd-Frank Repeal. Next week the FOMC meets for a 2-day meeting and at last view, the market gives it...