How Do Stocks Perform The Week After June Options Expiration?
The month of June has been widely cited this year as a seasonally weak period for stocks, particularly because 2014 is a mid-cycle election...
Is Market Sentiment Signaling A Major Peak In Equities?
What do investors make of the record new low levels seen on the CBOE Options Equity Put/Call Ratio? Is market sentiment getting too complacent?...
[VIDEO] The Next Bear Market: How To Protect Your Assets
While you have probably read countless bearish and inaccurate investing forecasts over the past 24 months, the objective of this article is not to...
Is The Silver ETF (SLV) On The Verge Of A Breakout?
In just three weeks, Silver has gone from the brink of collapse to being on the verge of a price breakout. But this sort...
Gold Miners (GDX) Technical Outlook
Gold mining stocks are officially on the trader radar. Including today's surge higher, the Gold Miners (GDX) are 25 percent off the 52 week lows recorded in...
10 Things I’ve Learned About Trading Over The Past Decade
For the past 10 years, I worked at Schaeffer’s Investment Research. Over that time, I woke up every day and watched and traded the...
3 Solar Stocks To Watch This Summer
Solar stocks are back on the radar again. And 3 solar names in particular have caught my attention: Sunpower Corporation (SPWR), SolarCity Corporation (SCTY), and...
Symphony of Destruction: How Stocks, Bonds and Crude Are Reprising 2007
Of all the indicators foreshadowing economic health and the future of stock market returns, perhaps none has been a better tell than the inverted...
4 Auto Stocks At Technical Crossroads
Cyclicals historically lead early in a bull market, and are among the first to show signs of trouble later in the cycle. Â Representative of...
Biotech Buyouts Boost Sector ETFs
Biotech buyouts may be en vogue again. Nothing exemplifies this more than the recent buyout of Idenix Pharmaceuticals (IDIX) by drug maker Merck & Co...