Tag: stock market analysis

By Brad Tompkins One of the difficulties using traditional Technical Analysis to make trading decisions is that there are times of imprecise signals. In those...

Last weekend I wrote about near-term caution flags that may bring some backing and filling for the S&P 500. No, it wasn't a...

By Jeff Voudrie The U.S. stock market has surged 12% from the low set on June 4, 2012. Retired wealth investors and those pursuing retirement income...

Since peaking last summer, the Dow Jones Transportation Index has lagged the Dow Jones Industrials and other major market indices. Currently sitting under downtrend resistance,...

A quick look at the technical picture on the daily and hourly bar charts of the S&P 500. As always, fed day is sure...

As I was running through my various charts after the close today, I came across this interesting tidbit related to the NASDAQ index: Participation...

By Alex Salomon As with previous columns, let's review trade ideas/positions and preview the week to come. You can follow most of my real-time updates and...

By Andrew Nyquist After yet another low volume, low volatility week in which the markets slowly climbed higher, caution flags are starting to appear. As we...

By Alex Salomon Another week is upon us and this edition is really bordering on total randomness. On with my 5 thoughts! 1.  Political Randomness... Although a non-Mormon,...

Since early February, the Emerging Markets (EEM) have really lagged the major U.S. indices (here shown against the S&P 500 index fund - SPY). This...