Archive for August, 2011

  • How Bad is Bank of America’s Stock?
    Posted by on August 23rd, 2011 at 12:55 pm, Comments: 0

    The simple answer? Really Bad. The stock is down almost 70% from it’s highs in April of last year. But do you want to know [...]

  • Roque: Looks Like More Downside Ahead
    Posted by on August 23rd, 2011 at 9:12 am, Comments: 0

    John Roque is hands down one of the best Technicians in the Business. I think that the way he able to explain what he is [...]

  • How Gold is Behaving When Compared to Platinum and Stocks
    Posted by on August 22nd, 2011 at 9:11 am, Comments: 0

    And the saga continues – Gold prices climbed to a record high this morning above $1890/oz in New York and London. Meanwhile, Platinum prices also [...]

  • Defensive Sectors Have Been the Market Leaders This Year
    Posted by on August 21st, 2011 at 4:53 pm, Comments: 0

    One of the major concerns that we had late this Spring was that the defensive sectors were the ones showing leadership. Sure, the S&P500 was [...]

  • QE2 Investment Performance
    Posted by on August 19th, 2011 at 10:39 am, Comments: 0

    Since the now infamous Jackson Hole comments on August 27th last year, the second round of quantitative easing has had some impact on the markets. [...]

  • Stocks Selloff Hard – What Are We Looking For Now?
    Posted by on August 18th, 2011 at 6:14 pm, Comments: 0

    I really don’t like obsessing over every tick in the S&P500. I don’t like to be that guy. But when there is volatility, there is [...]

  • Wide World of Charts
    Posted by on August 16th, 2011 at 12:41 pm, Comments: 0

    Worry About Important Things – Not the Death Cross (Ritholtz) Peter Schiff – Relentless Rise in Gold to Continue (KingWorldNews) Housing Starts Decline Slightly in [...]

  • Where is the Volume?
    Posted by on August 16th, 2011 at 8:52 am, Comments: 0

    What makes you more money? A 9% rally on low volume or a 9% rally on big volume? That’s the question we need to ask [...]

  • What if Treasury Bonds Keep Rolling Over?
    Posted by on August 15th, 2011 at 5:48 pm, Comments: 0

    A lot of What If’s out there…. Yesterday we took a look at the Nasdaq100 and asked: What if, after closing right at former support, [...]

  • Weekly Nasdaq 100 Candles
    Posted by on August 14th, 2011 at 1:47 pm, Comments: 0

    The action in the Nasdaq100 has been giving us clues as to what the rest of the equities market is going to do since this [...]