The COT Report: Futures Market Highlights Traders Confusion
The following is a recap of The COT Report (Commitment Of Traders) released by the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) looking at futures positions...
S&P 500 Market Update: 8 Reasons A Bottom May Be Near
The S&P 500 fell right to the next key support area of 1,970 on Friday, as fear and panic quickly spread to the throughout...
Why Backtests Are Important For Traders To Understand
Backtests are an important price pattern for active investors to understand. Today I want to highlight a couple of recent trading backtests that failed and...
Top Trading Links: Research For Riding The Storm Out
Week in and week out, the goal of Top Trading Links is to myth bust and think different. At the same time we try...
A Different Perspective On Market Valuations
Risk is not a number. Risk is simply overpaying for an asset.
Investment managers who avoid overpaying for assets increase their odds of purchasing...
Market Leans On Corporate Buybacks As Earnings Decline
Late last year as the Federal Reserve was unwinding quantitative easing (QE), there was suspense in the air as to how this might impact...
The Art Of Trading And The Illusion Of Control
I’ve written and said many times before that simplicity is a good thing—if you have a trading methodology that is overly complex, there’s a...
Gold Bugs Trend Change? Keep An Eye On This Ratio Chart
The chart below looks at the S&P 500 to Gold Bugs Index ratio over the past 20 years.
As you can see the ratio trended...
Should Investors Own Small Caps? An ETF Study
Small cap stocks were one of the strongest areas of the market in the first half of the year and have recently seen much...
Crude Oil Prices Sink To Interesting Level On 30 Year Chart
For the past several weeks I have been waiting for Crude Oil prices to get back down to current levels, around $42 per barrel....
