Market Masters: Using Market Breadth for Portfolio Positioning
By Derek Hernquist The Dow Jones Industrials are up 1% and you make an average of 2% each across your 10 longs. A week...
Crafting the Right Approach to Sustainable Investing
My previous post on sustainable investing introduced the concept and concluded that making sustainability a focus or a part of your investment criteria can...
Sci-Fi Friday: Russell 2000 About to Cross the Streams
Market-leading small-cap benchmark Russell 2000 (RUT) just closed out the last full trading week of July +23.7% YTD, currently outpacing...just about every major asset class...
Is the Housing Recovery Faltering?
Something interesting happened on the way to the much-vaunted Housing recovery. To the apparent dismay and consternation of the Fed and homebuyers waiting in...
Options Trading Education: Let’s Double the Diagonal
In the past two columns I have discussed spreading time, also known as calendar spreads. There are horizontal time spreads which use the same...
Market Masters: The Crude Realities of Trading Through a Losing Streak
By Jon Boorman We all know the old maxim of running winners and cutting losers. It's been cited numerous times in many of the...
Question Everything: Challenging Your Market Opinions
Given the delicate context the broad market up-trend finds itself in, this morning marked one of those rare occasions in which I check the...
Planetary Stations Update: What’s Next for Mr. Market?
The S&P 500 (SPX) continues its slow grind higher confirming our latest hypothesis that the market may have found a summer floor at the 2007...
The Apple Ecosystem and Its Far Reaching Economic Implications
Entering the 2nd half of 2013, I have targeted five different themes to investigate, research and evaluate in a search for emerging economic trends...
Normal Distribution Indicators Anything But Normal
After the financial crisis, it became clear to many investors that markets were far from being normally distributed. Tools like VaR and other risk...
