Russell 2000: Small Caps Issue “Beta” Warning?
I often refer to the Russell 2000 and the Nasdaq as the "beta brothers". The reason is simple: Tech stocks and small cap stocks tend...
Advance-Decline Data Sending Mixed Signals At Inflection Point
Advance-decline data across the board has looked impeccable for over a year. In theory, it leads the stock market to new highs. Obviously, so far it...
Investor Radar: 2 Bullish Software Stocks
Earlier this week we mentioned in the Global Equity Markets Review that technology has the strongest model score of the eleven sectors we rank. So...
S&P 500 Trading Outlook: Expecting Further Strength
S&P 500 Trading Outlook (3-5 Days): BULLISH It's tough to sell stocks based on Wednesday's rally. And, despite having reached the March highs, exhaustion...
Time For Commodity Prices to Rise?
The market did exactly what we thought it would do given the blog from February 25th when I observed a, “Nasty Potential Topping Pattern...
eBay’s Stock Rises After Capitulating to Activist Shareholders
eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) rose by as much as 4% Friday morning, after it announced it had entered into cooperation agreements with two activist shareholders. However,...
Investors: Normal is in the Eye of the Beholder
A scorpion asks a frog to ferry it across a river. The frog tells the scorpion he fears being stung. The scorpion promises not...
Stock Market Today: Holding Pattern Into Month End
Stocks are trading sideways into month end as investors look to log another month of gains for February. The S&P 500 is holding / consolidation...
China ETF (FXI) Showing Constructive Price Action
The emerging markets are slowly working themselves into the investment conversation. And although the broader ETF (EEM) or tracking indexes may only be "trading" material...
S&P 500 Update: Stocks Trading In Triangle Pattern
The Bottom line: The trend on the S&P 500 will remain bullish until/unless 2612 is broken on a closing basis. The S&P 500 and NASDAQ...