Tag: market volatility

The S&P 500 has undercut its January 20 closing low of 1859 and is moving toward the January 20 intraday low of 1812. Concerns continue...

As they say, history often rhymes... But it rarely repeats. Or at least in the way that we imagine. That's not to say that looking...

The Big Picture - A Changing Market Environment Markets are constantly changing and and understanding a changing market environment is essential for long term success. In...

The Big Picture: Move along everyone, there’s nothing to see here... As someone who follows the markets constantly, it’s interesting to see how the Twitter stream,...

The stock market has been trading sideways for about 15 months now.  Within that time frame, we have seen 3 very quick market corrections....

For the past two weeks, we have been discussing a divergence in Volatility. Specifically, the observation is that the move lower for the stock market...

Investors and options traders sell puts and put spreads to generate additional income or acquire stock. In many cases, traders attempt to time their...

Just 2 weeks into the new year and it already feels like an entire year of trading has passed. The price action has been...

The Bear is Growling: Will All Those 2015 Technical Warnings Finally Spur A Bear Market? I have been writing technical stock market commentary for a long...

Last weekend we took a look at a divergence in volatility. Specifically, I said that we haven’t seen the explosion in volatility that typically...