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About the author: serves as Director of Trading Education at MarketGauge.com. For nearly 20 years, MarketGauge.com has provided financial information and education to thousands of individuals, as well as to large financial institutions and publications such as Barron’s, Fidelity, ILX Systems, Thomson Reuters and Bank of America. In 2017, MarketWatch, owned by Dow Jones, named Mish one of the top 50 financial people to follow on Twitter. In 2018, Mish was the winner of the Top Stock Pick of the year for RealVision. Learn More

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Making Better Trades with Market Timing

by Forrest Crist-Ruiz, Mish Schneider

Our president and first lady contracted COVID. That yielded a morning gap down, followed by a rally; that rally was partially based on hope for the stimulus. These are some of the biggest thoughts on trader's minds as of Friday...Read More 

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How to React to a Choppy Market

by Forrest Crist-Ruiz, Mish Schneider

We've recently talked about higher volatility in the market with the election date closing in. In these past couple of weeks, we've seen the market jump around quite a bit...Read More 

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Time to Keep an Eye on Homebuilders

by Mish Schneider

It's time to start watching the homebuilding sector. We can look at this using the symbol XHB, which is an ETF based off the SPY...Read More 

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Risk vs. Reward and The Never-Ending Battle

by Mish Schneider

Today's large gap up in the indices can pose some great morning questions. The biggest one being, should I buy the gap, or should I wait to see where things go? You don't want to chase the market, but you don't want to miss out either...Read More 

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Market Indices Phased and Confused

by Forrest Crist-Ruiz, Mish Schneider

Coming into the weekend, we have more time to look over our charts, gather our thoughts and take a step back to grasp the larger picture. So, let's get right to it! From bullish to caution. This is the current phase the major indices have recently switched to...Read More 

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Navigating Through the Market's Choppy Waters

by Forrest Crist-Ruiz, Mish Schneider

Today the QQQs, SPY, and DIA, closed near the September 21st lows which we noted as possible support. While we rallied intraday, we also sold off, giving back most of the days upward progress...Read More 

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Junk Bonds Looking More Like Junk

by Forrest Crist-Ruiz, Mish Schneider

Let's start with the 4 major indices, the SPY, QQQ, DIA and IWM. They all sold off today, breaking yesterday's lows. Besides IWM, they are still not below their recent low from September 21st...Read More 

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How Long Will the Market Hold its Breath For?

by Forrest Crist-Ruiz, Mish Schneider

Yesterday, Mish talked about watching junk bonds (JNK) to see if the Fed would continue supporting high risk companies. Today, JNK had an inside day. This comes after a large red day where JNK gapped lower, breaking its 104.27-106 range...Read More 

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Measured Moves in the Market

by Mish Schneider

Coming into Monday, we wrote targets on the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100. Based on the measured move from the all-time high and the ensuing gap lower (or topping pattern), we shared with you all that the SPY target was 322 and QQQs target was 260...Read More 

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Time for the Newer Biotech Companies to Wake Up?

by Mish Schneider

With companies like Pfizer (PFE) giving possible hope for an end-of-year vaccine and a recent gap up in IBB (the Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF), now could be a good time to keep an eye on newer issues in this sector. Large amounts of buying came into IBB on Friday...Read More