Top Advisors Corner September 30, 2015 at 01:24 PM
I thought, based on the markets behavior ending last Friday, that we'd see a bull bear spread on the Investors Intelligence survey of around minus -7% today when the new number was released. I wasn't pessimistic enough apparently as the number came in at -10.4%... Read More
Top Advisors Corner September 30, 2015 at 08:25 AM
Monitoring purposes SPX: long SPX on 9/22/15 at 1942.74. Monitoring purposes GOLD: Flat Long Term Trend monitor purposes: Flat The bottom window in the above chart is the SPY/TRIN ratio which helps to gauge the panic in the TRIN compared to the price of the SPY... Read More
Top Advisors Corner September 28, 2015 at 12:28 PM
'Denial' is not a river in Egypt - as market price behavior has affirmed over at least a few months now... Read More
Top Advisors Corner September 25, 2015 at 09:18 AM
In an April 2014 Chart In Focus article, I noted how the yield spread between 10-year German government bonds and the equivalent U.S. government bonds was saying that the bull market could not yet be over... Read More
Top Advisors Corner September 24, 2015 at 07:33 AM
Monitoring purposes SPX: long SPX on 9/22/15 at 1942.74. Monitoring purposes GOLD: Flat Long Term Trend monitor purposes: Flat Today the 5 day average of the TRIN closed at 1.80. The bottom window in the chart above is the 5 day average of the TRIN going back 10 months... Read More
Top Advisors Corner September 18, 2015 at 02:37 PM
Monetary policy slowing 'crushing' - private sector economic recovery, was one reason to have preferred a Fed 'hike'. Behind the scenes Fed folks likely 'get' how they overstayed an excessively easy 'emergency' policy posture... Read More
Top Advisors Corner September 18, 2015 at 07:50 AM
Recent data from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) shows that there is some gathering optimism about the future prospects for the housing and construction areas of the U.S. economy... Read More
Top Advisors Corner September 16, 2015 at 08:00 AM
Monitoring purposes SPX: long SPX on 8/21/15 at 1970.89. Monitoring purposes GOLD: Flat Long Term Trend monitor purposes: Flat The pattern forming appears to be a bearish “Rising Wedge”... Read More
Top Advisors Corner September 11, 2015 at 02:47 PM
The market seems to have found some stability after the bug push lower that saw the market flash crash one day and even though it recovered some, saw some real technical damage once the heavy selling episode was over... Read More
Top Advisors Corner September 11, 2015 at 10:22 AM
The August 2015 minicrash caused the spot VIX Index to move up above the price level of all of its futures contracts, which currently extend out to May 2016... Read More
Top Advisors Corner September 11, 2015 at 10:14 AM
How to Know when It Is Over Often times Technical and Retail Traders jump back into buying stocks before a Market Correction has ended. Sometimes this is a “Buy-on-the-Dip” strategy that backfires as the market opens up, then sells down the remainder of the day... Read More
Top Advisors Corner September 09, 2015 at 01:20 PM
Monitoring purposes SPX: long SPX on 8/21/15 at 1970.89. Monitoring purposes GOLD: Flat Long Term Trend monitor purposes: Flat Friday’s short term report, noted that there was a possibility that the September 1 low may be tested... Read More
Top Advisors Corner September 04, 2015 at 01:58 PM
When my parents, Sherman and Marian McClellan, first came up with the math for the McClellan Oscillator in 1969, they were applying it to the daily difference between Advances and Declines (A-D)... Read More
Top Advisors Corner September 04, 2015 at 01:47 PM
How to Use Bollinger Bands with Quantity Indicators Bollinger Bands are an outstanding indicator for analyzing sideways patterns... Read More
Top Advisors Corner September 04, 2015 at 11:45 AM
Gene Inger's Daily Briefing (highlights)- for Friday, September 4, 2015 Thanks to ECB 'puffery' - about more potential Quantitative Easing; markets in Europe, and initially (if illogically) for the US, ran up in a swift sharp move in today's (Thursday) trading... Read More
Top Advisors Corner September 03, 2015 at 10:57 AM
Monitoring purposes SPX: long SPX on 8/21/15 at 1970.89. Monitoring purposes GOLD: Flat Long Term Trend monitor purposes: Flat Above is the chart that was posted on the July 28 report... Read More
Top Advisors Corner September 01, 2015 at 01:57 PM
Rationales & Targets While the bear camp has indeed expanded in recent weeks, the shift in bias has been quite modest and there seemed to be precious little in the way of actual capitulation on the trading floor, thus we must presume this is only the first leg down of a much larg... Read More
