Time For A Pullback

Earnings season is just ramping up. Alcoa announced after the close last night and appears to have slightly surpassed expectations. Articles on Marketwatch.com …

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Oil Service Stocks Are Picking Up

The energy-related stocks are starting to pick up. OIH, the Oil Services ETF, is starting to show strength. As we head into spring, look for the energy stocks …

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A ‘Semi’-Good Trade

Friday's gap-down in most of the major markets, ETFs and individual stocks shows the markets are now pricing in a failure of the fiscal cliff talks. The …

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The Market Got Tired Of Waiting

For the past two weeks most of the indexes and major ETFs, and many stocks, have been trading in tight consolidation ranges. At a time of the year when …

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Keeping It Simple

It is too easy to get involved with indicators and miss the forest for the trees. On this chart for example, is this a clean ‘sell' signal back a few …

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Is That Asking Too Much?

I hate to prognosticate with wild abandon when the government could quickly throw a monkey wrench into the machinery of the market by walking away from a …

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What Does Russell Hear?

The market is trying, it really is. It wants to believe, believe that the economy is improving, if ever so slightly, that the ‘fiscal cliff' will turn …

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Is That Bush Moving?

The markets pulled back a bit yesterday. It certainly is not surprising, after four solid up-days since the reversal last week. And so far, the volume of the …

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The Consumer Cometh

In Friday's newsletter I showed where the NASDAQ Composite has risen to a well-formed downtrend line. Volume had fallen off, although I acknowledged the …

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Maybe A Good Football Game…

What started off as a strong reversal last Friday quickly ran out of momentum. The major indexes ended at a point that may help define a clear downtrend line …

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