Daily S&P 500 Trading: Monday Under-performance, Tuesday Out-performance And Other Patterns

(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on May 16, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) On Wednesday, May 15, the venerable Art Cashin on CNBC offered his observations on the strange consistency in the Tuesday trade since the S&P 500 (SPY) printed its low in 2012. … Read more

I Am Sticking With Gold: A Critique Of “The Golden Dilemma”

(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on July 29, 2013. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip} When King uttered these words in his final Inflation Report as Governor of the Bank of England (BoE), there was no sudden surge in interest rates or sell-offs in financial … Read more

T2108 Update (September 6, 2013) – A Market That Still Wants to Go Up

(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are highly gap down to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other … Read more

T2108 Update (August 30, 2013) – Bearish Divergence On the Edge of Oversold

(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are highly gap down to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other … Read more

T2108 Update (August 21, 2013) – Market On Edge; Further Discussion On Quasi-Oversold

(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are highly gap down to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other … Read more