Commercial Hedgers are at their largest net short position in silver futures in over 7 years. We take a break today (though, it may be…
The “equal-weight” S&P 500 has dropped to near 3-year lows versus the cap-weighted version. Previous such events under similar conditions occurred at inauspicious times. Continuing with…
A popular consumer discretionary ETF became one of the few major funds to return to all-time high territory yesterday. But are a few of the…
After the initial pop off the September low, small-cap stocks have significantly under-performed their larger peers – is that trend as troublesome as some are…
It may not be the flashiest sector, but consumer staples stocks are the first to score a new high following the recent decline. While the…
Semiconductors have been among the strongest sectors during the October stock market rally; however, the sector is now running into potentially stiff resistance. Our blog…
Small cap stocks have generally lagged following the early October spike; however, the VALUE portion of the space still looks constructive in the near-term. In…
We seldom cover individual stocks in the blog. One exception was Wal-Mart, whose chart we analyzed a few weeks ago. WMT’s stock is trading at…
Stocks of “vice” industries like alcohol and tobacco are showing leadership – that hasn’t always been good news for the market. For the October equity bounce…
Equity options trading was extremely skewed toward puts yesterday, very unusual for a market that rallied strongly on the day, and over the past few…