Oil Stocks Testing Breakdown Level Of Long-Term Uptrend
One of the biggest casualties of the recent stock market decline has been energy stocks. One may even argue that they are the culprit, or…
Internal Combustion: Anatomy Of A Market Top-Part 1
This piece originally appeared as the August issue of the J. Lyons Fund Management, Inc. Newsletter at www.jlfmi.com. Over the past few months, we have…
What Happens After A Crash?
Our posts this week have dealt with analyzing the aftermath of the recent historic events that have unfolded in the stock market. However, of all…
Flurry Of 90% Down Days: Capitulation Or Caution?
Three 90% Down Days in 2 weeks may signal brighter longer-term prospects…but not without heightened risk in the near-term. One theme coming out of our…
Odds Favor A Year-End Rally…After A New Low
August 6-month lows have had a tendency to be broken in the coming months, prior to a year-end bounce. After getting kicked in the teeth…
Volatility of Volatility is Soaring off the Charts. Take a Look at This
stocktwits: It’s official. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 have entered a long awaited correction. There’s been a lot of chatter recently about…
What Does Last Week’s Record Bounce Mean For Stocks?
Last week was certainly a historic one in the markets. Given Monday’s mini-crash, somewhat lost in it all (except for the bulls) was the fact…
Key Market Gauge Able To Hold Important Support
Just 8 days ago, we highlighted the breakdown of the Value Line Geometric Composite below its post-2009 UP trendline. And while trendlines are a dime…
Volatility Of Volatility Flies Off The Charts
The Volatility Index of the VIX just crushed its previous record high. We’ve spent the week pointing out some of the eye-opening readings dished out…
Four Straight 1% Down Days: FOURtune Or FOURwarned?
Rare four straight 1% drops in the S&P 500 have mostly occurred at bottoms of some significance…with a few notable exceptions. Our last several posts…