Where Will Spill In Oil Prices Be Contained?
The ongoing drop in oil prices accelerated in the past 2 days with the decision by OPEC not to cut production. With Light Sweet Crude…
Taking Profits In Europe, International Stocks
On October 14 and October 17, we published posts highlighting major Fibonacci support areas being tested by the MSCI Europe Index and the MSCI EAFE…
Bullish Fund Assets Double Bears For 1st Time Since 2001
We’ve talked about various measures of investor sentiment quite often recently. To reiterate, these indicators measure either what investors say they are doing or what…
Tail Risk Indicator Back To Extreme Levels
2014 may well eventually be known for its buildup of various warning signs in the stock market. While the trigger that brings such warnings to…
Big Gaps To New Highs Bring Short-Term Pain, Long-Term Gain
Lately it seems as though this market is producing unusual, and at times unprecedented, price action on a daily basis. Friday was no exception. Thanks…
U.S. Stocks are 2nd Most Overbought In History Everyone knows that, as a whole, the U.S. stock market is overbought. At the moment it doesn’t…
Rising Junk Bond Yields Signaling Long-Term Trouble?
Many commentators have highlighted the potential warning signs related to the high yield, or “junk”, bond market. We have ourselves pointed to the troubling issues…
Another Odd Large Cap-Small Cap Divergence
Another day, another piece of evidence of this strange, divergence-littered market environment. The subject of today’s Chart Of The Day is once again the small…
Some Vexing Behavior From The VIX
While the S&P 500 scored another all-time high on Monday, the market once again sent signals that it may not be a smooth ride ahead…
Stock Option Bulls Go Streaking
One method of analyzing stock market sentiment is by measuring activity in the options market. The benefit of this type of analysis is that, contrary…