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…
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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…
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…
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…
String of Low Volume New Highs A Short-Term Concern A couple weeks ago, we commented that the waning volume accompanying the rally off the October…
Historic shift in volatility from small to large caps There has been an abundance of discussion recently regarding the relative performance of large caps to…
High-volume breakdowns lead to nearby bottoms — after a flush
Yesterday, the S&P 500 accomplished a rare feat. It touched a 6-month low (before recovering) on the heaviest volume day in a year on the…
Is the volatility spike over — or just beginning?
Unless you have been in a bunker hiding from ebola, you’ve no doubt noticed the pick up in volatility across basically all asset classes. In…
Amid heavy selling, a light at the end of the tunnel
On September 26, we wrote a post titled “90% Down Volume Days Have Been Good Buy Signals…With One Catch” looking at the phenomenon of 90%…