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Market Intro CNBC - 12:47PM EST US stocks ( SPY , DIA , QQQ , IWM ) are defying the tone of a down-drift set in the Asian ( AAXJ ) and European ( VGK ) markets, pressing higher and testing one-month highs in the process. The 10YR UST ( IEF , TLT ) yields about .75%, and spot WTI ( ...

Market Intro CNBC: 1:19PM EST European stocks ( VGK , EWG , EWU ) surged on rumors that financial ministers are looking to shore up national finances. More speculative assets such as Carnival Cruiselines ( CCL ) are soaring in Monday trade. US stocks ( SPY , DIA , QQQ , IWM ) are ...

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. --W. Edwards Deming On January 17, I posted this graphic: ("Bubbles" Source: Creative Commons) Unfortunately, it proved prescient. The S&P 500 peaked on Feb. 19. I was a little slow. My ser...

I'll be frank. I'm not a big fan on sentiment data analysis. I do find that a contrarian approach can be very helpful, but too often market participants tend to look for data that can be spun to formulate a "smarter than thou" outlook. Sentiment data, in particular, tends to be interpreted to ...

We've been telling anyone who would listen to properly diversify into something that actually does well in a market crash. Something with dynamic investment strategies that react to paradigm shifts and get on board with them. Things that do well in volatility spikes, but also when the spikes d...

It’s been a very turbulent year for traders in the popular iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN ( VXX ) with shares rallying by over 200% on a year-to-date basis. Over the past few weeks, I’ve written articles explaining why I both shorted VXX as well as doubled down...

Until recently, the market has been ignoring any exogenous risk factors with benign neglect. Take a pick of your favorite crisis from the atrocities in Syria, Brexit, the refuge crisis & European disintegration, North Korea or the trade war with China - equity markets shrugged off all of t...

With the equity market surging last week, seeing VIX close little-changed versus the prior Friday may have been confusing for some investors. But keep in mind that VIX is a measure of volatility , not just an inverse market index. In other words, it's not just crashing down that sends the...

In a recent article , we've posted the below chart alongside the following lines: Based on all of the above, we tend to think that we're getting closer to the end of the brutal part (up and including capitulation) and it's likely that we are not too far away from the "anger" phase. Th...

With S&P 500 ( SP500 ) futures in a free fall ahead of the market open last Monday, the Fed came out swinging by unveiling its biggest weapon yet: unlimited QE with corporate bond buying. Although the stock market initially shrugged off the announcement with a last-gasp plunge into lower l...