Market Overview

Stocks ended the day higher amid an implied volatility crush, with the VIX index dropping sharply. The VIX closed the gap from its significant rise on Thursday, October 31. More interesting was the...

As I have been writing publicly for over 13 years, and have been running my services for and teaching trading and investing to thousands of retail customers and money manager clients for the same, I...

U.S. Treasury yields have become a critical indicator for retail investors as markets navigate shifting monetary policy expectations and economic signals ahead of the hyped presidential election. The...

Trump vs Harris: Who's Better for Gold, Stocks and US Dollar?

In his 2022 Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRKa) shareholder letter, Warren Buffett wrote that in his 80 years of investing, he had “yet to see a time when it made sense to make a long-term bet against...

Some of our best friends are technicians. Ed was at Prudential (LON:PRU) Equity Group at the same time as Ralph Acampora, the renowned market historian and technical analyst. Ralph's analysis often...

Can famed investors Paul Tudor Jones and Stan Druckenmiller, who recently proclaimed they are short bonds, thus betting on higher yields, be wrong? Instead of mindlessly assuming such legendary...

Global markets suffered a broad-based downturn in October. For the first time since April, a majority of the major asset classes posted monthly losses based on a set of ETF proxies. The upside...

What a long, strange trip it’s been for some analysts since the summer of recession forecasts turned into yesterday’s robust 2.8% rise in third quarter GDP. A key driver of Q3’s advance: higher...

In terms of breadth, yesterday was a fairly-balanced down day, with about 270 stocks down in the S&P 500 and around 230 higher. The index has traded chiefly sideways since it broke the smaller,...

Economic growth accelerated in the eurozone from 0.2% to 0.4%, in part driven by one-offs. Underlying growth remains sluggish, but there are no signs of the deterioration that the European Central...

Driverless vehicles are no longer science fiction. The race to dominate the emerging Robotaxi market is heating up as companies push to be the first to hit the roads. Arriving in a sleek, silver...

Ahead of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut in September by 50 basis points, to a new 4.75% – 5% range, the stock market experienced volatility. This was to be expected, as it is embedded into...

The backup in Treasury yields may be a warning sign that the odds are slipping that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates again at the next policy meeting on Nov. 7. The policy-sensitive 2-year...