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Read This Before Your Next ETF Trade Bear Acceleration Confirms New Trade Signal [SPY] Options Traders Call for Market Selloff Time to Harvest Profits in Agribusiness? Dollar Diverging From Gold & Bonds
 
Read This Before Your Next ETF Trade

Read This Before Your Next ETF Trade

Whether it's soaring or slumping — and it often does both during the course of a week — the financial sector never falls far from investors' radar. That's not news, of course. But what you might not know is that there are many ways to trade this sector, none of which involves buying or selling [...]

Bear Acceleration Confirms New Trade Signal [SPY]

Bear Acceleration Confirms New Trade Signal [SPY]

August will be the third month of losses for the stock market out of the last four when the books close next Tuesday and we move into September. The major US indices have lost more than 5% across the board with the Dow down just 4.25% and the Russell 2K down 10%. The bearish price action looks [...]

Options Traders Call for Market Selloff

Options Traders Call for Market Selloff

The CBOE Equity Put/Call Ratio hit the lower extreme on Monday, which means there were an extreme number of calls purchased relative to puts. Based on the contrarian viewpoint this is a strong sell signal on the markets. In my view, I’ve found the Equity Put/Call Ratio (EPCR) extremely valuable in helping define short-term tops and bottoms. [...]

Time to Harvest Profits in Agribusiness?

Time to Harvest Profits in Agribusiness?

Agricultural stocks and commodities have significantly outperformed the market over the past two months and it finally made front page news last week after the HUGE takeover bid for Potash (POT) from BHP Billiton (BHP).  Officially BHP is still chasing its kill and one must ask if this will end up like the failed Rio [...]

Dollar Diverging From Gold & Bonds

Dollar Diverging From Gold & Bonds

  For most of 2010, there was an interesting performance correlation between Gold (GLD), Bonds (TLT) and the Dollar (UUP).  The three securities were moving mostly in tandem, which is somewhat unusual historically.  There is no 'set in stone' relationship between these, but quite often Gold and the Dollar will go opposite directions, for example. [...]

4 Cornerstones of ETF Options

4 Cornerstones of ETF Options

02 September 2010

Here's one for you new and intermediate options traders (though frankly, I think traders of all experience levels can benefit by getting back to basics). Want to know what I think are the four cornerstones of sound options investing? They aren't complicated, yet they seem to be elusive too much of the time. They are… [...]

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Trading Range Bounce – Weekly Market Outlook

Trading Range Bounce – Weekly Market Outlook

30 August 2010

Just when it looks like the bears are going to drive the final nail in the coffin, the bulls pick themselves up off the mat and come out fighting again. Friday's huge upside reversal forces us to acknowledge the possibility that we may yet stave off a re-entry into a bear market. We've got the [...]

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Elliott Wave and Fibonacci Forecasts for Stocks & Gold

Elliott Wave and Fibonacci Forecasts for Stocks & Gold

20 August 2010

Stocks: I had been concerned that the market could have a hangover after the recent rally.  Apparently, my concern was not un-founded as we dropped from a rising bearish wedge near 1130, to the 1070 Fibonacci pivot earlier this week.  We're covering SPX shorts near 1070 this week. Bringing things up to speed, the market [...]

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August INVESTR Report Now Available

August INVESTR Report Now Available

04 August 2010

The new August INVESTR Report is available to subscribers now.  To read the online report or download the full PDF report go to your member homepage.  In this issue we have three new trades and no exits.  All INVESTR reports include the following Message from Portfolio Manager, Andrew Hart Portfolio Video Update Position Table with [...]

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July ETF Trend Summary

July ETF Trend Summary

02 August 2010

It’s time for another ETF trend summary  and this time for July (oh how time flies)… Major indices posted the first monthly gain since April of this year led primarily by industrials (XLI) and energy (XLE). After a two month hiatus from gains we saw just about all prevailing trends reverse during July. As it stands for the [...]

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Boiling it Down – Weekly Outlook

Boiling it Down – Weekly Outlook

02 August 2010

Thanks to Friday's rebound, the broad market effectively closed out last week at a break-even. The Dow actually closed ahead by 41 points, the NASDAQ was off 15 points, and the S&P 500 ended the week just a hair under (-1.06 points) the prior week's closing level. Was it a lucky week for the bulls, [...]

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Gold: A Falling Knife or Great Value?

Gold: A Falling Knife or Great Value?

28 July 2010

Before we look at the GLD charts I want to move a little off topic… It's hard to root against anything with the marketing budget the size of Gold Bullion.  The commodity has thousands of 'brand ambassadors' worldwide, which can usually be found on talk radio or 24 hour cable news advertising spots.  It would [...]

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