Stocks continued lower, putting in their worst week since May 2012. Oil cracked into the $50’s. We paid 2.25 per gallon for regular gasoline yesterday. Supply has been healthy, but demand has been off. So this is a mixed bag. We need to keep an eye on retail sales and wages. I have a suspicion…
Better watch out, better not cry, ProTrader Mike is going to tell you why…the Dow is about to take a crashing you know…. What is the Megaphone Pattern? A megaphone pattern is considered bearish, indicating that the current uptrend may reverse to form a new downtrend. A Megaphone Top is rare and must be played…
It’s been an amazing comeback year for the fixed-income markets following the interest rate volatility in 2013, especially in light of the sentiment statistics at the time calling for a steady rise for interest rates into 2015. As a result, I doubt that many investors would have thought we would breach the psychologically significant 2%…
Today we are going to talk about one of the most volatile – and often very rewarding — sectors of the market, the small cap biotech/biopharma space. The wide divergence of outcomes in this space is why I take much smaller positions in a bigger pool of attractive plays when investing in the biotech/biopharma sectors….
Click on picture to enlarge Since 2013, when the Put to Call ratio’s 21 day moving average is low and turns higher, the S&P has turned soft for a while. At this time the P/C ratio isn’t off the scale low, it has declined some of late though. The key to this chart, is to…
Below is a look at some of the headlines for companies that made news in the healthcare sector on December 12, 2014.ChemoCentryx Inc (NASDAQ: CCXI) gained more than 70 percent Friday on news that its lead drug candidate met with success in a Phase II study. Shares of the company changed hands recently at $7.57, up…
Greek Gamble Greece has recently been in the headlines again, and you can immediately guess why when looking at its stock and bond markets: Greece’s stock market has reversed course this year, and recently it has had a few bad hair days that looked especially gut-wrenching We outlined the basic problem in a post in…
We warned just a week ago that the lag between initial price declines in oil and the closure of rigs was between 4 and 6 months and just as we warned of the deja-vu all over again, Banker Hughes reports that the Rig Count this week dropped the most since March 2013 (oil rigs dropped 29 to…
Source: flickr Dear Diary, A conversation in the hotel lobby… Woman – tall, thin, attractive: “Hey, you must be a writer. You look like a writer.” Your editor, hunched over his laptop writing… “Good guess.” Woman, putting her arm around his shoulders… “I’m Rebecca. What’s your name?” “Bill…” “What are you writing about?” “A subject so…
The Weekly Leading Index (WLI) of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) is at 132.3, down from the previous week’s 132.5. The WLI annualized growth indicator (WLIg) is at -2.3, up slightly from -2.4 the previous week. ECRI has been at the center of a prolonged controversy since publicizing its recession call on September 30, 2011. The company had…
