Happy Anniversary

Keith Schneider | October 18, 2015

Equity Markets continued to bounce this week, with the S&P 500 improving by almost one percent, and monthly gains so far almost 6%. Leading the charge are Gold Miners, up 20% since the August swoon.

The markets are confounding just …


Buy Wednesday, but Sell Before Friday! (and beat the market by 4x)

Geoff Bysshe | October 11, 2015

Have you ever felt as though it’s harder to trade on certain days of the week, or that the market is particularly bullish or bearish on certain days of the week?

Well, you’re right!

For example, in 2015 the best …


Wild Gyrations

Keith Schneider | October 4, 2015

The wild market gyrations continued and all key US indexes managed to close positive by 1% for the week. It was a struggle however, as the initial reaction to a weak September jobs report Friday morning along with a downward …


Poison Pill

Keith Schneider | October 1, 2015

Equity Markets remained under pressure this week with the key US Indexes closing down led by both the mid –caps, which closed down almost 4%.

More telling was the massive selloff in bio-tech, triggered by the revelation that a small …


Poison Pill

Keith Schneider | September 27, 2015

Equity Markets remained under pressure this week with the key US Indexes closing down led by both the mid –caps, which closed down almost 4%.

More telling was the massive selloff in bio-tech, triggered by the revelation that a small …


Watered Down Gas

Keith Schneider | September 20, 2015

For a brief moment (almost an half hour) right after the Fed’s announcement that the monetary spigots will be left wide open, the markets seemed to love it with the Dow Industrial’s up almost 200 points. After a brief realty …


The Fed: Houdini’s Famous Levitation Trick?

Keith Schneider | September 13, 2015

After mostly sideways action, US stocks ended the week on a positive note with the S & P 500 up .64%, although still down about -5% YTD and the leading index the NASDQ 100 up 2% for the week and …


Market Stress? The Fed has a free app for that!

Geoff Bysshe | September 6, 2015

Stress AND Perspective go hand in hand in life and markets. Most importantly you can’t deal with stress properly with out perspective.

How stressed out are the financial markets?

So with so much talk about whether the Fed will not …


Here’s the scariest news about China, and it’s not getting any press

Geoff Bysshe | August 30, 2015

It would be fun to spew the so many interesting statistics that describe last week’s historic stock market collapse and rebound, but most important point doesn’t require statistics to make it clear. That point is that the complexion of the …


Plunge Protection Team in the Hamptons

Keith Schneider | August 23, 2015

The nasty market selloff in global equity markets (-6.0 %) last week begs the question, will there be a repeat of the monster recovery rally that happened in October 2014, or is it different this time?  From a purely technical …