ETF SPY: iShares Silver Trust (SLV) – Where is Support?
From peak to trough and in a little more than two years, silver has lost 63% of its value. The iShares Silver ETF (SLV) would...
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SPY vs TLT – Chart Shows Trouble
Years of rising prices have conditioned investors not to fight QE. The recent stock market correction was expected and is nothing out of the ordinary,...
Investor Playbook on Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL): Perilously Close to Critical Support
Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) been on a decade -long tear, rewarding many investors pretty handsomely. But in a September Investor Playbook piece we published last year near...
Gold’s Performance Tells Bernanke ‘QE is Not Infallible!’
The Federal Reserve has become somewhat of a financial super hero. Sure, it’s not acting in everyone’s best interest (unless you’re a big bank), but...
Iron Prices and Steel Producers ETF – Another Economic Indicator Sours
Last week we looked at the ailing U.S. manufacturing sector. Today we’ll look at a closely related commodity that’s often overlooked: Iron. Iron ore is...
Smart Option Traders ‘Smelled’ the Latest Bounce
The Volatility Index (VIX) has not lived up to its contrarian indicator reputation, but there is another CBOE options index that’s provided some noteworthy signals....
What The S&P 500 Term Structure Said
In equity markets, a selloff doesn’t really count until it gets the term structure up. The only two occasions when we got close to backwardation...
The Economy’s ‘Bread and Butter’ Sector is Back in Recession
The Federal Reserve has ‘manufactured’ a relentless bull market for stocks while kicking the economy’s ‘bread and butter’ sector – manufacturing – into recession territory....
Buying Climaxes Soar to ‘Flash Crash’ High as 30% of S&P 500 Stocks Peak
Buying climaxes are at the highest level since April 2010. The April 2010 highs were closely followed by the May ‘Flash Crash.’ Are the current...
How a Friendlier Germany Might Affect Options Markets
An article published in Der Spiegel on Monday is causing quite a stir for its suggestion of a policy about-face by Germany. Angela Merkel and...