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David Tice of Tice Capital is one of the stock market's most notable and vocal bears. His own website even highlights the dangers of "investing near the end of a secular bull market" yet at the same time he believes an equally dangerous trade is betting against the bull market and...

Bulls will be quick to point out that major U.S. stock indices are higher since the start of 2016 after a very rough start to the new year. Bears can also point out that the major stock indices are still lower today than they were a year ago. So is the market in a bull or bear cycle? According...

Traders that have followed the crowd's "consensus" view on what was supposed to happen this year have likely not been having a good year. This is the second consecutive year in which the self-proclaimed masters of the universe have gotten it wrong - very wrong. At the beginning...

There are investors that are not big fans of basing investment decisions on one's "macro view." Such an approach would appear to be anchored in logic. The first step is to establish a macro view of the world. In other words, a trader must first decide what is likely to happen to...

At the end of January and into the first week of February, we penned a handful of articles -- focusing on the question of whether or not the stock market was facing a new crisis or merely a garden-variety pullback. Since the market has been dealt more than its fair share of crises over the past...

Ok, market bears, deal with it: With just two trading days left in the month -- actually one and-a-half -- November is looking like a winner. The Dow Jones industrials are up 3.4 percent for the month, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index showing a 2.63 percent gain. The Nasdaq Composite...