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Scoreboard Most indices finished the week with green weekly candles; however, they barely did so, and it could have gone either way. In fact, the PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 (ETF) (NASDAQ: QQQ) was red. On the face of it, doji candles (indecision) are present, but the price action details were...

Last Friday ended on a sour note, mostly triggered by a strong job report. This solidified the notion that Yellen will rate rates in 2015, and markets sold off hard early before recovering a bit. In fact, the small caps closed +.78 percent. Check out the video below for a full recap of this...

Scoreboard: Last week ended on a sour note for the bulls after much promise. It's only fair though since much of the exuberance came from questionable rumors of Greek deals. Headlines are harmful to traders since they can ruin the homework. Once a headline comes out, the price action...

Scoreboard: Friday ended a green week, but the volumes were meek. In terms of price action, Friday did not make much sense. The markets were green on a day where bonds and the VIX were also green; usually markets should be red on strong bond days. Now What? The fundamentals are still intact...

Last week ended on a bitter sweet note for the bulls as markets rallied to extreme new highs before the U.S. opened on a surprise rate cut from China and more bullish talk from Draghi. The pop, however, did not last long, as markets spent most of the day sliding (and even going red for the...

Last Friday was a complete surprise with a 1.1-percent move for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) and S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX), along with a 1.4-percent gain on the NASDAQ Composite (INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC). A Few Points The S&P's V-shaped recovery is more than 11...

Red Friday capped a losing week across the board. The bottom line, though, is that for the past two years, the bull thesis has been the Fed. Many traders bought the markets because they knew quantitative easing (QE) was here, and the Fed had the "safety net" on. Now, tapering is...

Another labor report has come and gone and the world is still standing. Once again, the anticipation and inflated premium prices were almost for nothing. Except that this time there really was the potential for a disaster. To illustrate, imagine the worst case scenario and its ripple effects...

Markets have been relatively bullish via the indices posting big earnings and the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decision. Bernanke essentially reaffirmed no rate change and actual increase in POMO. The S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) responded very bullish to the news, but to no surprise, the...