The psychology of the stock market may be teetering on the edge.  One week it acts like Dr. Jekyll, the next week it’s Mr. Hyde. That shift can even occur in the course of a single session. These dramatic fluctuations appear to be impulsive; and we know that impulse does not flow from cold re...

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cheshire Cat. “I don’t much care where . . . ” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the ...

Inquiring minds are listening to Marc Faber on the global economy. Link if video does not play: Marc Faber speaks of Imminent Market Crash Faber says China faces a recession defined as a slowdown to 3%. Interestingly, 3% is the same long-term target that Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets ...

Bloomberg authors By Steve Matthews and Tom Keene report Greenspan Says U.S. Stocks ‘Very Cheap,’ Likely to Rise Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said U.S. stocks offer good value and are likely to rise as corporate earnings increase over time. “Stocks are very cheap,” Greenspa...

Ever since the beginning of gold’s bull market, this metal’s economic balance has come under intense scrutiny.  Demand has been on the rise as more and more investors have embraced gold as a store of wealth.  And the supply chain has done its best to meet this growing demand. However consideri...

The below video is a very important subscriber flash alert detailing the dramatic technical deterioration that occurred on Thursday and Friday of last week (24th and 25th of May) not only in equities, but also in currencies and commodities – as determined by our proprietary trend signal analyt...

Here is a new update of a popular market valuation method using the most recent Standard & Poor’s “as reported” earnings and earnings estimates and the index monthly averages of daily closes for March 2012, which is 1386.43. The ratios in parentheses use the monthly close of 1,...

The $OEXA200R (the percentage of S&P 100 stocks above their 200 DMA) is a technical indicator available on StockCharts.com that can be used to forecast conservative entry and exit points for the stock market. The OEXA is used to find the “sweet spot” time period in the market when yo...

The latest reports from the Bureau of Economic Analysis on economic growth and personal income and spending have, on the surface, appeared to improve.  Spending, as a percentage of the economy has just hit the highest level on record while economic growth is clipping along at a 2.2% annual growth r...