Q2 earnings season is finally here, and the next few weeks promise to be extremely busy throughout the global markets. As always, these earnings reports will give us a better picture of the latest con...
While most members are focused on the precious metals, I’ve been waiting patiently for two other sectors to setup a long term buy signal which I believe happened last week. I know you are well awar...
We discuss the poor performance of Mortgage Applications (Bad Yearly Comps – remember where the 30-Year Bond was after the Brexit Vote) some good and bad news for Houston Real Estate, and the re...
The U.S. Fed talks, markets move. That’s how it has always gone in the past. The question is: what to make out of it? Or, stated differently, does it make sense to even try to make something out of ...
One month after we reported that the “restaurant industry hasn’t reported a positive month since February 2016”, we can add one more month to the running total: according to the late...
Equity markets roared this week, led by the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ). The tech-laden index regained its footing, closing over 3% for the week, (its highest close since Goldman put out its hit job on semicon...
The Q2 earnings season is gathering steam with 15.4% of the construction companies having already released their numbers. And they’re unblemished with earnings as well as a revenue beat ratio of 100...
In 2015, I penned my first article on the subject matter surrounding VIX-leveraged ETF/ETNs. Back then, as if it were that long ago, there really weren’t too many well-articulated articles and pract...
To be sure, we’ve seen all kinds of examples of spec positioning gone horribly awry this year and everyone knows stretched bets can be a contrarian indicator. But just because it keeps happening doe...
The Producer Price index increased 0.1% month over month, but on a year over year basis it fell from 2.4% in May to 2.0% in June. The decline was caused by the rise in oil prices dropping out of the m...