Despite my expectations for higher levels the bigger pattern … Continue

Welcome to benefit from building a simple average S&P-500 forecast (up, down, or sideways) for the next week. If you use more than one method, approach, or tool for prediction, it could be reasonable to give a vote for each one. "Sideways" is defined as a change within 1%.

DJIA on CFD - daily is still in the bullish zone( above 45 degree)… Continue

The corections are the most boring part of the trading.

This morning the major stock market indexes are all starting under
pressure. However, gold and gold miners are trading sharply higher this
morning to start the session. The move higher in the gold sector comes
as many investors are under the impression that the Federal Reserve
Bank will try and stimulate the markets. Even though the fed funds
rate(overnight lending rate to the large major banks) is essentially at
zero percent and cannot go any lower the U.S. central bank still has
some tricks up… Continue

It's been a few months since I last posted the long term picture.

$XII is my index of choice. For those that don't know anything about XII, it's the institutional index. It represents the top HOLDINGS of big money. Top companies need to register their holdings with the SEC. This index is essentially the performance of the companies that are being held by big money.

Once of the nice things about this index, which I've learned from several places, is that since it cannot be trade… Continue

Options expire this Friday, so let’s take a look at the open-interest on SPY, DIA, QQQQ and IWM to see if they hint at movement the rest of the week. Here’s the theory: the market conspires to cause the most pain, to cause the most number of people to lose the most amount of money. If the market is to accomplish this, what does it need to do this week?

SPY (closed 108.03)… Continue