The big technical level in the S&P 500 Index was 1,085, but that feels like some time ago. There is no magic trick on a technical level of 10,000 on the Dow…
Friday marked month-end for January in the financial markets. There have been many efforts out there to discuss the market’s direction, but perhaps the one issue that traders will be using to…
Gold has been on a tear and has performed better than stocks in recent years. But we have now seen a pullback and gold is back under $1,100.00 per ounce. While you…
Jim Cramer continued on his theme stock picks for 2010 on CNBC’s MAD MONEY tonight. We have already heard Cramer’s theme picks for homeland security, technology, ADRs, and for energy shortages. Tonight…
Your wait for the platinum and palladium ETF products is over. Today marked the launch of the ETFS Physical Platinum Shares (NYSE: PPLT) and ETFS Physical Palladium Shares (NYSE: PALL). These ETFs…
If you have ever wondered just how much exchange traded funds and exchange traded notes can run a market, you can forget about wondering how much the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) has…
We have compiled several options chains we are watching today now that the DEC-2009 PUTS/CALLS have expired on Friday. Much of this likely options roll-outs continuing, but we are seeing some unusual…
This might have seemed a tough week to come up with a list of unusual suspects. There are only a handful of earnings, but there are many follow-on items from last week…
If there was a single trading event for investors, traders, and speculators from early October to early December, it was not stocks and was not bonds. It was not even the bet…
It looks like the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) is about to get some new competition, albeit far a far smaller trading vehicle. A F-1 filing at the SEC was made today…
Friday’s surprisingly strong job report sent the dollar soaring (NYSE: FXE, FXB, FXA, FXY). Skittish currency traders got the impression that the improvement in the job market might prompt the Fed to…
This morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the unemployment rate had dropped from 10.2% to 10% and that nonfarm payroll jobs declined by just 11,000. The market rallied in the…
Yesterday Soros Fund Management Filed a 13-F outlining the fund’s long portfolio as of September 30th, 2009. The total value of the holdings reported in the filing is $6,198,089. Twenty holdings represented…
Yesterday’s surprise move from India that sent gold through the roof to almost $1,085.00 per ounce was a game changing event in gold. Many technical analysts and chartists were looking for, or…
Now that Gold has busted $1,000.00 and headed up almost every day since, the next target commodity is oil and the question is if black gold can mirror the performance of yellow…
