“Ride the gold rally” Barron’s exclaimed in March 2014. This very gold rally has turned into a sickening roller coaster for gold proponents. With gold nearing a 4-year low, can we start talking about a capitulation bottom?... >> READ MORE...

Many times catchy headlines do not deliver any content even remotely as interesting as the title. But this catchy headline is backed up by one of the most accurate stock market indicators in recent years. ... >> READ MORE...

On Friday the Dow Jones hit the ideal target of a rising wedge formation. The rising wedge is a bearish formation that projects about a 10% decline for the Dow if the lower wedge line (see Dow Jones chart) is broken.... >> READ MORE...

Watson is a super smart artificially intelligent computer system. It can beat any human on Jeopardy, but can’t tell us what’s next for IBM and the Dow Jones. Here’s a surprisingly simple, old-fashioned ‘eyeball’ assessment of IBM.... >> READ MORE...

For most of the 21st century Apple has been cool, while Microsoft couldn’t do more than drool. But things are changing (at least for investors). Microsoft has gone from ‘drool to cool’ on Wall Street. Will this surprising trend last?... >> READ MORE...

How bullish are investors really? There are different types of investors, individual investors, institutional investors, traders, smart money, dumb money … and there’s a gauge for each group. Here’s a look at six different investor sentiment indicators.... >> READ MORE...

A bigger and better iPhone, the new iWatch and new AAPL all-time highs … Apple has a lot of good things going. But, ironically this exciting time of the year (in terms of product launches) is the most treacherous for Apple shareholders.... >> READ MORE...

Since their inception, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF has almost always confirmed new highs of its cousin, the Select Sector Financial ETF. The only time it didn’t was in 2007 … and today. Here’s what makes this potential repeat intriguing.... >> READ MORE...

Emerging markets ETFs have been in a sideways trading zone for well over two years. Now, the two most popular emerging markets ETFs are at the cusp of breaking above multi-year double resistance levels.... >> READ MORE...

XLF just soared to new highs not seen since September 2008. Perhaps more interesting than this new high is the pattern of this breakout. Interestingly, this week’s XLF push mimics the June breakout almost tit for tat.... >> READ MORE...