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A better week for stocks though next week will mark some real testing for the market with the September 18 Fed meeting and CPI and PPI numbers coming. The earnings season is beginning to pick up and there will be some headliners particularly in brokerages next week as well. One can draw some confidence from […]
No need for graphs this week. It’s a pretty simple story. Once again, we saw a week of ups and downs with no real trend in any direction. As I mentioned in the last few week in review posts, I see the market as being in a bit of a testing/basing period right now and […]
Quiet week in the markets. As mentioned last week, I believe the markets are entering a testing period. We’ve had our correction and now we’re trying to figure out where to go from here. We’re between earnings cycles and there isn’t a lot of major economic data on the horizon so there are no big […]
Looking at the S&P graph, it seems that, at least for now, volatility has abated and the stock markets are beginning to bottom. We’ve had a good bounce off of the 200 day moving average, MACD has crossed over as has RSI crossed back above 50.
Supporting the idea that the markets may be bottoming […]
While I wrote several posts on creating defensive portfolios, I personally feel that there are many opportunities still available in the current markets and to a degree am very excited about the recent sell off as it should represent a nice buying opportunity. The week began with some moderation in the volatility. The market, overall, […]
It seems that everyone in the blogosphere is abuzz with tips on how to play the current market and, given how volatile the current “repricing of risk” has been, it can never hurt to be up to date on new ideas for your portfolio. As I’ll likely provide my own thoughts on the subject in […]
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