Futures Indicate Higher Open to Kick off Thanksgiving Week

US Futures are pointing to a higher open. Headline of the morning shows SCHW intentions to buy AMTD for $26 billion in an all stock deal certainly helps. Expectations are not high for the week of Thanksgiving, but one never knows what is in store for stocks this week....

Small Caps Lead Market Lower

A quiet day for stocks as NYSE and NASDAQ volume fell. Small Cap stocks led the market decline, but losses were contained. Given the move since October a little pause is not out of the question for this market. We will be on the look out for any cracks in the...

Small Caps Avoid Negative Territory as the Dow Slips

The big question here is whether this stock market is heading for the inevitable bear market. Twitter gurus will have you thinking this is the top and we are headed for gloom and doom. Hard to blame people when they are hardwired to be fearful. While we will not argue...

US Stocks Continue to Hit All-Time Highs

We continue to see buyers race to accumulate shares as this bull market powers forward. Volume was higher on Friday indicating institutions were willing to spend their available cash. The Dow led the market higher Friday with the S&P 500 and NASDAQ not too far...

Stocks Inch out Gains

Closing just over the positive side stocks continued their march higher. Volume was up across the exchanges. Gold miners were big winners on the day. GDX and GDXJ had big gains on the day. On the downside we saw Energy related ETFs struggle. Not a bad day for the...

Futures Indicate a Lower Open to Begin Week

A new week and a new opportunity to improve our performance. Futures are indicating a lower open to begin the week and after this most recent push higher this comes as no surprise. We saw last week the bulls take over and active money managers exposure nearing extreme...