Another Election passes and Stocks jump Higher

The morning gap higher was looking quite promising for this market. French elections, or at least the first round had passed and the world did not end. Funny. While the gains were solid this market is far less impressive when you peek behind the curtain. Today’s...

Morning Musings: Is the Stock Market Ready to Run?

After yesterday’s big market run it begs the question are we going to see another big market run? A big positive yesterday was IWM breaking back above its 50 day moving average. The ETF has been within a consolidation range for quite some time. It continues to...

Small Caps Gain, but Broad Market Struggles

Commentary is going to be short. Dealing with illness is never fun. We continue to see a market struggling to find its footing. Today’s session started off great. However, sellers took over. The Dow was weighed down by IBM after it reported its 20th consecutive...

Stocks Retreat as Volume Surges

Not a real surprise to see volume jump higher than Monday’s session. After all, Monday’s volume was the lightest all year. For much of the day stocks struggled to maintain any sort of buying momentum from Monday’s session. The Dow struggled with...

Lackluster Session as Trump Trashes Dollar

Stocks once again faced sellers and produced a lackluster session as Trump hammers the dollar. Global tensions are on the rise as North Korea and Syria are in pundits’ focus. Price action is quite unstable here and even though we saw a bullish end-of-day yesterday we...