Light Volume Selling Opens the Week

Light volume Mondays are not an outlier event, but with the price declines Monday was not the way bulls wanted to start the week. QQQs saw higher volume than Friday, as the ETF tracking the NASDAQ 100 stocks closed below its 50 day moving average. SPY on the hand had...

Yellen Valuation Comments help Push Market Lower

A day after we entered into a sell mode the market continue to sell off in mixed trade.  Volume ended just lower on the NYSE, but nearly 6% higher on the NASDAQ.  IBD joined in on the correction mode as it flipped its model into correction mode.  Leading stocks...

A Wild Ride as Stocks Close Mixed

A pop at the open was quickly erased as sellers rushed into the market pushing to the lows of the session.  Case-Shiller home prices showed some decent gains helping ease some of the premarket selling in futures.  The selling came fast and furious, but in this...

Nasty outside Reversal Casts Shadow over Markets

Early morning rise in futures and subsequent open to the market eventually caved and ushered in heavy volume selling.  Markit released its PMI reading and it was slightly weaker than expected, but did not hold back the equity markets from rallying just after the...

Stocks End Mixed; Russell 2000 Snaps Back

After a bout of selling this morning the stock market was able to rebound.  During the morning’s selling the VIX really did not jump as if there was a ton of fear in the market.  We do have a jobs report tomorrow, but was it anticipation of Yom Kippur ushering in...