Monthly ranges and Vix averages

Tasty trade on the 7/30 show of What Else Ya Got performed some research on the average range of the market (I think its on the SPX). Mont...

market at pivotal point

7/1 The SPX has been building up on the head and shoulder pattern that goes back to the beginning of the year. The neckline near the 1040-10...

Dow drops almost 1000 points

The DOW had the largest point drop EVER, however in percentage terms the move isn't that move compared to an event like the 1987 crash. ...

Market correction 5/4

5/4 The market corrected the most since February. The RUT had a pullback of more than 3%. Some of the indices broke the uptrend line. Volum...

market update 4/18

This past Friday, the markets has its first greater than 1 percent move down in a while. As I read the various blogs out there. There appear...

market update

3/31/2010 The 1st quarter of the 2010 is done. I had a very bad month, due to my continued failure to exit on a lost. The markets rallied re...

market 12/21

12/21 The market across the board rallied over 1%. My RUT Jan 620/330 call vertical spread is running into trouble if the market continues t...

10/27 market analysis

10/27 Finally this market begins to pull back from the almost nonstop rally up from the march lows. I put the positions on when the markets ...

9/21 update

These few weeks have been one of the most fustrating trading markets due to the one way market,which has been up almost everyday without any...

Got into September positions

9/9/9 Notice the date. Lets see if this month I will be able to do better than last month, especially with managing the trades if it goes ag...

closed August expiration positions

8/20 I closed my RUT 530/540 Call spread and my IBM 115/120Call spread at the maximum loss. These positions went completely against me. I...

Market drop today?

8/19 The Shanghai and Asian markets dropped overnight. The Shanghai market has fallen almost 20% from the top. Bloomberg is taking about a b...

jobless number

8/7 The unemployment numbers came out today. It was down to 9.4% from 9.5%. The Nonfarm Payrolls - M/M change was -247K. It was much less th...

Is the falling dollar driving the stock market up?

Barry Ritholtz from the big picture had this interesting comment on the cause of the recent market rally. Actually the comment came from Art...

Market keeps going up and not letting up

8/4 Being completely short, I'm beginning to feel the pain with the market's relentless move up since July 13th. I failed to follow ...

Feeling the blues

7/23 The market has been rallying almost nonstop in the past ten days. My short portfolio has been taking a beating. These past few days has...

Market strength not letting off steam

7/22 The market has been going up almost everyday for the past 10 days without any pullback. This reminds me of the times earlier in the yea...

CIT - Another century old company fails?

WSJ reported in that CIT has $1B due in mid-August and may fail for bankruptcy. CIT received $2.3B in TARP funds, but failed to get approval...

Market update -staying neutral waiting for market for direction

Market recovery? If we look at the copper and crude prices, we can use these two commodities as a barometer of the recovery. Copper has pull...

Fan of Jack Bouroudjian

Jack Bouroudjian appeared on thinkorswim's wednesday chat . I really enjoyed and learned more about money flows into futures and indexes...