I saw this headline this week and was reminded how often financial concepts are taken out of context: “The VIX is Soaring!” The VIX is a measure of volatility, and investors who watched their accounts bounce around the past week might have felt that statement was true. But, really, is …
Continuing onward and upward! And even though the Dow Jones Industrial average crossed 17,000 this week, we believe it will be much more important to see the S&P500 rise above 2000. Since the beginning of the year, we’ve felt the market bias was positive and would reward those who …
So far, 2014 has turned out to be a lot of nothing to write home about. Last year, the S&P 500 ended just below 1850 (see chart below). For most of the year, we’ve been stuck bouncing around in a narrow range (indicated by the horizontal blue lines). Five months …
So far, 2014 has been a complete rollercoaster. After a sad start to the year and a small sell-off in January, we got a nice rebound, recently getting back to new record highs on the S&P500. Strength in Technology and Healthcare have remained constant, though. What we found more interesting, …
I have to say we’ve had it pretty easy for the past couple of years. We’ve been long overdue for a correction and it looks like we are getting one. Our more conservative strategies have been positioned for this move. Some of our more aggressive strategies took action last week …
It feels like October 2007 all over again: We saw new market highs, retail investors are feeling like they’ve missed the boat and are getting more interested in taking on more risk. That was my initial impression on October 1 of this year. However, since the US Government shutdown and …
August turned out to be an interesting month for the markets overall. Each potential turn-around was thwarted by negative news events, mostly relating to Syria. “The US is going to attack Syria! …No, wait. Not now, but soon! Ok, Dad (England) says NO so let’s ask Mom (US Congress)…” and …
