Comparing the VIX with the S&P 500 Past Performance

While I don’t trade the VIX often because of my lack of Options trading experience, I do take a look at it every so often.

I thought now would be a good time to add a post comparing the VIX with the S&P 500 past performance as the VIX can be used as …

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What's Gold's Next Stop?

Here’s the latest video analysis from the folks over at Market Club.

As you can tell by the headline, it’s about Gold, which they like to follow closely throughout the year.

For quite some time now they’ve been calling for Gold to move higher and have been right on.

Go ahead and …

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S&P 500 Morning Update 11-11-2009

A quick S&P 500 morning update to point out the current price level and some observations.

The move so far this morning is what should be expected for “Hump Day”. That is, rising up to the top, climaxing, and then “rolling over” the hump.

The “hump” of course being today, Wednesday, midweek.

Taking …

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S&P 500 Update 11-09-2009

Here’s an S&P 500 update analysis through the end of the trading day today.

On my last post I mentioned to be on the lookout for a possible Head and Shoulders pattern in the stock market forming, specifically the S&P 500. Today’s large move higher put’s the odds of this pattern happening at …

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Another Head and Shoulders Pattern in the Stock Market?

Is another Head and Shoulders pattern forming in the stock market ($SPX or S&P 500 for this post)?

Late yesterday I heard someone mention that a possible head and shoulders pattern could be forming in the major market indices.

When I heard this I remembered the last time people were talking about the …

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Stock Market Update 10-30-2009

Yesterday I posted a stock market update using the S&P 500 and included a chart with some patterns identified.

The levels I mentioned in that post have been violated to the downside, with considerable volume and Advance/Decline Issues currently near 25%/75%.

I mentioned that “As the current position of the S&P 500 displayed on …

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S&P 500 Update 10-29-2009

The S&P 500 finished today with another close higher after 4 previous down days in a row.

It seems every other day the news changes course and the market swings back and forth, not knowing which way it should continue.

The one thing that is certain from looking at the chart below is that …

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