Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT’s) have had a tough go of it in 2015. As the threat of higher short term rates looms overhead. I’m using the Vanguard REIT index fund (VNQ) in the chart above, ...
The popular belief that the U.S. economy has been steadily recovering has endured months of disappointing data without losing much of its appeal. A deep bench of excuses, ranging from the weather to t...
During the session on Tuesday, there aren’t many economic announcements to move the market, and we believe that as a result it will be very technically driven during the session. With this, we take ...
Silver led the way higher for the precious metals today as gold was capped at the 1140 level. The Gold/Silver ratio has dropped a bit but is still quite high at 72. There was little action at The Buck...
Today I deleted Star Gas Partners (NYSE:SGU), API Technologies (NASDAQ:ATNY) and LHC Group (NASDAQ:LHCG) from the Barchart Van Meeerten Speculative portfolio for negative price momentum. Star ...
The third quarter of 2015 was a bad one for the market. The S&P 500 fell 7%, its worst performance in four years. In the third quarter of 2011, the S&P 500 dropped 14%. It then rallied in the ...
It Can’t Get Any Worse? On Friday, shortly after the release of the payrolls report, we asked half in jest whether the time had finally come for the market to interpret bad news as bad news, and n...
It’s been so long that I’ve actually suggested a bullish chart, I thought I’d break my own trend and do so: here is one of the very few charts that looks like a good, strong long pattern: Boy...
Everything must be awesome, right!!! This 5-day run is even bigger than the ramp off the October 2014 Bullard lows… This is the biggest 2-day short-squeeze since October 2011 (the last time ...