We Were Prepared | Now Is the Time To Keep Your Cool
For the past few months we have been talking about the possibility of the kind of selloff we are experiencing at the moment. Investors became too bullish and too complacent…
Equities get Hammered | What’s Next?
Yesterday was another ugly day for the bulls. At its morning low, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down about 506 points. After a head-fake recovery, it finished the day down…
Is the Equity Market Attempting to Please Everyone?
The equity markets have been sending out mixed signals and trading in a way that does not occur very often. It seems that the price action of the various broad market…
Check out this Hedge against the next Bear move
We find ourselves talking about the performance of the popular equity indexes far more than we typically do. We do this because in fast markets like we are in now,…
That was Close | Time for Correction & Consolidation
I would like to start with another housekeeping note today. We are still having problems with our web hosting service. They cannot seem to install the SSL Certificate properly installed.…
The VortIX
The following is a guest post from Christopher M. Uhl, CMA, MOSM, Editor of 10MinuteStockTrader.Com. Today he shares his thoughts on the VIX and the various VIX ETPs, some of…
Do not make rash decision during this market turmoil.
A couple of housekeeping items before we move on to today's note. Mark will be speaking at the MoneyShow in Orlando, Florida on Saturday. Hope to see all of you there. When…
Looking for the Next Wave
Our modus operandi here at TOE is to discuss the merits of investing in individual companies and commodities. Since bonds are the playground for institutional investors, we discuss opportunities on…
Is the VIX Quietly Telling Us Something or Is It a Head Fake?
The volatility markets tell us something about the cost of speculating on the size of an asset's price move or the lack their of. If an investor thinks a big…
Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday are the Best Days to Own Stocks, Forget Thursday & Friday
The efficient market hypothesis posits that daily share price movements are random and that all stocks are priced with the expectation that the holder of an asset earning a profit…