Category Archives: oil prices

Market Timing Brief for the 1-23-2015 Close: SP500 Makes Progress. Gold Ramps. Rates Flat.

A Market Timing Report based on the 1-23-2015 Close, published Monday January 24th, 2015 UPDATE 1-27-2015 11:34 am: SPX bounce is happening at this 15 min chart support line shown in this chart of SPY.  See Twitter/StockTwits for more.  I … Continue reading

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Market Timing Brief™: Without Central Bank Intervention the Summer 2011 Lows Are in Sight

Based on the 6-1-2012 Close published Sunday, 6-3-2012. A pivot point it was!  And did the markets ever pivot down this week with the volatility index (VIX) exploding.  I continued to exit in steps as we just don’t know when … Continue reading

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Market Timing Brief™: Pivot Point

From this week’s market timing report on 5-28-2012 with updates in blue:  For more, please see the free subscription link below. Update 5-30-12:  The gold and silver ETFs (GLD and SLV) are both back testing support and must hold around … Continue reading

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Market Timing Brief™: Treasuries Did Not Budge. So is this Stock Market Rally for Real?

Market Timing Brief™ for 10-18-2011 Treasuries did not budge today.  If this stock rally is for real, they should have shot up in yield, down in price.  Other sectors were listless.  Why wasn’t biotech rallying today?  The VIX is also … Continue reading

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Market Timing Employment: A Stock Market Indicator

The employment trend is murky. On the one hand, the ADP report today said there were 217,000 private sector jobs created from January to February. This would suggest that the employment trend is improving – that further gains could follow. … Continue reading

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