As the commodity sector gets hit one by one, starting with coal producers, then oil drillers, then precious metals miners, there is one sector that has gotten less press than the others – agriculture. Crop …
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Precious metals are getting walloped again today, continuing a vicious downtrend that has been in place since July. That also happens to be when the U.S. dollar started on its very strong run, which has …
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Regular readers of RiskReversal know that we are NOT the “I told you so” guys, but… One of our trades earlier in the year was buying shares of Twitter (TWTR) prior to their Q2 results …
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Headline-heavy Tesla has had a bout of selling today after a WardsAuto.com report that U.S. sales fell significantly in September, and that the company was offering new incentives. Some analysts have come out to call …
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With today’s rally, the S&P 500 index is now down only about 1% for the month of October. That’s quite incredible considering that the index was down more than 7% for the month just last …
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QIHU is one of the huge momentum leaders in 2013 and early 2014 that has been smacked in the past 2 months. The stock was a favorite among investors looking to get exposure to the …
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I am gonna keep this real simple. In the month’s leading up to Markets in Turmoil 2014™ there was much talk of the divergence between large cap and small cap stocks, as the Russell 2000 …
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This week’s outperformance of IWM over SPY has been notable considering that small cap relative weakness had been a theme of this market for the past 6 months. In fact, IWM is up about 3% …
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Early in today’s session, GILD fell 8% in 20 minutes, an incredibly steep selling cascade for a $150 billion market cap company: This type of price action wouldn’t be that surprising in a $5 billion …
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The chart of the VIX over the last 2 years shows 4 instances prior to this morning’s open where the index closed above the long term avg of 20 (red line) with 8 tests of …
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