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  • 70 days of suffering in WalMart
    Posted by on April 24th, 2015 at 3:03 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits Everyone says they’d like to buy blue chips on a pull back. The problem is that it take a lot to disrupt […]

  • Sentiment Flip
    Posted by on November 5th, 2014 at 7:30 am, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits In light of new highs and significant volatility the last couple of weeks, we wanted to take a look ahead at a couple […]

  • Pardon the interruption
    Posted by on October 24th, 2014 at 2:37 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits The chart below is from a report I ran on early in the week while watching, in mild disbelief, the market march higher. […]

  • Wait for the market to flex
    Posted by on October 7th, 2014 at 6:34 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits The jobs report temporarily sent the indices roaring, but under the hood the market lacked breadth. Today we gave back -1.5%. The […]

  • How SPY typically trades after a gap up/down on NFP report
    Posted by on October 2nd, 2014 at 7:23 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits The NFP report (Employment Situation) is released on Friday before the open and here’s what we know: EVERYONE will be watching the report. […]

  • Ebay Monster Gaps
    Posted by on September 30th, 2014 at 12:56 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits $EBAY announced this morning they’re planning on splitting off the Pay Pal division into a separate publicly traded company next year. The […]

  • Ghosts of Death Cross Past
    Posted by on September 23rd, 2014 at 7:45 am, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits A “Death Cross” is a hilariously ominous name for a technical market condition where the 50-day moving average crosses below the 200-day […]

  • Yahoo Strategy Ahead of Alibaba IPO
    Posted by on September 8th, 2014 at 9:01 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits Yahoo retains a 22.4% stake in Chinese e-commerce giant, Alibaba Group Holding. Yahoo’s stock climbed by over 5% on news of  Alibaba’s […]

  • Big Down Days: A Lesson from Recent History
    Posted by on July 31st, 2014 at 11:35 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits The $SPX was off by ~2% today so we ran a study of every time that has happened in the last 4-years. […]

  • Market Cap Arbitrage: SPY vs IWM
    Posted by on July 21st, 2014 at 1:49 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits The spread between domestic large cap stocks ($SPY) and small cap stocks ($IWM) has reached a statistically significant level.  These ETFs have an economic and statistical […]