Welcome to 2012, folks! Before the holiday I broke down what I believe will be the three keys for investors to watch going into the new year. As you know, I’m a glass-half-full kind of guy, so on this first trading day of the year I wanted to go through three sectors that I think [...]

Today is flip-flop day. I’m not talking about shoes you’d wear to the beach, I’m talking about the day when the front month of the S&P futures contract moves from December to March. Any of you who are players in the futures market on a day-to-day basis know that on flip-flop day, there’s a lot [...]

Folks, before we get started here, I want to let you know that I’ll be hosting a FREE webinar at 4:30pm ET today called, “Unleash Your Capital Potential!” In it, I’ll be doing an apples-to-apples comparison between futures and ETFs, including the differences in leverage and risk. If you own ETFs, especially ETFs that track [...]

Folks, pardon the pun, but gold is melting again. And when I say gold, I mean the front-month futures contract, not ETFs—real gold, not a worthless piece of paper. If you’re still trading commodities ETFs, I implore you to get rid of the garbage and look into the inherent advantages of the futures market. Elliott [...]

Folks, prepare yourselves for another week of volatility. Markets historically sleep in a little leading up to Labor Day, and complicating things further is the big financial summit at Jackson Hole on Friday. This conference is huge: Last year, the Fed chair announced his QE2 stimulus plan there, and the markets are already anticipating something [...]

Folks, my good friend, Jeff Carter, joined me on the broadcast today. Jeff is an independent trader who’s also a commentator for CNBC, Bloomberg and Fox. He writes the wonderful blog pointsandfigures.com, which I highly recommend. Years ago he and I sat on the board of the CME together, where we helped usher in the electronic [...]

Folks, this week is all about the three E’s: earnings, expiration and equilibrium. Earnings. Look at Target, look at Wal-Mart, look at Dell. Take a look at the S&P retail index, off an all-time high but still on a tear. Earnings are by and large beating the Street. The death of the U.S. consumer has [...]

Folks, looking at the markets today, futures are down, commodities are down. The market continues to correct itself after that parabolic move, and it’s really shed light on what I see as a reoccurring problem that needs to be addressed. I’m talking an entire world of people trading ETFs and not understanding what they’re trading. [...]

Folks, as I mentioned yesterday, I went out to Las Vegas to attend The Money Show. It was a great time. I’m always happy to see a few thousand people congregate to learn more about the financial services industry that used to be such a mystery. I talked to a lot of people while I [...]

Folks, on today’s program I talked extensively about the advantages of futures over exchange traded funds, or what’s commonly called an ETF. An ETF is basically a security that tracks an index, or a commodity, or any basket of assets. They’re derivatives—products created from other products—and they’re traded like a stock. ETFs are quite a [...]