Folks, I’m making my way back to Chicago today after taking part in yesterday’s Biz 880 Miami Money Expo. Big thanks to Bull & Bear Institute, Currensee, Daniel “The MoneyMan” Frishberg, Charles Schwab and everyone who came out for making the event a rousing success. All the presentations and breakout sessions on stocks, futures, real [...]

Folks, the market looks like it might be in a bit of trouble today. I warned you earlier this week about end-of-month activity that would come into play—portfolio managers start playing with their positions and putting up window dressing to approve the appearance of their holdings. At the same time, Europe is still hanging on [...]

Folks, today is the first day of both the last week of the month and the last week of the 3rd quarter. In addition to the normal end-of-month activity, a great deal of OTC options and listed options activity comes due and goes off on Friday—it’s almost like a second expiration. The action and volatility [...]

Folks, I’m 50 years old. I’ve been around a bit. I know a campaign speech when I see it, and last night, when the president unveiled his latest plan to create jobs and boost the economy, it was the official launch of his reelection campaign. They even moved it up so Americans wouldn’t miss the [...]

Folks, I may be out at The Money Show in San Francisco catching up with my good friends at Bull & Bear Institute and Investor’s Business Daily, but that doesn’t mean I’m not trying to figure out what’s going with all this market volatility. And in my analysis, I noticed something that I think is [...]

Folks, the earnings reports keep coming in and corporations keep on beating the Street. GE, Chrysler, Xerox, Verizon and McDonalds are just a few of the companies that topped estimates, much to the delight of the market. Caterpillar missed by a just a little, but by and large, corporations are reporting very good profits. While [...]