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Here are updated charts for what we might call the breadth of market strength and weakness.  (Raw data from the excellent Stock Cha...

Here are the reasons I am cautious about the stock market at this juncture: 1)  We are seeing good buying activity in stocks, ...

I noticed that Bruce Bower, via SMB, has posted on the topic of what a winning trading methodology looks like and has released an e-book...

I noticed a couple of good articles on Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski in the wake of Duke's win for the 2015 NCAA championship.  The firs...

*  This time is different?  Money flow into the SPY index ETF has notably dwindled during 2015 after having tracked price pretty well for...

Thanks to a savvy trader for pointing out this Lewis Howes podcast with Eric Greitens on the topic of resiliency and falling in love wit...

We've all known traders who lack self-control.  They react rather than act, making decisions impulsively, often based on those twin f...

Hurdles seem small when we're on top of our game, and they can feel insurmountable when we're not.  The best traders I've kno...

Above is a chart of CBOE options skew for the S&P 500 Index from 2014 to the present.  The skew index measures the degree to which i...

Has the U.S. stock market been strong or weak so far in 2015?  As the above three charts from the excellent FinViz site indicate, ...

Strangely, I find that traders who describe themselves as visual--i.e., they make extensive use of chart displays of prices and indicator...

*  I've found it helpful to track the correlations among the various sectors of the SPX by using creating an overall correlation inde...

If you've followed the blog for a while, you know that tracking the number of stocks across all exchanges making fresh one- and three...

A portfolio manager I recently met with was stressed out, frazzled from long--and frustrating--hours of following overseas markets.  He w...

Coach K has it right: a finger by itself is far less powerful than five fingers joined into a fist.  When a championship basketball team ...

As we can see from the above chart, which tracks the five-day moving average of VIX versus the SPX for the past three years, important lo...

For this post, I reflected on the traders I've worked with who have been particularly successful and some of their common practices. ...

One of the limitations of reviewing our trading and constructing plans based on our reviews is that our look back usually is tainted by w...