Anavex Life Sciences – Chart Of The Day

Anavex Life Sciences – Chart Of The Day

The Chart of the Day is Anavex Life Sciences (OTCQX:AVXL). I found the biopharmaceutical stock by using Barchart to sort for the stocks with a Weighted Alpha of higher than 50.00+ and technical buy signals of 80% or better. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 10/2 the stock gained 18.75%. The Company is an emerging biopharmaceutical company […]
REIT’S (VNQ) Breaking Out?…

REIT’S (VNQ) Breaking Out?…

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT’s) have had a tough go of it in 2015. As the threat of higher short term rates looms overhead. I’m using the Vanguard REIT index fund (VNQ) in the chart above, which shows the prior retrace rallies have come in the vicinity of $7 off the lows. Here at $77 […]
The Courage To Act, Or Not

The Courage To Act, Or Not

Podcast: Play in new window | Play in new window (Duration: 13:16 — 6.1MB)  DOW + 304 = 16,776 SPX + 35 = 1987 NAS + 73 = 4781 10 YR YLD + .07 = 2.06% OIL + .72 = 46.26 GOLD – 2.50 = 1136.90 SILV + .40 = 15.77 The Dow Industrial Average has gone from a […]
Failure To Launch

Failure To Launch

The popular belief that the U.S. economy has been steadily recovering has endured months of disappointing data without losing much of its appeal. A deep bench of excuses, ranging from the weather to the Chinese economy, has been called on to justify why the economy hasn’t built up any noticeable steam, and why the Fed […]
Binary Options Trading Opportunities For October 6, 2015

Binary Options Trading Opportunities For October 6, 2015

During the session on Tuesday, there aren’t many economic announcements to move the market, and we believe that as a result it will be very technically driven during the session. With this, we take a look directly at the charts. USD/JPY ready to make a move? The USD/JPY might be one of the exceptions in […]
Gold Daily And Silver Weekly Charts – Silver Rallies, Gold Capped

Gold Daily And Silver Weekly Charts – Silver Rallies, Gold Capped

Silver led the way higher for the precious metals today as gold was capped at the 1140 level. The Gold/Silver ratio has dropped a bit but is still quite high at 72. There was little action at The Bucket Shop except for the usual slow bleed of bullion out of the warehouses as is shown […]
SGU ATNY LHCG Sell Signals For October 5, 2015

SGU ATNY LHCG Sell Signals For October 5, 2015

Today I deleted Star Gas Partners (NYSE:SGU), API Technologies (NASDAQ:ATNY) and LHC Group (NASDAQ:LHCG) from the Barchart Van Meeerten Speculative portfolio for negative price momentum. Star Gas Partners Barchart technical indicators: 80% Barchart technical sell signals Trend Spotter sell signal Below its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages 17.94% off its 52 week high Relative Strength Index 32.71% Recenlty traded at 8.14 […]
Three Small Caps To Help Weather A Bear Market

Three Small Caps To Help Weather A Bear Market

The third quarter of 2015 was a bad one for the market. The S&P 500 fell 7%, its worst performance in four years. In the third quarter of 2011, the S&P 500 dropped 14%. It then rallied in the fourth quarter to finish the year exactly where it started. If you include dividends, you made […]
The Phrase That Initiates Recessions

The Phrase That Initiates Recessions

It Can’t Get Any Worse? On Friday, shortly after the release of the payrolls report, we asked half in jest whether the time had finally come for the market to interpret bad news as bad news, and not as an opportunity to speculate on more central bank largesse. As someone remarked to us later: “You had to […]
A Long For A Change

A Long For A Change

It’s been so long that I’ve actually suggested a bullish chart, I thought I’d break my own trend and do so: here is one of the very few charts that looks like a good, strong long pattern: Boyd Gaming.