Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 28.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 22.8% Average Holding Period: 298 days The New Year has not been kind to investors so far. Through the first four trading sessions of 2016, the S&P 500 has declined 4.9 percent—the worst four-day start… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 28.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 22.8% Average Holding Period: 298 days 2015 draws to a close today. This year marked the S&P 500’s first losing year since 2011 and its worst year since 2008. To be fair, in terms of… Read More

As 2015 draws to a close, our stock, bond, and precious metals indicators are all in neutral territory, where they have been for the most part of the last month. Looking at the essentially flat performance of stocks, bonds, and gold over that period, the indicators have been pretty accurate. Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 28.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 22.8% Average Holding Period: 298 days Perhaps appropriate given the unusually warm weather throughout many parts of the country, U.S. stocks have rallied this holiday-shortened week, albeit on typically light seasonal trading volume. With the… Read More

For the first time since a brief occurrence in 2013, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude, the benchmark for domestic oil prices, now trades at a premium to Brent crude, the WTI counterpart for the price of international crude. Before 2013, one would have to go back to 2010 to find… Read More