Category: Charts/Essays/Reports

Money often rotates between the stock market and bond market – the safety of bonds vs. the risk and upside potential of stocks.

The bears have been out in full force lately. Several times since the market bottomed in 2009 they’ve gotten a whiff of a potential downtrend, and they’ve always shown up salivating at the mouth at what finally looked like a chance to show the world everything they had been saying was true – even though […]

With all the up and down movement, the market has been a challenge to trade, but there have definitely been opportunities if you know how to pick your spots. Here are some of our recent trade set-ups. Join Leavitt Brothers, and get institutional-quality analysis and trading ideas at a fraction of the price.

Like the previous two weeks, last week started weak and ended strong, producing long lower tails on the weekly candles. Not for the faint of heart. The market has been noncommittal for several months.

Options expire this week, so let’s check out the open-interest on SPY, QQQ and IWM to see if they hint at movement the rest of the week. Here’s the theory: the market conspires to cause the most pain, to cause the most number of people to lose the most amount of money. If the market […]

At the beginning of January we turned bullish on gold and silver, and followed up our bias by posting numerous set-ups on our Long tradings. While the market has been range bound since, gold and silver stocks have treated us very well. Here are many that were recommended (with a couple extra thrown in).

The Swiss National Bank, which had previously worked tirelessly to suppress the value of its currency, the Swiss franc, decided to end the effort. The franc immediately soared 30% vs. the euro, and the Swiss stock market crashed 10%. This has many ramifications – I’m sure I’ll miss several – so let’s go through them […]

Options expire this Friday, so let’s take a look at the open-interest on SPY, QQQ and IWM to see if they hint at movement the rest of the week. Here’s the theory: the market conspires to cause the most pain, to cause the most number of people to lose the most amount of money. If […]

If you’ve ever wondered what our trading list looks like, here’s a glimpse.

Options expire this Friday, so let’s take a look at the open-interest on SPY, DIA, QQQ and IWM to see if they hint at movement the rest of the week. Here’s the theory: the market conspires to cause the most pain, to cause the most number of people to lose the most amount of money. […]