You certainly see it in life - the losers usually continue to lose. And winners win.

It's the same thing in the stock market. Winners tend to keep on winning, and the...

Bear markets are infamous for their counter-trend rallies.

Breakouts fail, and the charts are painted with false moves.

Throughout this bear market, traders have bought the breakouts to then dump the next day into an illiquid tape.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Yesterday, the $SPX pushed its way through the 50-day moving average at 3,860, then reversed course to close below it.

I mentioned this is a resistance level where the market...

We got a new Form 13D from our favorite corporate raider yesterday, as Carl Icahn revealed  an increased ownership stake in Southwest Gas $SWX.

Icahn now owns 9.8% of outstanding shares, a very slight uptick from the 9.7% he reported on...

I understand the theories about Crypto Currencies being a scam.

"The whole thing is about to fall apart", they tell me.

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Tech did not lead the way higher.

And the indices still chugged along.

From the desk of Willie Delwiche.

“This Is A Test. This Is Only A Test.”

The S&P 500 this...

We continue to be handcuffed by earnings season. Some of the best setups we like right now are in stocks slated to announce earnings over the next week or two. As an options trader, I don't like to position ahead of imminent earnings announcements....

We retired our "Five Bull Market Barometers" in 2020 to make room for a new weekly post that's focused on the three most important charts for the week ahead.

This is...

This week we're looking at the stock from the capital goods sector. Stocks from his sector continue to show strength in a consolidation type of market setup.

This is still the one folks.

I've been in the camp that we're only getting bull markets in stocks around here if the Dollar is falling.

I was talking with a relatively new day trader last night at my twice-monthly trader meetups here in Colorado. We were chatting about stop losses. Or more specifically, his inability to stick to his “mental stop loss levels.”

As you can...

From the Desk of Kimmy Sokoloff

Two heavy hitters, $GOOGL and $MSFT, reported last night, and they both traded lower after hours.

Futures seem to be holding steady.

The largest insider transaction on today’s list was reported in a Form 4 filing by the Swiss investment company BB Biotech AG.

The biotechnology-focused fund reported a purchase worth roughly $2.2 million in MacroGenics $MGNX.