What a week! Market breadth has been horrible, sentiment has been very sour, and the Dow Industrials have dropped nearly 1,000 points in just two sessions. Despite the awful market conditions, there have been quite a few safe havens in which to park money in the stock market. Case in point: Altria (NYSE: MO), a…
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No surprise: market sentiment is all over the place. The traders that were not sidelined awaiting Fed policy and Brexit vote news have taken sides – and there is a vast divergence of opinion about market direction and sentiment. The bulls have dug in their heels looking for more upside and new all time highs, while…
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Options Trading Webinar: Long Term Market Analysis With Jeff Hirsch Jeff is editor-in-chief of Stock Trader’s Almanac and a 25 year Wall Street veteran. You might even recognize him from CNBC, Bloomberg, or Fox Business. Here at Explosive Options, we admire him for amazing analytical skills. As a devout market historian, old school market technician…
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The PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund (NASDAQ: DBA) is an ETF, or a proxy for soft and hard commodities – not the stocks that represent them. The DBA Fund includes weightings of cattle, corn, beans, sugar, coffee, wheat and other grains. The fund was created because trading in the individual names can be tricky; it definitely…
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Options Trading Webinar: The Art Of Selling With Marc Chaikin Marc Chaikin joined us for a special options trading webinar on the two critical skills that all traders need to survive and thrive over the long term: selling and risk management. And yes, there is an art to mastering both! Click here to snag the SPECIAL…
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Following the jobs report last week, there is no doubt that the Federal Reserve committee dialed it back significantly from its recent “rate hike rhetoric.” It was only a month ago that the Fed Governors were boldly claiming a rate hike was coming sooner rather than later. This past Friday, they presented a mixed picture…
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Options Trading Webinar: The Fed, Bonds, and Volatility We covered a lot of territory during this options trading webinar! Weighing on everyone’s mind is next week’s Brexit vote, of course, which is leaving traders and investors unsure of what to do. That hesitation is affecting the global markets. We also discussed: The Fed and when…
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I took some time this weekend and studied the SPX500 chart to see if I could glean any insight into a future movement and the overall state of the market. The sad answer is that the chart is doing what it has been doing since April 2015: consolidating within a range between 2040 and 2100.…
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Markets are showing excessive volatility, which is why the Volatility Index, or VIX, is our chart of the week. The markets reflected complacency over the last few months, which helped fuel a rise back up near all time highs. The Dow Industrials even closed over 18K for the first time in months last week –…
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by Abigail Stevenson Mad Money. Dragged down by the gravitational pull of negative European news, home improvement stocks have taken a real beating lately. But Jim Cramer thinks many could be ready to rebound, and even head higher. To gain further insight from the charts, he consulted with Suz Smith of Strategic Portfolio Solutions, the…
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