Humans have a natural tendency to follow the crowd, but when timing the markets, following the crowd can often result in losses. Unless you are in the middle of a long term trend, it usually doesn't work to conform to the masses. Expert market timers...

November 20, 2009 The S&P 500 Index (SPX), and it’s tracking ETF the S&P Deposit Receipts (NYSE: SPY), both reached new closing highs this week, but on Thursday, November 19, both reversed and erased all their weekly gains. This same pattern...

November 19, 2009 Shares of Streettracks Gold (NYSE: GLD) have pushed above resistance at $109.04 and closed at $112.25 on Wednesday, November 18. As chartists, we look to the next resistance level as the potential target when a resistance level has...

November 18, 2009 Shares of Biotech HOLDRS (AMEX: BBH) declined some 13% in just over two weeks in the last half of October and 15% from their rally high at $104.87 reached on July 30. Is it time to buy? Shares of this widely followed biotech ETF...

November 17, 2009 Shares of Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) have erased their late October losses and on Monday, November 17, closed at a new rally and new all-time high. A month ago we wrote: “Apple is approaching their all-time highs which are likely to...