With the market getting ready to cap out, an impending market correction and unrest in the middle-east many traders have had their eye on the VIX to get some sign of what's going to happen next. Today, the VIX spiked and as you can see the markets are a… more »

I posted Tuesday about the upcoming market correction for 2011. Typically these corrections are said to begin in May. I gave some evidence that it could begin as early as this month. Last year, the first signals of the Spring correction came toward th… more »

Sell in May and go away? An old Wall Street adage use to run as such. Last year I predicted in April that a market correction was soon coming. This doesn't make me a prophet, but I wanted to note this trend again. My prediction was based on a large n… more »

I've just read that my hypothetical scenario about the Fed behaving like a business is unlikely in the opinion of forex analysts. Valuation of the dollar is also due to a perceived increase in the strength of our own economy. Since that is what the Fed… more »

I just find this to be too funny. Despite the US printing more money without substantial increase in goods or services, our dollar keeps rising in value relative to other currencies. Specifically relative to the Euro. The share price of UUP which is a… more »