Monthly Archives: May 2012

May18

Some stats on this selloff – it has taken the S&P 500 all the way back to levels last seen on 1/18.  NASDAQ 1/19, and the Russell 2000 is back to 1/9 levels – almost as if the year never…

May18

Morning "strength", afternoon selling – the pattern continues.  One of these afternoons there will be a late day reversal to the upside and should be the 'sign' people are looking for that short term bounce.  Could be today … but…

May18

The market is volatile today but in a relatively small range.  Everyone is looking for the trademark reversal into the close that one of these days will mark a short term bottom.   I will say the index is hiding…

May18

I am obliged by the laws of financial blogging to do a post somehow relating to Facebook (FB), and since almost every angle on Earth has been examined on this company, I thought I'll do a fun one.   According…

May18

Yesterday morning I wrote the market needed a "flush" and we definitely saw one.  The last of the holdout sectors such as housing, REITs, and even some of the most defensive names were raided.   That said, a close on…