Today, working on TradingMarkets 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Today, I noticed that the iShares Dow Jones Transportation Index ETF, IYT had made a move below the November lows. Nobody  pays attention to transportation stocks - except for Dow theorists and the market technicians who love them.& ... Read more

Trader and author of The Big Picture blog, Barry Ritholtz asked recently, "Here’s an interesting question: Are videos like this one more likely nearer to tops or bottoms?" He was refering to "Sooner or Later," what he called "video of the year" by a group calle ... Read more

I've sometimes thought of liquidation that occurs during bear markets as akin to those old fables about the over-ambitious offering up their eternal souls for temporal glories.  I'm no liquidationist.  But to see so many of the once-mighty come to ruin as an almost direct result of their ... Read more