We ended the week with a thud, bang, crash pow. So what? The news out of Russia could be blamed but we think not. Margin calls squeezing peoples portfolio, guess again. Economic numbers were weaker than anticipated, for one day? No. The market was down because we are in an emotional period of market dynamics. Earnings have driven things so fa...

Last week we once again saw most major indices reach all time highs and yet there is not that much love in the market. Economic numbers are getting better and the economy seems to be on the right tract. Every time there seems to be a pullback in the wind, winds blow in another direction and the market chugs along to another record. Earnings cont...

Five years ago almost to the very day, the S&P hit it’s bottom. The market had gone into free fall for months and the index touched 676.53. From that point, the S&P has risen more than 177% and recovered all those losses and even returned a small-annualized profit. This bull market we have been in for a good portion of that time has been nothi...

The past week has definitely put investors on edge and after having seen markets reverse course suddenly, it makes you wonder. You wonder if this is a natural pullback, one we see periodically, that gives people an opportunity to reenter the market they might have missed? You wonder if this is something more serious. A correction that begins on s...

There are two important themes running through the markets lately. One we all know about, earnings. The other is the January effect. The earnings so far this year have not been stellar. The financials added a little caution to the mix with some downbeat forecasts for the first quarter and there aren’t too many surprises, which to us, is a sur...