Category: Dow Jones
DJIA Down Thanksgiving to Yearend Up Big Following Year
With the DJIA down in December, a usually stellar market month, and also down from the Friday after Thanksgiving to yearend, folks on The Street are getting concerned. (Last year […]
Fear of the Fed may cause stock pullback this week
While the S&P has gone up sharply over the last 8 trading days and some of the fear is removed, many traders are still saying the markets are in trouble […]
Up or down? Decision time for the S&P 500 and stocks
After the S&P had its largest jump in more than a year and and the Nasdaq rose the most since January 2013, the markets took a breather. Yesterday the S&P […]
Mutual Fund Monday and the QCHA
It was a bad day for the stock market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI:DJI) closed down -0.60%, the S&P 500 cash (^GSPC:SNP) closed down -0.80%, the Nasdaq Composite closed […]
Nasdog charts: CORN HOG SPUDOW
4,000 Kernals of Corn ears? It’s massive. Can we use corn instead of salt on the roads? I’m kidding [Ed. note: Alan Palmer is a working CBOT trader, not a […]
Ukraine, Iraq weigh on stocks as they test resistance
Risk will alway be a part of trading the S&P 500 futures. Whether it’s a domestic economic releases, a comment by the Fed or the Russian amy doing high-tech military […]
Dow Hits 17,000
The Dow Jones Industrial Average breached 17,000 for the first time in its history today. The index has seen exponential growth since the bull market began in 1982, interrupted by three major crashes —the most dramatic of which, on Oct. 19, 1987, had the least long-term impact.
S&P 500 up 11 of 13: Will it ever go down?
The second half of 2014 started out with a bang with the S&P (SNP:^GSPC) closing at another new record high and the Dow closing in on 17,000. As we have […]
End of second quarter chop
The last trading day of the second quarter went off without a hitch; the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI:^DJI) closed up 25.24 points or +0.10%.The S&P 500 index (SNP:^GSPC) rose […]
It’s Just A Brand New Second Half For $DIA $SPY $QQQ
With the first half of 2014 winding down let’s have a look ahead to the second half and beyond.