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By Michael A. Gayed On October 6 here on Minyanville I made the argument that markets were on the verge of a “Melt-Up” in the fall as market internals I track improved and signaled a sharp advance was to come (see The Most Powerful Reason to Believe in the Fall Melt-Up of 2011). October ended up...

BookingAlpha WHAT IS AN ETF? ETF is short for Exchange Traded Fund. ETF's have exploded in popularity in the last few years due to their flexibility, diversification, and ease of trading. An ETF is a security that tracks and mirrors the performance of an index, commodity, or sector and trades in...

BookingAlpha subscribers have 2 weekly Iron Condors approaching expiration this Friday. The trades are on the SPY and IWM index tracking stocks which have enjoyed quite a run last week and this week already. Earnings continue to be strong and economic data is relatively light this week. This may...

Benzinga staff has developed a list of ETFs that could profit from Europe's blistering winter: 5) Vanguard Energy ETF (NYSE: VDE) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Energy Index Fund. The Fund employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance...

Moody's said it has put Portugal on review for a possible downgrade, according to Reuters article this morning. Moody's downgraded Irish debt on Friday and said on Monday it may cut the ratings on Spanish banks. Spot gold was bid at $1,385/oz in early morning trading, U.S. gold futures for...

This week, Benzinga spoke with NPR's David Kestenbaum and Chana Joffe-Walt, who told an interesting story about the life of an unlikely pet: Toxie. “Toxie was our pet toxic asset at Planet Money,” Joffe-Walt revealed. She said that no one really understood what toxic assets were even though they...

The stock market as been on an up and down ride the past few weeks as investors continue to debate over the health of the economy. Consumer confidence has risen since the bottoms of the credit crisis, but is no where near perfect levels. Unemployment is also rising, but is still north of 9%. Europe...

Have a Happy St Paddy's Day One and All The S&P Large Cap Index ( NYSE:$SPX ) took a big step in the direction of reaching the terminal point of this Bear Market Rally . It will be fitting that the Top will come, I believe, on St Paddy's Day and also a Fibonacci 377 days since the March 6 ,...

The S&P 500 Large Cap Index ( NYSE:$SPX ) spent the day "killing time " with a session close of 1122.97 . The S&P 500 SPDRs ( SPY ) gained 0.34 points to close at 112.64 . There may still be some upside to go but we may have to wait until Monday for that event. It will probably be a "...

The S&P 500 Large Cap Index ( NYSE:$SPX ) and the ETF S&P 500 SPDRs (NYSE: SPY) continued to test new resistances in search of the Top of this Bear Market Rally. In the last session the Index stopped dead at the Fibonacci level 1125.6 . The high of 1125.64 was reached early in the session...