S tock traders and investors often look for seasonal, historical stock-market patterns to guide investment decisions. One ...

T he January seasonal trade is usually one of the year’s best seasonal trades (right behind the October seasonal). The trade ...

Monday morning’s gap created a bearish “island reversal” pattern, a multi-day pattern in which a gap higher is followed by consolidation and a gap lower. It was the second time since November that ...

But Monday through Wednesday’s trading came before a payrolls ... reason than last week, is the 10-day, buy-to-open put/call volume ratio on SPX components. In the context of the SPX failing ...

In a sense, last week’s trading might be best defined ... Nonetheless, the SPX managed to find support at its 50-day moving average at Friday’s low. At the end of the prior week, the index ...