We like to think of ourselves as ethical investors all year round at Minyanville. But did you know this is official National Ethical Investment Week and an estimated $2.71 trillion can be characteriz

As far as I can tell, I haven't yet posted about the use of Bollinger bands in conjunction with a rate of change (ROC) indicator to identify volatility breakouts. In summarizing the action in the VIX

November marks a year since Direxion introduced its Daily Financial Bull 3X Shares (FAS), Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares (FAZ), and a handful of other 3x and -3x friends. We don't mention these pups

Yesterday’s 12% jump in the VIX lifted the volatility index to 13.8% above its 10-day simple moving average. As noted on a number of occasions here, when the VIX is at least 10% above its 10-da

  Those who hate robocalls but are too lonely to sign up on the National Do Not Call Registry are in for a treat. Starting September 1,

Editor's Note: The following article was written by Raymond James Chief Investment Strategist Jeff Saut. It has been reproduced with permission for the benefit of the Minyanville community.&ldq

Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Don Fishback, of Don Fishback's Market Report.On Monday, Bespoke Investment Group -- which probably has one of the most impressive stock-market databases around

Risky assets last week again marched higher to the tune of economic data supporting the argument of a global economic recovery. A realization among investors that the economic transition from recessi

Last week, caution crept back into investors’ vocabularies for the first time in more than 3 months as they faced up to President Barack Obama’s plan to reform the US financial marke

Wow. This week marks a year of sharing my trading thoughts here in the ‘Ville. And what a year it's been! We navigated through some incredible, breathtaking, historical moves in the market