The S&P 500 just nailed the best January gain since 1997 and 2013 forecasts are quite positive. Although the 'Great QE Bull Market' may not yet be over, seasonality suggests a rocky February.... >> READ MORE...

A rising tide lifts all boats and liquidity buoys all asset classes. That's great, but it's not diversification. In fact, it presents a whole new type of hidden risk. Many 'diversified' portfolios today would fail miserably at any sort of Black Swan event.... >> READ MORE...

Contrarian investors love to use sentiment as a general overbought/oversold measure. There's no denying that Wall Street and Main Street have surrendered to the allure of higher prices, but just how much of a threat does bullish sentiment pose right now?... >> READ MORE...

AAPL is down 35% while the Nasdaq is moving higher and the S&P 500 is trading at new recovery highs. Is this bullish for the broad market or will 'a bad Apple spoil the whole bunch?'... >> READ MORE...

Corporate America has never before seen higher profits than now. Are healthy profits a reflection of a healthy economy or have earnings reached a point of unsustainability?... >> READ MORE...

Investors have no clue what goes on behind closed doors at Wall Street banks and the Federal Reserve. But once and a while a juicy piece of information (probably overlooked by censors) provides a glimpse of Wall Street's carefully guarded secrets.... >> READ MORE...

The December 2, Profit Radar report predicted new recovery highs, but warned that: "Any new recovery high marked by a bearish price/RSI divergence could mark the end of this rally." That's exactly where we're at now.... >> READ MORE...

For four years the Nikkei's performance has been flat as a pancake, but recent price action suggests that the time of boredom is over. A technical breakout looks to support the agenda of Japan's new Prime Minister.... >> READ MORE...

Wow! Apple, the world's largest company lost 31.6% of its market capitalization since mid-September. This week's new price low showed the first real bullish divergence. Is AAPL's decline over, at least for now?... >> READ MORE...

Because of a slew of earnings reports, this has been called "the week of truth" for the financial sector. However, a deeper look at the sector shows that big bank earnings reports are at best symbolic. One could even say that the whole ritual is utterly deceptive.... >> READ MORE...