Frank Barbera, CMT's Contributions

Mar 25 – Taking a look at this very volatile index, we note that it recently made a peak in February and then fell 22% over 14 days into March. If the Creatures of Confidence and the other indices break below...

Feb 9 – For gold there is a lot of resistance in the low $1900 area, between $1900 and $1920, but we believe there is a good chance this resistance will soon be tested and that in the weeks and months ahead, Gold will once again break out to...

By Frank Barbera – With the S&P 500 at 2464, it continues to hover within 1% of a new all-time high. Yet, internally, the market is deteriorating with more and more stocks moving below their 50-day and 200-day moving averages...

By Frank Barbera – It has now been 438 weeks since the March 6, 2009 lows where the NASDAQ has not seen a bear market. That would rank this stretch as the 2nd longest bull run ever. What is most interesting for investors right now is to overlay the current historically...

By Frank Barbera – The composite price action of both markets seems to be pointing to an over-arching conclusion that, at this juncture, we could be seeing a broad distribution pattern tracing out, and that often happens at major tops...

By Frank Barbera – Over the last few years, Gold Mining stocks have carried investors on quite a ride. This observer first started watching the Gold Stock Index back in 1978, when mining stocks were the only game in town. Back then...

By Frank Barbera – Other warning flags can be found in the realm of technical analysis where sentiment readings are among the most bullish values seen in a number of years. These suggest that there is room now for a contrary stance where excess positive sentiment...

With the S&P closing lower on Tuesday, "the market" is now down five of the last six days, and has struggled to form a sustainable short term low. This is the kind of tape action I feared several weeks ago when I wrote the column, "Rolling Defensive" and expressed the idea of bringing down beta (i.e. volatility levels) in the portfolio.

With the major league baseball series now in the championship playoffs, and the World Series dead ahead, this week seemed like a good time for a stock market article with a baseball theme. Of course, baseball games can often last close to three hours, so fans of the sport have to be relatively patient in watching a game, as there is a reasonable investment in time. Just the other day, the Yankee/Angel game went into extra innings extending to 13 innings. What a marathon that was!