Successful investing requires both a bottom-up and top-down approach. Identifying different stages of the economic cycle is not easy and a calendar-based seasonality approach is more precise and effective. Read More

Volatility exchange-traded products, especially XIV and SVXY, were the primary cause of the recent stock-market correction that dropped stocks more than 10%.   Read More

Blockchain is more exciting than bitcoin, but finding an investable opportunity in blockchain right now is more difficult than many investors understand. Read More

A bearish reversal pattern on Tuesday, January 16th for the S&P 500 suggests some downside through the end of January options expiration week, but the bull should soon return. Read More

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have outperformed stocks by a ton, but there are safer ways to invest in the bitcoin craze than in bitcoin itself. Read More

Selling options can be profitable even if you guess wrong on market direction. That definitely beats betting on the roulette wheel in Vegas. Be the house, not the gambler. Read More

If one knows what to look for, ordinary investors can profit from the rampant stock-market manipulation just like the big boys. The secret involves trading options and analyzing "max pain" stock prices using publicly-available option open-interest data. Read More

My “three-legged stool” analytical approach is one of the best tools there is for predicting the market’s next move, and it doesn't look good going into October 20th options expiration. Read More