Global market commentary  from Interactive Brokers Group traders  and market participants

2015-12-16 16:01 Heidi Richardson Global Investment Strategist BlackRock Macro 4 Simple Actions to Consider After Fed Liftoff The wait is over—in the wake of the first Fed rate hike in nearly a decade, Heidi Richardson explains what you can do now to prepare your portfolio for a rising rate environment. We ... View Article

2015-12-16 15:33 Barron's Options Rate Hike Trend: Loading Up on Bank of America In last-second positioning, Wall Street traders bet that the financial giant's shares surge on Fed news. Bank of America is sizzling in the options market. Investors aggressively bought upside ... View Article

2015-12-16 14:21 Sam Mcbride Stocks Why PE Ratios Are Not A Good Measure Of Value We've pointed out the flaws in the price to earnings (PE) ratio many times before. Chief among these flaws is the fact that the accounting earnings used in the ratio are unreliable for many ... View Article

2015-12-16 13:17 Nasdaq Market Intelligence Desk Stocks Nasdaq Market Intelligence Desk - Equity Market Insight December 16, 2015 Investors are counting down to this afternoon's FOMC rate decision, with equities advancing for the third consecutive day. Crude Oil gapped lower at 10:30am, pulling the energy sector with it. ... View Article

2015-12-16 12:49 Briefing.com Stocks Lakeland (LAKE): Lower on earnings; Despite its best efforts, LAKE still seen as a boom-bust play Lakeland Industries (LAKE), which is down since it was added to our GROWX rankings on October 12 at $14.13 (-14%), is trading 19% lower today following its earnings report last night. Our sense ... View Article

2015-12-16 10:22 Barron's Options As Yum Struggles in China Nimble Traders Can Profit Options sales should pay off as the owner of KFC and Pizza Hut moves to spin off its China business. Investors interested in China's restaurant business can get paid top dollar for trading ... View Article

2015-12-16 09:19 Avi Gilburt Technical Analyst ElliottWaveTrader Technical Analysis Last Chance for a 2015 Bottom First published Sat Dec 12 for members of ElliottWaveTrader.net: As I have said on numerous occasions, there are several patterns that I find hard to rely on in any chart, and one of those is a ... View Article

Global market commentary  from Interactive Brokers Group traders  and market participants

2015-12-02 15:00 Neil Azous Founder & Managing Member Rareview Macro LLC Macro China - A Reform Where Everyone Wins...Except an Issuer For a change there is an interesting dynamic at play in China, and the price action in their local equities deserves mention. As way of background, when a retail investor subscribes to an IPO in ... View Article

2015-12-02 14:21 Thaxston McKee New Constructs, LLC Stocks The Best and Worst of the Small Cap Value Style 4Q15 The Small Cap Value style ranks tenth out of the twelve fund styles as detailed in our 4Q15 Style Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. Last quarter, the Small Cap Value style ranked tenth ... View Article

2015-12-02 13:56 Nasdaq Market Intelligence Desk Stocks Nasdaq Market Intelligence Desk - Equity Market Insight December 2, 2015 The Information Technology sector (+0.31%) is helping the Nasdaq Composite outperform this morning, while Crude Oil declines are pressuring the Energy sector (-1.8%). The US Dollar is back above ... View Article

2015-12-02 13:53 Michael Kramer Member/Founder Mott Capital Management, LLC Technical Analysis Technical Look for 12/2/15 Yesterday the S&P 500 broke free of the wedge formation that had formed over the past month. It appears a new trend began forming as indicated by the little white line all the way to the right ... View Article

2015-12-02 11:26 Briefing.com Fixed Income The Interest Rate Outlook The curve flattening trade persisted in the prior week as market participants grew increasingly confident in the prospect of the Federal Reserve lifting the target range for the federal funds ... View Article

2015-12-02 11:25 Avi Gilburt Technical Analyst ElliottWaveTrader Technical Analysis Black Friday for Gold, Too? First published Sat Nov 28 for members of ElliottWaveTrader.net As many were running out shopping on Black Friday for what they viewed as the "deals of the year," I sat in my office ... View Article

2015-12-02 09:06 Erik Norland Executive Director and Senior Economist CME Group Futures Gold: Useful Portfolio Diversifier? No two investments have louder, more dedicated cheering sections than equities and gold. Equity investors are optimists. They see growth ahead and view their asset class as a means to benefit ... View Article