It has been a bad week for most risk assets this week and barring an unexpected sharp recovery today, we may well see some ugly-looking weekly candles to end this week.

When producers extract natural gas from the earth’s crust, the energy commodity is highly combustible. The price action in the natural gas futures arena can be just as volatile because the market has a three-decade history of price explosions and implosions.

The junior mining stocks’ extreme underperformance is the “new normal” that barely anyone talks about. Ignorance is pleasant, but it comes at a cost.

Small cap stocks spent several months charging higher out of the 2020 coronavirus crash lows.

But they have also spent the past several months forming a reversal pattern that is beginning to look like a “U-turn.”

Stocks sold off yesterday as the fear of Fed tapering grew. Monday’s run-up was definitely a bull trap, and our short position is profitable now.

US futures on the Dow, S&P, NASDAQ and Russell 2000 were pressured in the European session on Wednesday as investors sought direction after US stocks slumped during Tuesday’s Wall Street session by the most in a month, following

Oil prices continued slumping on Wednesday, as the market weighed the dollar’s strength compared to other currencies, along with the global rise of coronavirus cases.

It’s been a choppy week for the S&P 500 as opening waves of selling attempted to knock the index from its record-high perch.

Wednesday’s news was not the continued losses from the bearish wedge in the Russell 2000 as such losses have remained contained by the trading range.

The dollar index has been rising steadily now for several weeks. With the Fed’s latest minutes indicating a tapering of asset purchases is near, the greenback may only continue to rally.