by Michael Vodicka | Mar 12, 2011 | All Updates, S&P 500 Stocks, Weekly Update
If the market was an obstacle course this week, it would have been called the gauntlet. Let’s take a quick look at what we saw. 1.) Political tension escalating in Libya as key oil ports are bombarded with rockets. 2.) China reports its second monthly trade deficit in...
by Michael Vodicka | Mar 6, 2011 | All Updates, S&P 500 Stocks, Weekly Update
It is most definitely all about oil. That’s what the market told us this week as stocks stayed volatile on crude’s bullish close above $104 on Friday. The latest round of “how high can oil go, cha-cha-cha” comes at a precarious time, just as the economy produces its...
by Michael Vodicka | Feb 27, 2011 | All Updates, S&P 500 Stocks, Weekly Update
Hello volatility. It was another wild week for the market, with stocks posting their first 3-day drop in nine months before rebounding on Friday to ease the pain. The only sector that finished up on the week was energy, lifted by the biggest move in crude in over two...
by Michael Vodicka | Feb 20, 2011 | All Updates, S&P 500 Stocks, Weekly Update
We left off last week talking about the market being at a 2-year high. That means stock prices are up big over the last 24 months, with the Dow and S&P500 almost doubling from the bottom in March of 2009. But just because stocks are up doesn’t mean they are...
by Michael Vodicka | Feb 13, 2011 | All Updates, S&P 500 Stocks, Weekly Update
We’ve spent the last few weeks dissecting our favorite sectors and analyzing our top picks in each category, so it looks like a good time to shift gears and see how the portfolio is coming together. When you are talking about building a portfolio, you have two primary...
by Michael Vodicka | Jan 29, 2011 | All Updates, S&P 500 Stocks, Weekly Update
When I was working on the trading floor a few years ago, oil had just started trading electronically. It was a big deal in the world of trading because oil had always been closely guarded, accessible only through a very tight network of insiders at the exchanges. But...
