Marty Chenard

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• Charts and Commentary

  Published 09 September 2006 | viewed 4,124 times

  Today, we will stay with looking at the VIX (Volatility Index) versus the S&P 500. By now, you can see the importance of the VIX's…

• Charts and Commentary

  Published 29 August 2006 | viewed 4,202 times

  Sorry for the delay this morning. Our server in Texas maxed out at capacity and we had to delete some files in order to make…

• Charts and Commentary

  Published 25 August 2006 | viewed 3,891 times

  Since Institutional investors control billions of dollars in the markets, its a good idea to check what they are doing and what is happening to…

• Charts and Commentary

  Published 08 August 2006 | viewed 4,426 times

  Last week, I told our paid subscribers that the Institutions were doing hedged buys while their sell-trend was still in place. I said that this…

• Charts and Commentary

  Published 04 August 2006 | viewed 5,404 times

  Today we will look at BOTH ... our Fear Index and the VIX (Volatility Index) because they both are indicators of fear or confidence. Below…

• Charts and Commentary

  Published 27 July 2006 | viewed 4,266 times

  Today is a tip day on investing ... The TICK is an indicator that measures the NYA Index (New York Stock Exchange) and provides an…

• Charts and Commentary

  Published 19 July 2006 | viewed 5,413 times

  This is a market where fear and brave emotions are high ... BOTH at the same time. The fearful who did not go to cash…

• Charts and Commentary

  Published 07 July 2006 | viewed 4,251 times

  I dislike redundancy like many of you, but sometimes there are key market factors that are important enough to revisit and stay on top of.…

• Charts and Commentary

  Published 23 June 2006 | viewed 4,609 times

  The charts and analyses that we share with you on this free website are quite different than what we give our paid subscribers. On occasion,…

• Charts and Commentary

  Published 17 June 2006 | viewed 4,097 times

  I had a subscriber call about the Fear Index yesterday and we had a good discussion about the impact of fear levels on another dimension…

• Charts and Commentary

  Published 06 June 2006 | viewed 4,583 times

  Is the NASDAQ on shaky ground? August 2004 ... April 2005 ... and June 2006 are important NASDAQ 100 dates. Why? Because these dates represent…

• Charts and Commentary

  Published 16 May 2006 | viewed 5,632 times

  In spite of the market moving down, the Indexes are still holding some important support levels as we will see today. First, the DOW. Note…

• Charts and Commentary

  Published 12 May 2006 | viewed 4,804 times

  A nasty down day yesterday brought investors a little deeper into the fear mode. Our Fear Index had its fast green indicator move down to…

• Charts and Commentary

  Published 05 May 2006 | viewed 4,135 times

  If you go back to 2001, large divergences between the Russell 2000 index and the NASDAQ 100 index preceded market drops or corrections. I posted…

• Charts and Commentary

  Published 29 April 2006 | viewed 4,850 times

  Yesterday, we said that the Fear Index was at a "pivot point". Such points can be major transitional times where the bulls and bears have…

• Charts and Commentary

  Published 22 April 2006 | viewed 4,941 times

  Today, we will look at the gold market again and show you a simple technique that could have generated a 26% gain on the GLD…

• Charts and Commentary

  Published 07 April 2006 | viewed 4,692 times

  Are there signs that high fevered, "emotionally driven", buying behavior could be reaching Mania levels? The following true story happened at 3:36 PM, yesterday afternoon.…

• Charts and Commentary

  Published 31 March 2006 | viewed 4,586 times

  Can you safely ignore this? And if so, for how long? The market has short term, medium term, and long term trends. Many investors are…

• Charts and Commentary

  Published 25 March 2006 | viewed 4,394 times

  As an investor, you know that, as the VIX trends down, the market moves up ... so its trend is very important. The VIX (Volatility…

• Charts and Commentary

  Published 15 March 2006 | viewed 4,721 times

  You never buy a car without "looking under the hood" to see the condition of the car's most important part ... the motor. The outside…