Afternoon Summary: With the 39th Anniversary of Black Monday almost behind us, I thought it would be fitting to start today’s Afternoon Commentary off by looking at US stock indexes. [...]

Afternoon Summary: With closing bells ringing out across the market landscape, we are reminded once again of the combined effect of the Goldilocks Principle[i] and the Wilhelmi Element[ii] telling us [...]

Afternoon Summary: Did Thursday’s session eventually make sense, as compared to what we saw overnight? Maybe, at least a little. (Or maybe it was the lingering effects of this morning’s [...]

Afternoon Summary: During my conversation with Ben this afternoon, he mentioned how red was the color of the day. I pulled up the Barchart Futures Market Heat Map, and he [...]

Afternoon Summary: While there wasn’t much in the way of market moving news early this morning, a check of the headlines Tuesday afternoon – well – let me start with [...]

Afternoon Summary: How did the commodity complex follow last Friday’s historic session? Historic in the sense most markets saw some sort of frantic Friday activity, the frenzy heightened by USDA’s [...]

Afternoon Summary: With a little over an hour remaining in Friday’s trading session, and roughly an hour after USDA released its latest Keno numbers, my friend in the brokerage industry [...]

Afternoon Summary: One can only wonder how many of the US president’s friends, family, business associates, and social media subscribers sold the Energies sector during the initial rally overnight through [...]

Afternoon Summary: As markets across the commodity complex move toward a close Wednesday, we get closer to being over the Hump (as in Day) this week. This means we are [...]

Afternoon Summary: You don't see this often, so when I noticed it, I thought it would be fun to share. A look at Tuesday afternoon's Barchart Futures Market Heat Map [...]

Afternoon Summary: The classic song (Monday Monday) from The Mamas & the Papas said it well, “Monday, Monday, you can’t trust that day. Monday, Monday, sometimes it just turns out [...]

Afternoon Summary: I understand if you are checking out early Friday afternoon. From what I can tell it is a beautiful fall day across much of the US, and frankly, [...]

Afternoon Summary: If nothing else., this first day of October saw a return to normal for a number of markets in the commodity complex. After posting a bullish September, the [...]

Afternoon Summary: A little behind the scenes story for you: When the clock struck High Noon (ET), I didn’t look at markets. Any markets. Any sector. Until it was time [...]

Afternoon Summary: Let me start by saying Tuesday was a classic Throwaway Day, generally in any sector you wanted to look. On the financial side, Wednesday marks the end of [...]

Afternoon Summary: It seems the general consensus to last week’s much hyped meeting between the US president and China’s President Xi is the former lost bigly to the latter – [...]

Afternoon Summary: As I watched Friday’s session unfold, I found it interesting how so many markets didn’t, couldn’t, hold activity seen overnight through the pre-dawn hours. I’ll talk about the [...]

Afternoon Summary: In my latest Weekly Column, I talked about traveling back to days of old Dodge City, the time misrepresented by the legendary television program Gunsmoke. The reality, though, [...]

Afternoon Summary: There is so much to talk about Wednesday afternoon, I might as well dive right in. On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, Barchart posted, “U.S. [...]

Afternoon Summary: While Tuesday’s activity paled in comparison to what we saw during Big Monday, a number of markets did show signs of typical Turnaround trade. Let’s start out in [...]

Afternoon Summary: You’ve heard of Good Friday and Super Tuesday? Well, a look the quote screen this afternoon and we can add Big Monday into the mix. While Market Rule [...]

*I’m away from the studio Friday afternoon so there won’t be an audio version of Afternoon Commentary. Afternoon Summary: One of the stories I saw early Friday as I wrote [...]

Afternoon Summary: I talked about it with during today’s Markets Now discussion with Michelle Rook. It doesn’t make any difference how markets trade overnight, how they open, if we see [...]

Afternoon Summary: As Tuesday unfolded, the most common topic of discussion was diesel fuel. To set the stage, the spot-month futures contract rallied as much as 32.25 cents, hitting a [...]

Afternoon Summary: Well, that was an interesting way to start the week. A day that would’ve been more fitting last week, with its US holiday, a Manic Monday and Turnaround [...]