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Gold aficionados have for many years contended with the plaints about the metal's sterility. "Gold doesn't earn interest" is a constant refrain heard from nonowners.

Resistance for DOW is at 10640 and NASDAQ 2230.
Trend Of Major Indices and Stocks
Symbol Trend No. of Days WeeklyTrend Month
^DJI Bulllish 2 Flat! Flat!
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The iShares Diversified Alternative Trust (NYSE: ALT), a new multi-asset class multi-strategy ETF was launched yesterday (11/16/2009).

This week has confirmed a bullish breakout in Wal-mart (NYSE: WMT) stock prices from a 1-year weekly triangle formation starting in September, 2008. Let's take a look at this bullish price break on the weekly chart.

Sabrient's research team posts a wide variety of useful data for internal reference, and much of it is used within our quantitative models and client deliverables. One of the things that we track is Net Insider Transactions.

Freshly back from Australia, I am hardly surprised by the fresh wave of dollar weakness. Over the past few months we have talked extensively about why the dollar could continue to fall. As the EUR/USD cracks above 1.50 for the second time in 2 months and USD/JPY extends its losses below 90, there are many reasons why the overall trend in the dollar is still down.

Famed market commentator and CEO of SharkInvesting.com James 'Rev Shark' DePorre, provides weekly insight on where he thinks the markets are going and how to navigate through the financial seas. In this episode, Rev discusses the recent drubbing of small-cap stocks and the what to look for technically. Rev also discusses how fund managers are going to have to push performance going into year-end.

Pat Anderson is a full-time trader who looks for short-term trends in stocks and ETFs to find profitable trades. Here, Tim Bourquin of TraderInterviews.com talks to Pat about the charts he uses and how he screens the market for the basket of stocks he is going to watch for the day.

Market followers love to make timing predictions. They come in all time frames and flavors:

•The market has made the high for the day, and will now trade down. Or the opposite.
•This is the bottom. Or the top.
•We have seen the highs (or lows) for the year.
•Or when the Dow was at 9500, would we see 10000 before 9000?

After the apparently success of its stimulus program, China’s remarkable economic recovery has many observers forecasting an even brighter future for the emerging powerhouse. China’s 2008-2009 economic rebound and rising appetite for commodities has made many bullish converts. A close look at some important indicators, however, calls that optimism into question…

When there has been a nice market rebound, we should expect to hear the familiar refrain: It is a stock picker's market.

This wise-sounding expression means that it is no longer good enough to "buy the market" whether through index funds or market stocks. It is time for some actual analysis.

A late day reversal on Wall Street has earned the NASDAQ its third distribution day within this period. In addition, most of the indices printed key bar reversals for the session, an extremely bearish 1-day reversal pattern. Take a look at volume on the SPY during Wednesday's session.

It's been a storybook year for Brazil and exchange traded funds (ETFs) that focus on the rapidly growing economy: it was one of the first to rocket out of the gate after the recession and Rio de Janeiro recently locked up the 2016 Summer Olympics. That's not all:

Famed market commentator and CEO of SharkInvesting.com James 'Rev Shark' DePorre, provides weekly insight on where he thinks the markets are going and how to navigate through the financial seas. In this episode, Rev discusses the latest wave of earnings and the inclination traders have had to sell into these positive reports.