James Mound reviews futures and commodities in his weekly report for the week of December 14.

We are clearly starting to get some better data points here and there, but it is going to be a recovery in the statistics and not in the things that count, such as income and employment.

In a world of charts and indicators and support and resistance levels, we tend to venerate price activity above all else.  But price is often not the master, but rather the slave to news.

Markets are closer to living things than to inanimate objects.  They have hearts, souls, and a sense of humor.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the financial futures markets for December 11.

The US stock market is still in "bounce mode."  All bounces come to an unhappy end.  This will be no exception.

Mike Paulenoff writes that the ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TBT) is climbing towards a confrontation with the September-December resistance line.

Mike Paulenoff writes that spot gold prices appear to be traversing the entire band width from $1225 to $1099.

Don’t blame businessmen for being confused.  The press reports make it sound like it’s back to business-as-usual.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the financial futures markets for December 8.