What do the charts tell us about volatility?

Should you just stick to your model?

Who's gonna win this match? Mr. Market? Or the fixers?

As a share of personal income, never before has the private sector contributed so little. Thank god for the government. Without those checks from the feds, we’d all be broke.

Are traders heading back to Gold (GLD)?

There's something else going on -- something much more important and much harder to deal with than an ordinary recession. The feds have thrown everything into the battle to stop this downturn. No matter how you look at it, the ammunition spent in this fight has been spectacular.

Speculators are just doing their job.  They see that the real problem is debt.

Technically, the action in the VIX is not confirming the weakness in the S&P 500.

How is it possible that people who just discovered capitalism 20 years ago could do a better job of it than Harvard grads motivated by million-dollar bonuses?

James Mound reviews futures and commodities in his weekly report for the week of May 24.