Investors are still confident in US bonds.  Then again, investors were still confident in US houses in 2007, and still confident in US tech stocks in 1999.

Lawrence G. McMillan reviews the options market in his weekly column for April 22.

Natural gas futures exploded above resistance. The iPath Dow Jones UBS Natural Gas (GAZ), however, has not followed the same path.

Today we once again think about the inflation/deflation debate, turn our eyes to Europe and the very interesting election happening there this Sunday, and speculate a little about what could derail the US economy.

Sometimes our trading strategy does not quite set up, but in order to participate we often compromise.

Despite commodity bashing by Goldman Sachs again this morning, oil prices remain relatively buoyant.

Lawrence G. McMillan reviews the options market in his weekly column for April 15.

After whipsawing to the downside after this morning's inventory data, natural gas futures have reversed sharply to the upside and pierced key resistance.

If the economy really is recovering, the Fed will be able to back off from money printing. Stocks, gold, commodities -- everything should go down.

The feds spend more than they "earn" in taxes – almost 100% more. That gives them only two choices -- borrow or balance.