FRED Alert!

FREDAlert! Volume 17, Issue 1 April 4, 2025   We are getting enough similar questions that we have decided to put out a FREDAlert. The current decline was not suggested by our technical indicators and is a surprise. When this happens, the market will do what it will, which means … Read more

FREDAlert! Volume 12, Issue 2 April 17, 2020 The markets are up strong in the night session, on news of a potentially successful drug therapy trial for Coronavirus in the Chicago area. This is the drug from Gilead Sciences (GILD) called Remdesivir that we have mentioned before, which also had … Read more

FREDAlert! Volume 12, Issue 1 March 17, 2020 Monday’s close was not as we wished, but in some respects, it was better than we have seen in other down days, with a drift down from the high. We also closed with a McClellan Oscillator buy signal on the close, and … Read more

FREDAlert! Volume 11, Issue 2 August 6, 2019 We have been asked about the market and feel we should put out an alert, but frankly fewer people than normal have sent panicky emails, probably because we have been writing about the possibility of this type of action for a while … Read more

FREDAlert! Volume 11, Issue 1 May 10, 2019 Since we were unable to do our weekly conference call live, we will give this quick update on the state of the equity markets through yesterday’s close. Thursday, SPY came down to the 284 level mentioned in the weekly, in fact broke … Read more

FREDAlert! Volume 10, Issue 2 December 27, 2018 Given the sharp moves on Christmas Eve and 12/26/18 we’ve decided on a quick alert. First, both of these moves are interesting and have served to take the market below and then above our first downside target area of 240 on SPY. … Read more

FREDAlert! Volume 10, Issue 1 February 6, 2018 The recent trading is finally provoking some consternation in the popular media regarding the stock market. While this is happening more quickly than we thought it might some review will throw some light on this. Recall we have said on conference calls … Read more

FREDAlert! Volume 8, Issue 4   December 16, 2016 Here is the tax bounce list for 2016/2017. We use the traditional rules for this list. These are to own the position in the stocks by the last trading day in December and eliminate the holdings by the last trading day … Read more

FREDAlert! Volume 8, Issue 3 June 24, 2016 The result of the British vote to leave the European Union has stunned financial markets although this possibility had existed and is doubtless factored in by some investors. The politics and long-term ramifications of this vote are unclear intermediate-term and outside the … Read more

FREDAlert! Volume 8, Issue 2 January 14, 2016 With Wednesday’s trading, SPY has violated the 189-area mentioned in the weekly as a stop loss. Especially for less aggressive advisors, this is the place to raise back the cash added back in at 194.00 on Thursday January 7th.  In other words, … Read more