As January goes, so goes the year! If you've been trading stocks for any length of time, you've probably heard of the January Barometer. You'll hear it quoted endlessly by the media, but let me tell you, that whole expression of "As January goes so goes the year" has zero value to it any longer.

I hate starting the new year on a losing trade. But that's exactly what I got today. Wasn't necessarily a bad trade - I managed the risk like I should, noticed fairly quickly into the trade that the market wasn't going to hold up and got out of the trade with less than half the

The stock market’s Santa Rally has delivered coal (so far) This is one of the problems with buying whole heartedly into seasonal factors, because it only works until it doesn’t and when it doesn’t, like it has done so far since the start of the Santa Rally on Christmas eve, it can wreck havoc on

How to trade a stock split: in this podcast episode Ryan talks about the impact of what an announced forward stock split means for a stock that you are considering swing trading, or may already be trading. Also covered are the risks, and the strategy behind stock splits for investors and traders alike. Subscribe to

Is it time for a bounce? There has been a ton of selling over the last two days in the stock market, and may feel like we are at just the beginning of a prolonged stock market sell-off, but I would argue we may be at the end of the selling for stocks - at

Recent indicators suggest that economic activity has continued to expand at a solid pace. Since earlier in the year, labor market conditions have generally eased, and the unemployment rate has moved up but remains low. Inflation has made progress toward the Committee's 2 percent objective but remains somewhat elevated. The Committee seeks to achieve maximum