The incoming Obama Administration is beginning to grease the wheels and the market is liking it.

Futures are telling us there will be more gains when the stock market opens Monday morning. This upside bias comes from the weekend’s government rescue plan of Citibank (C), which injected $20 billion in cash and guaranteed billions in assets.

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

Leverage is an eight-letter word, which the markets now regard as twice as bad as the two four-letter words debt and pain.

Professional trader Price Headley analyzes the Dow, S&P, and Nasdaq stocks indices.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for November 24.

Boris Schlossberg summarizes winning trading in three rules.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for November 21.

If you come to the conclusion that implied volatilities are going to come down over the next few months and into 2009, how can a trader benefit from this?

Every single day we have more reason to believe that the US unemployment rate will break 8 percent next year.