After a week of exhibiting great relative strength, spot gold prices (GLD) finally caved in to the intense selling pressure.

Professional trader Price Headley provides mid-week commentary on the Nasdaq, S&P, and Dow markets.

Fear has now replaced greed as the underlying emotion in the marketplace.

The failure of the market to hold the support zone on Tuesday and into Wednesday now has the indices open to move even lower ahead of the weekend.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for August 16.

It appears that no Federal Reserve Chairman is able to escape the first year curse. Although we are a few months beyond the first year mark of Ben Bernanke’s term, the current credit crunch has been slowly gnawing at the economy since the beginning of the year.

Why should I pay such a high commission? What if prices don’t come back up?

Inflation growth in the Euro-zone is expected to slow during the month of July, with CPI estimated to have fallen 0.2 percent from the month prior, while the annualized rate is expected to hold steady at 1.8 percent.

Toni Hansen writes that Tuesday's selloff has provided additional flush into support but the momentum of the move does not have her looking quite yet for many buying opportunities.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for August 15.