Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for February 12.

Tim Bourquin interviews Steve Palmquist, who talks about how he uses candlestick charts and tests trading systems.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for February 11.

This week John Mauldin looks at the blind spot in the unemployment statistics, the continuing meltdown in the credit markets, and the service sector implosion in the ISM data.

The Dow rose a bit yesterday. The dollar went up too. Commodities hit a new all-time high. Gold rose. From an inflationary point of view, these are all positive signs. The feds are desperately afraid prices will fall. They’re doing all they can to keep the party going.

Upcoming UK data in line with expectations will highlight the issue of weak growth and strong inflation that the BOE faces.

Lawrence G. McMillan reviews the options market in his weekly column for February 8.

Over the past few months, Canadian economic data has generally surprised to the upside – with the exception of last month – which has proven to be bullish for the Canadian dollar.

For the past five years, short-term pullbacks in the market were eventually corrected by the long-term uptrend. Now, there's not a long-term uptrend.

Americans misunderstood the nature of capitalism itself. The market system merely provides the setting in which people get what they deserve. They could get rich, if they were to do the right thing: work hard, save money, innovate, take chances, forgo consumption. But do the wrong thing, and they will pay for it.