Dave Landry takes a one-minute look at the stock market in his video for August 19.

One of the greatest challenges facing many traders right now is avoiding the temptation to overtrade in a range-bound market.

Consumers are paying down their debt -- or defaulting on it -- at a rate of about 6 percent per year.

The stock market indices ended marginally higher today and had an interesting path.

Today's early weakness in gold has totally reversed, with the SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) pivoting off lows.

Download Adrian Manz's Around The Horn Intraday Trading Plan PDF for August 18.

Dr. Adrian Manz analyzes the major markets, stock sectors, and individual stocks for August 18.

Dave Landry takes a one-minute look at the stock market in his video for August 18.

One common indicator of short-term strength is the frequency at which stocks and ETFs pull back to touch support of their 20-day exponential moving averages within the course of their uptrends.

1130 would still pose a formidable overhead barrier for the S&P 500, but a further target around 1170 which was the bounce level following the May 6 selloff, would be in need of testing and surpassing in order to add conviction behind a longer-term positive outlook for this index.