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Dave Fry's Market Comments For July 27

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:58:56 GMT

MARKET COMMENT July 27, 2009 Yeah, that’s it—when volumes are as light as this traders just push their “easy button” and markets are propped. Bad news, good news or no news, it makes little difference when you’re in control. So, who’s in control? The usual suspects.[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For July 20, 2009

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:56:12 GMT

MARKET COMMENT July 20, 2009 You can’t argue with new highs. The only thing missing in this rally is you since volume is incredibly light. Therefore, the only conclusion is computers are trading against one another. Friday’s volume was as low as a typical half day of trading during the Christmas holiday break.[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For July 8

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:29:55 GMT

MARKET COMMENT July 8, 2009 We had a lot more volume than we’ve seen recently. Short-term equity markets are much oversold while commodity markets continue to get hammered big time. The entire day can be summed up with just those two sentences. But now we have earnings upon us and Alcoa is kicking things off with unremarkable results.[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For July 7

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:47:16 GMT

MARKET COMMENT July 7, 2009 I guess HAL has been deactivated and GS has lost this little memory unit. If you see it lying around, well hell, they’ll buy it from you no doubt. Or, worse, you might get thrown in the slammer since nobody, but nobody messes with the Da Boyz. The green shoots have turned to pond scum as investors, currently sans HAL, don’t up from down.[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For June 30

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:10:34 GMT

MARKET COMMENT June 30, 2009 Um, “worse than expected”? I guess that sums it up today as Consumer Confidence data was terrible. Stock price declines today were milder than expected given the news. But, silly me, I forget that this is the quarter and mid-year end—there are bonuses to be had and bullish headlines to be written.[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For June 29

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:36:29 GMT

MARKET COMMENT June 29, 2009 I thought this deliberate end-of-month/quarter shenanigans were against the rules right? Oh, they don’t enforce this type of activity—never have, never will. Anyway, with volume ultra-light, or absent bullish news for that matter, propping markets can be done with ease since it takes just a little paint to push things in the desired direction. Breadth was positive but volume was beneath significant.[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For June 25

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:03:29 GMT

MARKET COMMENT June 25, 2009 Okay, sometimes it’s good to miss a couple of days. Everything and nothing has happened. Yesterday it was the amazingly boring and meandering Fed statement that had a little something for everybody. (How many “buts” can you stuff in this thing?[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For June 22

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:25:44 GMT

MARKET COMMENT June 22, 2009 The story is front and center: GS is reported (later denied) able to pay huge bonuses to employees this year. (Guardian story is here.) How can this happen especially now? TARP money to trade with thanks to US taxpayers.[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For June 18

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:45:34 GMT

MARKET COMMENT June 18, 2009 I thought it might be entertaining at least but the show was a bust—a bore—a ramped, camped and dumped deal. Bull’s got excited early with (ho hum) “better than expected” employment data and Leading Economic Indicators. Then financials got a lift from Turbo-Timmy’s testimony. With quad witching starting you’d think we’d have more volume but there was little.[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For June 17

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:24:39 GMT

MARKET COMMENT June 17, 2009 Doh!!! Tomorrow is another Treasury auction and to prepare our fearless Fed is buying while our Treasury is selling. How does that work?[More...]

Strategist Offers Investing Tips

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:50:00 GMT

Nov. 3--Readers of The News Tribune first met Bruce McCain a year ago when he visited Tacoma to speak with a group of selected high-net-worth clients of Key Private Bank -- where McCain serves as chief investment strategist.
He has earned a doctorate in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a Certified Financial Analyst.
Alongside speaking with clients and managing portfolios, McCain also appears regularly both in print and broadcast media.

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