Our contributors include:

David Brown, Chief Market Strategist, Sabrient Systems

Scott Martindale, Senior Marketing Director, Sabrient Systems

Scott Brown, President, Sabrient Systems

Ronald Rutherford, Chief Macroeconomist, Sabrient Systems

Introduction to the Dark Horse Traders' Hedge

The Dark Horse Traders' Hedge is long/short virtual portfolio written by Scott Brown, Managing Director – Retail Division at Sabrient Systems.   It is a  based on  Sabrient System’s highly successful and popular Investors’ (H)Edge Portfolio.

Introduction to Trading with Insiders

Trading with Insiders is a newsletter/blog written by Robert M. Maltbie, Jr. a money manager and CEO of Stockjock.com.   In addition to a lively market commentary, Robert selects two top-ranked stocks with high insider buying, based on the Sabrient Insider Ranking score.

Trading with Insiders is published monthly.

Introduction to What the Market Wants

What the Market Wants is a weekly analysis of the market written by David Brown, Chief Market Strategist for Sabrient Systems.

Introduction to ETF Periscope

ETF Periscope is written by Daniel Sckolnik.  In addition to a lively market analysis, Daniel scans Sabrient’s SectorCast-ETF Rankings weekly to find a few ETFs that meet the current landscape of the markets.

The Process

Introduction to Sector Detector

Sector Detector is a weekly blog/newsletter written by Scott Martindale, Sabrient's Senior Managing Director.  In Sector Detector, Scott discusses the top and bottom sectors (as represented by ETFs), using the Sabrient SectorCast ranking model for a one-month forward look.

He also tracks the top two Sector ETFs long and bottom two Sector ETFs short.

We have all heard the experts recommend "hedging" your stock portfolio. You may have meticulously researched and selected all of your portfolio longs as your core holdings for long-term appreciation.

The SPY sold off early today in advance of the FOMC decision, but bounced strongly from the support line of the bearish rising wedge formation, which also is quite close to its 200-day moving average. Just as I said last week, all market indexes appear a bit extended and ready to pullback, but the bulls are game. Put/call ratio and volume is low.

The market continues to creep upward, with the short-term trend clearly positive albeit on quite low volume.  The S&P 500 remains above its 50-day and 200-day moving average, but as we head into the current week, our concern is about conviction within the marketplace.  The ECRI (Economic Cycle Research Institute) finally gave a positive uptick last week, but it would be early to conclude that we’re on a strong uptrend.

The SPY finished the month of July up a robust +7%, and then started the first day of August by tacking on another +2% gain. All market indexes appeared a bit stretched from the mean and ready to pullback today, but the bulls fought on mightily to keep the day’s loss minor.