Robert M. Maltbie, Jr. CFA

The market found pleasure in manure today. When Australian miner BHP Billiton (BHP) proposed to acquire Canadian fertilizer maker Potash (POT), the market saw this as an opportunity to soar. Perhaps traders took it as a sign that corporate cash is ready to be deployed…or perhaps it was simply a low-volume oversold bounce on the flimsiest of catalysts.

Daniel Skolnik, ETF Periscope

Daniel is an author, entrepreneur and trader. He currently divides his time between managing a portfolio for a private company and writing a book on ETFs slated for publication in 2011. In addition, he is partnering with Sabrient Systems to create a series of virtual ETF portfolios based on Sabrient’s proprietary quantitative analysis systems.

Scott Martindale
Senior Managing Director - Sales, Marketing & Business Development for Sabrient Systems

As we wind down the summer doldrums, are we heading toward another low-volume August?  Today was one of the lowest volume sessions of the year on the NYSE. Kids are returning to school in some parts of the country already, and many portfolio managers and traders will begin returning to their desks. But what they are finding in the market this week is quite different than they would have seen last week.

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