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

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.