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The emerging field known as “behavioral finance” is endlesslyfascinating to me – and no doubt to many traders.

Featuring @BrianOverby  &  @MNKahnQuick Takes Pro Market Technician Michael Kahn Analyzes the S&P 500:SPX was trading at 2,092.

This 2016 forecast is based on two key themes which include the imagined control of central bank policymakers and the ease with which we fool ourselves.

Show of (virtual) hands, folks: do Black Friday and its newercousin Cyber Monday deals still matter to consumers – and more importantly, toretail businesses’ bottom lines?

Featuring @BrianOverby  &  @MNKahnQuick Takes Pro Market Technician Michael Kahn Analyzes the S&P 500:SPX was trading at 2,092.

We asked and you answered – and the bears growled loud andclear.

December 2015 will go down as a month in a year that most commodity traders would like to forget, full of strong technical bounces in markets loitering in deeply oversold territory.

On this, the final trading day of 2015, I wanted to wish you all a very Happy New Year – but also reminisce a little about the year we’re ending today.

The verdict is in, the blue sky crowd has been too much in control in the world of economic forecasting.

Humans feel comfortable wrapped up in a context of predictability, but when it comes to the markets -- where momentum can change on a dime -- predictability is a luxury.