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It was another volatile day for stocks on Tuesday with modest early gains turning into sharper losses by the close while portfolio managers were finishing up their rebalancing for the new quarter. The Dow lost 410-points, closing near the lows of the day and ending an historical month and quarter for the stock market.

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Coming into this week, every Monday in March had been quite negative for stocks, so of course late on Friday there was a rush for the exits before the closing bell. So, Mr. Market did it again and went against the pattern and we got a big rally on Monday, although it was only about enough to take most of the indices back to Friday's highs before the sell-off. Still significant. That has set up some interesting patterns on the index charts. The Dow gained 691-points with gains over 3% for the ...

Stocks opened lower on Friday, battled back all day to nearly erase those losses, but a late selling surge pushed the indices toward their lows by the close. Mondays have been so bad in March that traders may have been rushing for the exits to raise cash, because on the flip side, Tuesdays have actually been quite good this month. There's a clear pattern over the past several weeks.

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More monetary stimulus along with the largest economic relief package in U.S. history aided more than 10% gains across stock indices. This was the first week where all the TSP stock funds were in positive territory since the first week of February. The week started by stocks falling producing a lower low for the recent stock free-fall. Quickly sentiment turned around Tuesday when the first signs of a economic relief package was being put together by lawmakers. Stock indices gapped up Tuesday and ...

Another rocket ship rally in a bear market. Fun, huh? I guess it depends which funds you are in. The Dow jumped 1352-points, and unlike Wednesday, this time it held the rally held onto the gains into the close and closed near the highs. End of month rebalancing, dead cat bounce, whatever you want to call it, that was a big day for stocks. Unfortunately the biggest rallies tend to come in bear markets and a lot of people are on the sidelines in cash or bonds when we get them, so they tend to ...