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Hello everyone, and welcome back from the weekend. Before we get too far into the new trading week though, I want to backtrack just a bit and ask... did everyone see Sunday's televised look at Oakridge Global Energy Solutions (OGES)? Somebody sure did. OGES was up a whopping 73% today (no that wasn't a typo) following the national exposure.

I hate to be the one to say I told you so, but, I told you so.

Here's the really cool part - that was just part one. There are still two segments to go in the 90-minute look at the company's breakthrough technology. I have to think the next two half-hour segments could do just as much in terms of publicity as yesterday's did.

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How was everybody's trading week? You know, the market may not have moved ahead like gangbusters, but all things considered, it's still pretty darn impressive to see the market at least hold its ground. The bears have every right and reason to pull the rug out from underneath the market here, but they didn't.

We'll talk about it in a moment. First, before I get a chance to forget, I want to show you something for a couple of our Featured Stocks.

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Well folks, that's day seven (and arguably day nine) of this range-bound trading action. It's quite remarkable, really. For the past year and a half the bulls and bears were exchanging blows, and stocks were anything but content to stand still. Now we can't get them to do anything but stand still. Since July 18th, the S&P 500 hasn't traded below 2160, and hasn't traded above 2175.

For a while I personally felt it was just the calm before the bearish storm, but now I can't be so sure. The longer the market moves sideways, the more developed this floor, or base, becomes, giving all the moving average lines and would-be buyers a chance to catch up to where stocks are. To heck with valuations. We'll just have to see how it pans out.

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Good Wednesday afternoon everybody.

Well, as you certainly know by now, Janet Yellen and her friends at the Federal Reserve opted to leave interest rates unchanged. They did, however, acknowledge there was a little more possibility of a September rate hike than there had been. It was all still fairly open-ended, but you get the sense she and the other voting members of the FOMC were a little surprised that Brexit and lackluster earnings season thus far (they made the decision back in June, so not all that's happened since then is factored in) wasn't more of a problem than it's been.

Broadly speaking though, the Fed's minutes didn't really tells us much more than we already knew.

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Hello everybody. How was your Tuesday? For stocks it ended up being a mostly uneventful one, but that doesn't mean things aren't getting real interesting. Take a look at the daily chart of the S&P 500 below. The index has been trapped in a narrow trading range between 2160 and 2174 for five days now. It's not a coincidence. It's a sign investors aren't quite sure what to do here, so they're doing nothing. That's kind of like trapping a stray dog in a corner though... you really have no idea if it's going to fight or flee.