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Trading Places with Tom Bowley1w ago
Why Looking At Germany Provides Us An S&P 500 Crystal Ball
Market Recap for Thursday, August 15, 2019 There were a ton of economic reports out on Thursday, mostly positive, and that seemed to slow the onslaught of selling as our major indices finished mixed on the session. Walmart, Inc. (WMT, +6 Read More
Top Advisors Corner1w ago
Tom McClellan: Equity Put/Call Volume Ratio’s 21-Day MA
The stock market selloff since the last new all-time high on July 26 has brought the bears out, and they have been trading a lot of put options. Some trade those as an outright bearish bet, and some as a hedge on portfolio risk Read More
Art's Charts1w ago
State of the Stock Market - Index and Sector Breadth Models Take Hits
Watch for Rising Correlation The overall state of the stock market is the most important factor to consider when trading or investing in stocks. Broad market movements, by definition, affect most stocks Read More
Trading Places with Tom Bowley1w ago
Futures Rally As Wall Street Tries To Show A Little "Sole"
Special Event I am hosting a HUGE event on Monday, August 19th at 4:30pm EST as I release my Top 10 Stocks for my Model, Aggressive and Income portfolios Read More
Don't Ignore This Chart!1w ago
Financials Are Breaking (more) Support While Rotating Into the Lagging Quadrant On The RRG
On the Relative Rotation Graph for US sectors, the tail on XLF, the Financials sector, caught my eye this morning Read More
DecisionPoint1w ago
DP Mid-Week: More Like a Dead Mouse Bounce - IT Neutral Signals
The market has been flinging us around a lot this past week. I had been looking for a better bounce off the 200-EMA than we got; usually we use the term "dead cat" bounce, but in this case it was so small that I call it a "dead mouse" bounce Read More
Don't Ignore This Chart!1w ago
A Bearish Continuation Pattern Takes Shape in IWM
The Russell 2000 iShares (IWM) has been underperforming for some time now and remains the weakest of the major index ETFs. The chart below shows IWM forming a lower high from May to July and a lower low from March to May Read More
Trading Places with Tom Bowley1w ago
Tuesday Was Nothing More Than A Bounce In A Market Downtrend
Market Recap for Tuesday, August 13, 2019 I received an email the other day after I discussed the rising volatility ($VIX) and likely move lower and it stated "Tom, I thought you were bullish. Why the bearish view now?" Read More
Muscular Investing1w ago
Vanguard Finds a Few Equity Managers Who Soar, But There's a Catch
In a study, the Vanguard Group discovered a tiny minority of mutual-fund money managers who outperformed their benchmarks over a recent 15-year period. Unfortunately for investors, following one of those managers would have meant an agonizing wait. Figure 1 Read More
Don't Ignore This Chart!1w ago
19 Banks Losing Investor Support
On yet another day where a tweet sends the market across a 600-point range in seconds, figuring out the true compass direction is difficult Read More
Wyckoff Power Charting1w ago
Stock Market Time
Recently the stock market indexes entered a period of extreme volatility. Seemingly random events sent the indexes into rapid declines. These unexpected events blindsided many traders and investors Read More
Trading Places with Tom Bowley1w ago
Starting To Shape Up Like An ABC Correction
Market Recap for Monday, August 12, 2019 The flight to safety was clear on Monday. The 10 year treasury yield ($TNX) tumbled once again, falling 9 basis points to 1.63%, inching closer and closer to the historic TNX lows that were set in 2012 and 2016 Read More
Muscular Investing1w ago
The Best Strategies Lag the S&P 500 for 5+ Years
As investors, we constantly hear, “Beat the market! Beat the market!” But trying to beat the market every month or year is not the way to win the race. • The most successful investment strategies actually TRAIL the S&P 500 for five years or longer. Figure 1 Read More
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Martin Pring's Market Roundup1w ago
Thinking the Unthinkable - Bonds are Peaking
Long-Term Bond Oscillators Almost Fully Stretched Key Reversal Bars and Other Evidence Suggests Bonds are Exhausted on the Upside The Trend is Your Friend…. Until It Isn’t About a month ago, I wrote an article entitled “Bond Yields May Not Be Headed Lower After All” Read More
Trading Places with Tom Bowley1w ago
Energy Failing To Show Absolute Or Relative Strength....With One Exception
Special Note If you didn't have a chance to read my blog post from Saturday, "I'm Returning To My Roots At EarningsBeats.com", be sure to check it out. I'll be explaining a lot more about my decision and discussing my three portfolios in a webinar this afternoon at 4:30pm EST Read More
Don't Ignore This Chart!1w ago
This Biotech Kept its Head while Others Lost Theirs
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs .Rudyard Kipling The line above comes from the Poem, "If" by Rudyard Kipling. We can rephrase this when looking at stocks over the last few weeks Read More
The Canadian Technician1w ago
Bears Start Digging In
When bears start browsing nearby, there are multiple reasons to be concerned. As I mentioned in my ChartWatchers article, 3 Serious Signals Should Send Shock Waves, there are a lot of charts pointing to caution Read More
Analyzing India1w ago
Week Ahead: Range-Bound Move Expected In The Truncated Week; These Sectors May Relatively Outperform
After bouncing off its 100-Week MA in the previous week, the markets attempted to take a breather and stabilize during the past week Read More
Trading Places with Tom Bowley2w ago
I'm Returning To My Roots At EarningsBeats.com!
Wow, it's been a great ride here at StockCharts.com! The ride's not completely over, but I'm making a big change (and with mixed emotions) as I leave my role as Sr. Technical Analyst at StockCharts.com, effective September 15, 2019, and return to EarningsBeats Read More
ChartWatchers2w ago
5 Best Industry Groups Not Named Software (And Stocks To Trade In Each)
I know it's summer, and we generally think defensively during this time of year, but there are still very strong areas with tremendous momentum that you should be considering. I'll give you my top five industry groups with a stellar individual stock performer within each group Read More
ChartWatchers2w ago
3 Serious Signals Should Send Shock Waves
The world is full of charts. Rick Santelli used the expression "Every ship at the bottom of the ocean also had a chart room." There's an important caveat, there, however: Were the navigators looking at the charts? Stock charts only tell you something if you want to hear it Read More
The Traders Journal2w ago
Achieve Clarity In A Nuanced Stock Market By Maximizing Relative Strength In Three Investing Arenas
The stock market is indeed a nuanced creature. With that in mind, I'd like to show you how to use Relative Strength to understand what this creature is actually doing Read More
ChartWatchers2w ago
DP WEEKLY WRAP: Important New Look at an Old Indicator
One thing that we technical analysts like to spot at price tops is an indicator flashing a negative divergence, which is an indicator that is trending downward while price continues to trend upward Read More
The MEM Edge2w ago
The Risk Is Real – 3 Stock Candidates That Can Offer Solace In A Chaotic Market
It was a wild week on Wall Street as the markets continued to gyrate in response to the latest trade related headlines. Those who went on vacation for the week may have been served best as a market that was down as much as 3.8% at one point, closed with a loss of ½ percent Read More
ChartWatchers2w ago
Taking the Pulse of SPDR Sectors - Defensive Sectors Have a Healthy Heartbeat
John Murphy joined us on MarketWatchers LIVE on Thursday (8/8/19) and showed us some very interesting charts on the Sector SPDRs. The deterioration of nearly all of them prompted me to look at them using the Price Momentum Oscillator (PMO) in CandleGlance Read More
ChartWatchers2w ago
Finding Sectors and Stocks that Held Up During the Onslaught
The S&P 500 hit a new high in late July and then got pummeled in early August with a sharp decline that broke the 50-day EMA. Moving averages like this can serve benchmark levels that chartists can use to compare performance Read More
ChartWatchers2w ago
Transports Continue to Lag Behind the Dow Industrials
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in John Murphy's Market Message on Friday, August 9th at 12:27pm ET Read More
Don't Ignore This Chart!2w ago
Where Is The Hiding Spot?
After such a sudden swing down, who would be surprised if we whipped sideways for a bit? With the 1000-point move down and back up on the $INDU over the past few days, would anyone be shocked that the next direction is difficult? We have lots of reasons to be concerned Read More
Art's Charts2w ago
The State of the Stock Market (with video) - A Pick up in Volatility
Volatility reared its ugly head this week with the S&P 500 falling around 6% in six days and then rebounding with a sharp three-day bounce. This is the biggest decline since the May-June correction, and the sharpest decline since early December Read More
Trading Places with Tom Bowley2w ago
It's Make Or Break Time For Telecommunications Equipment Stocks
Market Recap for Thursday, August 8, 2019 Thursday was a trend day for U.S. stocks, one in which the action was positive from start to finish. It's generally viewed bullishly and as a sign of accumulation Read More
DecisionPoint2w ago
DP Mid-Week Alert: Possible Silver Lining on the Short-Term Horizon
It's been a difficult week for the markets since the last publication of the Mid-Week Alert and the knife is falling fast. However, I'm putting my hands out there right now to catch it based on signs of life on our short-term indicators Read More
Trading Places with Tom Bowley2w ago
This Is How To Pick Relative Strength Stocks To Improve Your Performance
Market Recap for Wednesday, August 7, 2019 It appeared as though we were heading for another big down day as our major indices opened down 2% or thereabouts. There was a huge rush into treasuries with the 10 year treasury yield ($TNX) dropping to an almost unfathomable 1 Read More
Don't Ignore This Chart!2w ago
GE is Doing It Again!
A good way for you to check what has been driving a particular market is to go to the "Market Movers" widget on your dashboard and select the universe that you are interested in. To the right, I have printed the table showing the top 10 most active stocks in the S&P 500 Read More
Muscular Investing2w ago
Asset Rotation Protects You Against Losses, Easily and Simply
During periods of market shocks, your money should be in something other than equities. But exactly what, without using your emotions or market timing? • With 21st-century tools, we can now use low-cost index funds to make a safe port in any storm. Figure 1 Read More
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