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The Halftime Show: Energy Sector Continues Uptrend

by Pete Carmasino

In this week's edition of StockCharts TV's Halftime, Pete goes over the usual suspects in the markets. He presents a review of both the SPX and the NDX indexes, followed by a review of the US Dollar and a quick look at bonds using the TLT ETF  Read More

Don't Ignore This Chart!

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Energy Stocks in the Spotlight: A Look at Diamondback Energy

by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

With Labor Day weekend behind us, it's time to get back to the business of following the stock market. As the broader stock market indexes show signs of a September slowdown, crude oil is grabbing attention. And when crude oil prices rise, prices at the pump go higher  Read More

The Final Bar

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FORGET Valuations, REMEMBER the Charts!

by David Keller

In this edition of StockCharts TV's The Final Bar, guest Ari Wald, CFA, CMT of Oppenheimer & Co. shows how energy stocks are taking a leadership role, with high beta sectors still outperforming low volatility defensive stocks  Read More

Mish's Market Minute

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Technical Correction? Or Return of the Bear Market?

by Mish Schneider

On July 5th, Mish wrote an article called "Sell in July and Go Away? Calendar Range Reset". In that article, she noted, "should IWM fail to clear the calendar range high and worse, break down under a new 6-month calendar range low[..  Read More

Art's Charts

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The Key to the August Breakouts

by Arthur Hill

Stocks surged in the second half of August with several ETFs breaking out of corrective patterns, such as falling flags or falling wedges. Even though September is a seasonally weak month, these breakouts are bullish until proven otherwise  Read More

The Final Bar

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Small-Caps Take BIG Plunge in Risk-Off Move

by David Keller

In this edition of StockCharts TV's The Final Bar, Dave notes severe weakness in the small-cap space as the Russell 2000 forms a potential head-and-shoulders topping pattern  Read More

Mish's Market Minute

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It's Really All About the Retail Sector Now

by Mish Schneider

This entire year, retail, as measured by the ETF XRT (a.k.a. the Granny of the Economic Modern Family), has underperformed the SPY and QQQs  Read More

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Martin Pring's Market Roundup

Some Investment Implications for Stage 3 of the Business Cycle

by Martin Pring

The business cycle has been with us for as long as reliable financial records have been available, and that's at least 200 years. It may seem to be a mysterious force, but it is nothing more than a set sequence of chronological events that just keeps repeating  Read More

The Final Bar

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Top 10 Charts to Watch, September 2023

by David Keller, Grayson Roze

In this edition of StockCharts TV's The Final Bar, Dave and Grayson co-host a special presentation, wherein they unveil the top 10 charts that are poised to shape the landscape of September 2023. This video originally premiered on September 4, 2023  Read More

RRG Charts

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Sector Spotlight: Monthly RRG Shows Preference for Stocks Over Bonds

by Julius de Kempenaer

The month of August has come to an end, and that means a focus on long-term trends, using monthly Relative Rotation Graphs in combination with the finalized price (bar-)charts for August, on this episode of StockCharts TV's Sector Spotlight  Read More

Trading Places with Tom Bowley

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Here's My Latest View of Current Market Action

by Tom Bowley

Hello to all my StockCharts supporters! First of all, thank you for your readership of my Trading Places blog, which is now in its 8th year. Also, thanks to all of you that watch my Trading Places LIVE shows that air on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 9:00am ET  Read More

Top Advisors Corner

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Market Breadth Continues Recovery; Watching the NVDA Effect on QQQ as Oil Heats Up

by Joe Duarte

The dog days of August are mercifully over. And as Wall Street gets back to work, new trends are emerging which could influence what the stock market does for the rest of the year  Read More

Analyzing India

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Week Ahead: Important for NIFTY To Stay Above This Level; Expect Outperformance in These Pockets

by Milan Vaishnav

The past five sessions of the week saw the Indian equities trading in a defined and narrower range. The first four sessions were seen leading the markets to a weekly loss, but the strong trading session on Friday saw NIFTY recouping its losses. The index oscillated in 234  Read More

Trading Places with Tom Bowley

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You MUST Be Aware of This Seasonality Change

by Tom Bowley

I love the seasonality information that StockCharts.com provides. It's important to keep in mind that seasonal tendencies are secondary indicators. I don't buy and sell based on them, because the price/volume combination will always be my primary indicator  Read More

Art's Charts

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Seasonality versus Simply Market Timing

by Arthur Hill

There is some validity to the best six months strategy, but investors would probably be better off with a simple timing tool. According to the Stock Trader's Almanac, the best six-month period runs from November to April. The worst six-month period runs from May to October  Read More

The MEM Edge

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Plenty of Setups Emerge as Bulls Regain Control

by Mary Ellen McGonagle

Last week, the broader markets regained their uptrend, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Indexes both closing above their key 50-day moving averages on Tuesday. In addition, the RSI and Stochastics turned positive as well  Read More

The Mindful Investor

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Three Ways I Use RSI To Analyze Trends

by David Keller

Novice investors usually go on a "Holy Grail quest" early on, reading books and watching videos and searching for that elusive one indicator to rule them all. After 23 years of analyzing the markets using technical analysis, I will tell you one thing for sure..  Read More

The MEM Edge

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MEM TV: Bullish Week Provides Perfect Setups!

by Mary Ellen McGonagle

In this episode of StockCharts TV's The MEM Edge, Mary Ellen reviews the new uptrend in the markets and shares where the current strength is, as well as the best ways for you to participate  Read More

ChartWatchers

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Yields, Oil, US Dollar Rise, Equities Tepid: Stock Market Starts the Month With Mixed Signals

by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

The much-awaited August jobs report was released on Friday. While it came in higher than estimates—187K vs. 170K jobs created—there were other areas of the report that eclipsed the stronger-than-expected figure  Read More

The Final Bar

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Typical Tesla STALLS Out at 50-Day Moving Average

by David Keller

In this edition of StockCharts TV's The Final Bar, Dave wraps the market week with a discussion of higher interest rates, their implication for growth stocks, and why charts like TSLA shouldn't get an "all clear" until they break above the 50-day moving average  Read More

StockCharts In Focus

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Bottom-Up Stock Picking Made Easy with This Automated Scanning Set-Up

by Grayson Roze

On this week's edition of StockCharts TV's StockCharts in Focus, Grayson walks you through a "bottom-up" stock-picking approach that he uses daily on StockCharts, which helps him find the strongest stocks and best technical setups out there in the market  Read More

Top Advisors Corner

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Gold Starting New 13.5-Month Cycle

by Tom McClellan

Some analysts talk about seasonality in gold prices, but this does not make sense because of a very important factor. Gold prices have a dominant 13.5-month cycle, not an annual cycle, and so looking at annual seasonality does not make for reliable projections. This 13  Read More

GoNoGo Charts

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GNG TV: Examining MAJOR Pullbacks within Secular "Go" Trends

by Alex Cole, Tyler Wood

GoNoGo Charts help investors retain an objective evidence-based view on what is actually happening in the markets, and this week has shown the weight of the evidence on the side of the bulls  Read More

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Larry Williams Focus On Stocks

Focus on Stocks: September 2023

by Larry Williams

Cycle Deep Dive At times, it seems there are as many cycles as there are traders. I have been focusing on the shorter-term ones, those ranging from 2 to 5 years. Recently, I pondered on the clear fact that cycle forecasts work far better to spot market bottoms than tops  Read More

ChartWatchers

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Trading Against the Crowd with the Williams Sentiment Index

by Karl Montevirgen

Contrarian wisdom is nothing new to the market's ears, and it probably speaks to you with some familiarity. You know what it generally says "Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful  Read More

DecisionPoint

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Gold Buyers Should Remember FDR

by Carl Swenlin

With the Federal Government piling on debt at a record rate, many investors are looking to gold as a way to protect against all the bad things that could happen as a result of the reckless spending  Read More

The Final Bar

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Every One of These Breadth Conditions are SCREAMING Risk On!

by David Keller

In this edition of StockCharts TV's The Final Bar, TG Watkins of Simpler Trading shows how breadth conditions are very similar to previous bull market pullbacks  Read More

Stock Talk with Joe Rabil

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How to Spot the Early Signs of a Reversal Using ADX and DI Lines

by Joe Rabil

On this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe explains the importance of the DI lines when looking at the ADX indicator. He discusses how we can determine who is in control and when to be on the lookout for a reversal  Read More

The Final Bar

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The Long-Term Bull Case for Bitcoin

by David Keller

In this edition of StockCharts TV's The Final Bar, Adrien Zduńczyk of TheBirbNest charts Bitcoin's bounce off support at $25K and relates bullish Bitcoin trends to a broader risk appetite for investors  Read More

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Martin Pring's Market Roundup

Positive Confidence Ratios Argue for Higher Stocks

by Martin Pring

Traders and investors pay a lot of attention to surveys to assess swings in sentiment, but watching what people do with their money can often be just as informative, if not more so. The idea is to compare the performance of a risky asset with a more conservative one  Read More

Dave Landry's Trading Simplified

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What NOT To Do as a Trader

by Dave Landry

In this week's edition of Trading Simplified, Dave shows his methodology in action with a short side setup that recently triggered  Read More

ChartWatchers

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Find Reliable Entry Points With the Williams Insider Accumulation Index

by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

Whether you're bungee jumping or investing in the stock market, fear, uncertainty, and doubt can cause anxiety. The fear that inflation is still high and interest rates could rise, for example, makes investors further hesitant to invest in equities  Read More

Top Advisors Corner

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The Ord Oracle August 29, 2023

by Tim Ord

SPX Monitoring Purposes: Neutral. Gain since 12/20/22: 15.50% Monitoring Purposes GOLD: Long GDX on 10/9/20 at 40.78. Yesterday, we said, "the light blue-shaded areas are when the 18-day averages for up down volume percent and advance/decline percent for GDX are above -10  Read More

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John Murphy's Market Message

ANOTHER LOOK AT MARKET BREADTH

by John Murphy

ADVANCE-DECLINE LINE BOUNCING A glance at various measures of market breadth offers good and bad news. All of them are lagging behind the S&P 500 which is a caution sign. The good news is that they're bouncing off potential support lines  Read More

Mish's Market Minute

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The GDP PCE ADP Waltz

by Mish Schneider

Conference Board Economic Forecast: Looking into 2024, we expect the volatility that dominated the US economy over the pandemic period to diminish  Read More

The Final Bar

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Growth Stocks Shine in Short-Covering Rally

by David Keller

In this special edition of StockCharts TV's The Final Bar, Danielle Shay of Simpler Trading breaks down the current short-covering rally and walks through her current setups for QQQ, NVDA, MSFT, and TSLA  Read More

Chaikin Analytics

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The Halftime Show: Deciphering the Fed After Jackson Hole

by Pete Carmasino

In this week's edition of StockCharts TV's Halftime, Pete reexamines the chart he posted before the Jackson Hole meeting; Chairman Powell validated his thinking that the Fed Policy will remain tight until the unemployment rate increases  Read More

ChartWatchers

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Predicting Tomorrow's Price Movements Today: Introducing the Williams Cycle Forecast

by Karl Montevirgen

What if you had access to a forecasting tool capable of predicting the most likely path prices may take roughly in the next three months? The caveat here is that it can't accurately pinpoint the peaks and troughs, but it can approximate them with relative accuracy  Read More

RRG Charts

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Sector Spotlight: Three Takeaways from Seasonal Sector Rotation

by Julius de Kempenaer

In August's last regular episode of StockCharts TV's Sector Spotlight, I address the seasonal patterns in sector rotation and looks to find alignment with the current rotations as they are playing out on the Relative Rotation Graph  Read More

The Final Bar

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Will the Rotation to Small Caps Hold and Last THIS TIME?

by Mish Schneider

In this special edition of StockCharts TV's The Final Bar, guest host Mish Schneider (MarketGauge) steps in for Dave. Mish puts her own spin on the Market Recap, starting with the indices and exploring sectors using her "Economic Modern Family" analysis  Read More