ChartWatchers June 28, 2019 at 09:46 PM
Let me start by saying that we track a "Best of the Best" list at EarningsBeats.com. Technically, it's actually 3 "Best of the Best" lists - a Model Portfolio, an Aggressive Portfolio and an Income Portfolio... Read More
ChartWatchers June 28, 2019 at 08:08 PM
The IPO frenzy has been well-documented this year, with CrowdStrike, Beyond Meat, Slack, Pinterest, Uber and Lyft all garnering media attention. One thing that can happen with IPOs is a sudden surge in either direction... Read More
ChartWatchers June 28, 2019 at 06:04 PM
Be prepared! I have a plethora of charts this week to share that focus only on the S&P 600. If you look closely, you can see that, even before the last two days of an impressive rally, the indicators were already suggesting a renewed interest in small-cap stocks... Read More
ChartWatchers June 28, 2019 at 04:50 PM
Breakouts are bullish and often look great, but they do not always offer the best reward-to-risk ratio when taking a trade. As with so many aspects of technical analysis and trading, we must often walk the fine line between anticipation and confirmation... Read More
ChartWatchers June 28, 2019 at 03:43 PM
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in John Murphy's Market Message on Thursday, June 27th at 3:49pm ET... Read More
ChartWatchers June 21, 2019 at 08:44 PM
June is shaping up to be quite a month, with the S&P 500 on track to outpace January as the best-performing period. Of special note is this week’s move into Biotechnology and Small Cap stocks, which both have struggled since stalling out in February... Read More
ChartWatchers June 21, 2019 at 06:43 PM
The price of gold ($GOLD) closed on Friday at $1400.10 per ounce. The weekly gain of 4.14% was the best such weekly advance since April 2016 and the close above $1400 was the first such close since September 3, 2013... Read More
ChartWatchers June 21, 2019 at 03:48 PM
Has the slow and grinding uptrend in the US Dollar finally reached its exhaustion point? A quick review of the charts suggests this may be the case... Read More
ChartWatchers June 21, 2019 at 02:26 PM
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in Martin Pring's Market Roundup on Tuesday, June 18th at 2:30pm ET. Several reliable short-term oscillators have just turned bullish. Chart 5, for instance, features my Dow Diffusion Indicator... Read More
ChartWatchers June 21, 2019 at 02:15 PM
On the above Relative Rotation Graph, which shows the rotation for international stock indexes against the Dow Jones World index, we really ought to pay attention to the long tail inside the weakening quadrant for the Chinese market... Read More
ChartWatchers June 14, 2019 at 06:06 PM
Viewers of MarketWatchers LIVE know how much I rely on my scans to find all those interesting symbols I review... Read More
ChartWatchers June 14, 2019 at 05:38 PM
At EarningsBeats.com, we track the best U.S. companies in a "Strong Earnings ChartList... Read More
ChartWatchers June 14, 2019 at 02:48 PM
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in John Murphy's Market Message on Friday, June 14th at 1:20pm ET. Chart 1 is taken from the Sector Summary page for the past month. And it shows that investors are still gravitating toward defensive issues... Read More
ChartWatchers June 14, 2019 at 02:40 PM
Many a pundit considers small-caps as the canaries in the coal mine and this implies that relative weakness in small-caps is negative for the broader market. As Missanei of Game of Thrones might say: It is known... Read More
ChartWatchers June 14, 2019 at 01:24 PM
Commodities have been smothered for years. I think the best way to play them is to enter near the bottom - with tight stops - and subsequently ride out the runs. When they top out, step aside as they pull back. We can use indicators to help us find setups... Read More
ChartWatchers June 07, 2019 at 10:53 PM
Yesterday, I had a great roundtable with Tom Bowley and Erin Swenlin on MarketWatchers Live, where Erin and I discussed comparisons between gold and Bitcoin. Now, at first glance, that might seem like a bit of a spurious comparison... Read More
ChartWatchers June 07, 2019 at 09:00 PM
I'm going to say that you need elements of both, although you're going to want a much bigger helping of relative strength. Too much diversification can be extremely unhealthy, there needs to be a balance... Read More
ChartWatchers June 07, 2019 at 08:28 PM
By all accounts, people enjoy eating out, with the National Restaurant Association projecting a record high in U.S. restaurant sales at $863 billion this year, up 3.6% from last year... Read More
ChartWatchers June 07, 2019 at 03:22 PM
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in Martin Pring's Market Roundup on Tuesday, June 4th at 2:57pm ET. From a long-term aspect, Gold looks as though it is in the process of duplicating its action at the turn of the century by forming a huge base... Read More
ChartWatchers June 07, 2019 at 03:04 PM
While browsing through the stocks in the DJ Industrials index, my attention was grabbed by the tails on KO and MCD, both in a positive way. KO is making a wide rotation through lagging into improving and is now very close to crossing over into the leading quadrant... Read More
ChartWatchers May 31, 2019 at 11:18 PM
This week, all four of the Scoreboard indexes (SPX, OEX, NDX, Dow) switched to IT Trend Model Neutral signals. This is just added insult to injury, given the ST Neutral and SELL signals that posted earlier this month... Read More
ChartWatchers May 31, 2019 at 08:34 PM
As I have mentioned in the last three Market Roundup shows (which you can find here on the StockCharts YouTube channel), the Gold-related charts have been setting up for weeks now... Read More
