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March 2022

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The Markets Have Bottomed - Here's Where You Need to be Investing

by Mary Ellen McGonagle

Over the past 2 weeks, the S&P 500 has managed to reverse a good part of this year's losses with a rally that's put the markets back into an uptrend that began on March 16th... Read More 

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Burglar or Bank Robber? Time to Watch Your Wallet and Stock Portfolio!

by Martin Pring

In October 2021, we made the case for a new secular commodity bull market and concluded that this environment would likely spill back into the economy and stock market... Read More 

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A New Round of Crypto Strength Seems to be Around the Corner!

by Julius de Kempenaer

The interest in Bitcoin or, more generally, cryptocurrencies comes and goes, and the moves are highly volatile from time to time... Read More 

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Is this Bear Market Rally Ending? These 2 Charts Will Tell Us

by Tom Bowley

Rallies and selloffs can be so crazy during volatile periods, and 2022 definitely qualifies as volatile. The Volatility Index ($VIX) has now been elevated and above 20 every single day since January 18th. That's roughly 9 weeks... Read More 

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Sector Watch? Healthcare Triggers an IT Trend Model "Silver Cross" BUY Signal

by Erin Swenlin

The Health Care sector (XLV) broke out from a strong resistance zone today. Better yet, we saw an IT Trend Model "Silver Cross" BUY signal as the 20-day EMA crossed above the 50-day EMA... Read More 

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Preserving Capital in a Challenging Environment

by John Hopkins

Back on December 31, 2021, our Chief Market Strategist Tom Bowley penned a ChartWatchers article titled "It Could be a Very Rough Start to 2022"... Read More 

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The Rally Ahead

by Greg Schnell

I think, if I had to pick something in the market that I see often which is misleading, I'd pick the previous historical models proudly rolled out... Read More 

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SPY Gets its Biggest Surge since November 2020. Is it Enough?

by Arthur Hill

The S&P 500 SPDR (SPY) surged 5.77% from Tuesday to Thursday and this was the biggest 3-day surge since the 6.07% advance on November 5th, 2020. This early November surge led to a breakout and the advance extended until January 2022... Read More 

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These Stocks Will Help You Hedge Against Inflation

by Mary Ellen McGonagle

As reported on Thursday, the rate of inflation in February rose to a 40-year high, with the U.S. facing even higher levels as the Russian war on Ukraine continues... Read More 

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Bottom Approaching, But One More Painful Leg Lower Remains

by Tom Bowley

We saw the latest CPI report (February) released on Thursday. It came in about as expected, with the February Core CPI rising 0.5%, matching consensus estimates. That sent the annual core inflation rate HIGHER (as I've previously suggested) to 6... Read More 

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Which Energy Stocks Should You Be Watching?

by Julius de Kempenaer

It's very clear that the Energy sector is the strongest sector inside the S&P 500 over the last several months. The tail on the Relative Rotation Graph above shows the rotation that the sector went through... Read More 

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These Three Charts Look Ready to Go Ballistic!

by Greg Schnell

Investing in March is bringing some new challenges to the world. If you have had massive success in Technology investing in the last ten years, then this article is for you... Read More 

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Technology Sector and Tech Indexes in "Official" Bear Markets

by Carl Swenlin, Erin Swenlin

It occurred to us, after we discussed the "Death Crosses" (50-day EMA dropping below the 200-day EMA) on the NDX and Nasdaq 100 in yesterday's subscriber-only DecisionPoint Alert, that we should investigate the actual damage done... Read More 

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Silver Plays Catchup with the Other Commodities

by Arthur Hill

The pickings are rather slim in the market with just 61 of the 276 ETFs in the TrendInvestorPro Master List in uptrends. Unsurprisingly, most of the ETFs in uptrends are related to commodities (energy, metals, agriculture)... Read More 

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Three Implications if Commodities Outperform Stocks

by Martin Pring

Chart 1 shows that, starting in early 2020, stocks began to slowly but quietly underperform commodities. Since the start of this year, though, this trend has begun to really accelerate on the downside, i.e. moving in favor of commodities... Read More 

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A Few Diamonds in the Rough

by John Hopkins

With the market in turmoil and volatility at a very high level, traders continue to be stymied -- it's tough to make any money unless you are decidedly short... Read More