I’m not sure if you guys noticed what’s been going on in Small-caps over the past couple of weeks, but I think it’s worth pointing out. First of all, remember this has been a tremendous lea...
It’s hard being a gold bug. They rarely ever get to be right. But why don’t they ever change their mind when the data changes? I don’t get it. There is nothing wrong with being bullish gold...
I’m sure by now you’ve had the time to digest the never ending headlines about an 8-year anniversary of a bull market for the S&P500. The problem with all of them is that the S&P500 has NOT b...
Emerging markets have been a real laggard. While developed markets around the world have been making new highs, it’s just now that emerging markets are catching up. This week the MSCI Emerging ...
It’s hard to ignore certain market moves that tend to be very rare. Bullish outside days that engulf the prior period are one of those. I think this is exactly what we saw this week in the AMEX...
Intermarket Analysis is a fantastic tool that is available to us as technicians regardless of our time horizon. Certain gauges of risk appetite, or risk aversion, can be seen simultaneously throu...
I’m lucky that I get a chance to read a lot and converse with really smart market participants all the time. So there are many lessons that I’ve gotten to learn the easy way, from my predeces...
I’m lucky in that I learned early in my career that we’re in a global market place. The United States, while it is certainly important, is just one country within a massive interconnected glo...
This weekend was one of the most amazing professional experiences of my life. I’m fortunate that I have friends who are really smart and willing to give up some of their time on a Saturday to s...
While so many people seem to be focused on the major US Indexes like the S&P500 or the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaching the irrelevant 20,000 level , I prefer to focus on individual stocks a...
When we look at stocks that continuously sell off when they hit a specific area, we call that “resistance”. But all that really means is that the market is suggesting there are more sellers t...
I like buying stocks that are going up. If there is anything that the market has taught us over the past hundred years is that market prices trend. The major averages, individual sectors, stocks,...
I love technical analysis. I really do. There’s no question that finding a nice chart brings a great amount of joy to my life. Today I want to share with you what I think is one of the most imp...
One of the more impressive moves that we’ve seen in 2016 is in the Industrial space. While we came into the year near multi-year lows on a relative basis (XLI/SPY), we entered December hitting ...
Most of us are here to try and make money in the market. Some others are just here to make noise and create content they think will help them drive traffic to sell ads. The importance of the Dow ...
For someone who uses Dow Theory every single day, it’s not something that I write about much. I may indirectly reference certain tenets all the time, but rarely do I write specifically about th...
One of the things that impresses me the most about Technology is the fact that Amazon, a stock up over 70% since February, isn’t even a tech stock. While some people like to argue that Amazon i...
This first appeared on Allstarcharts,com April 23, 2016 The only thing that pays us in this market is price. That’s it. So what we try and do is use a handful of supplemental indicators to h...
Once a week I do my Global Macro review where I annotate and take notes on every country’s index around the world. This analysis is on multiple timeframes so we focus on both the weekly timefra...
I think there is a nice shorting opportunity in General Electric that we can take advantage of this month. There’s nothing better than making money when a stock is falling. The reason is becaus...