Inflection point I wanted to send out a quick video to highlight some of the charts that I am watching. Most of which look eerily similar to 2016. The bottom line is that the market could be at an inflection point and what happens over the coming...
Category - Market/Account Updates
Stock Market Risk Elevated and Rising
In our June 24, 2019, August 5, 2019, and August 11, 2019 market updates I explained how market technicals were suggesting that stock market risk was elevated and the odds of a market correction had increased significantly. Even though I was seeing...
Stock Market/Client Account Update
In our June 24, 2019 and August 5, 2019 market update newsletters we explained how market technicals were suggesting that stock market risk was elevated and the odds of a market correction had increased significantly. In today’s video we...
Stock Market Walking a Tightrope
As I have mentioned in previous updates, I am bullish on the stock market. However, many of the long-term charts have been showing negative divergences that continue to build. These divergences can last for very long periods of time so they are not...
Market Still Bullish
Market Update The weight of the technical evidence remains bullish. Market breadth is still positive and the market (S&P 500 index) is trading above both it’s 200 and 50-day moving averages. The pullback in stocks that occurred last month...
Tariffs and a Stock Market Sell-Off
Trade wars are back in the news and the financial markets are worried about a breakdown in trade negotiations that could result in Trump raising tariffs on Chinese goods by the end of the week. As I mentioned in my May 2019 Newsletter, the stock...
Market Ripe For a Short-Term Pullback
We did get a bullish breadth thrust with the advance off the December lows and this suggests that stocks should be bullish over the intermediate-term. Short-term breadth, however, is suggesting that the market is ripe for some type of near-term...
Client Account/Market Update
Going into 2018 everyone was bullish, including me. We were experiencing one of the longest bull markets ever, stocks had advanced strongly the year prior with hardly any volatility, and January didn’t disappoint with a parabolic move higher...
If It Walks Like A Duck….
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. Even if it technically is not a duck – yet. The S&P 500 has not fallen 20% yet, so technically the current market correction can’t be defined as a...
Can Wood Forecast Stock Prices?
Believe it or not, wood is a good economic indicator and thus has historically been pretty accurate at forecasting impending economic/stock market weakness. When the economy transitions from strength to weakness, one of the first industry groups to...