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Something hit me today while going through market data and it reminded me of traps I fell into early in my investing journey.

You study the books, you fall in love with the concepts and then it happens.

You start spotting “problems.”...

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Core Leadership Model 03162026

Today's number is... –5.2

My Core Leadership Model sits at –5.2, deep in the weak leadership zone.

Here’s the chart:

 

Let's break down what the chart shows:

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The Daily Number
Grant
Adobe beat expectations and got crushed. Lennar missed and rallied.

Earnings season is starting to slow down, but the reactions we’re seeing right now are anything but quiet.

Some companies are delivering better-than-expected results and still getting punished. 

Others are missing estimates and...

Daily Beat
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Welcome to The Squeeze Watch.

Relative strength remains in semiconductors. Some names continue to display upside momentum, even in an increasingly shaky tape. Here’s today’s standout: 

 

Micron...

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Size, Conviction, and a Clear Energy Thesis

Every weekend I dig through the names that experienced the most interesting unusual options activity. 

We’re looking for trades that stood out, whether it was large in size or a very aggressive strike selection.

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The Bounce
The Hopeful "Bounce"

Welcome back to The Sunday Stalk List.

Every weekend, I review hundreds if not thousands of charts across U.S. indices, global markets, breadth, sentiment, and intermarket relationships.

And now I’m opening up my stalk list.

The...

Thompson's Two Cents
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Here's what you need to know.

Earnings season is where narratives collide with reality.

Every quarter, companies step up and show investors what’s actually happening beneath the surface of the economy. Sometimes those reports confirm the trend. 

Other times, they...

Daily Beat
macke gas prices

Let’s keep this super simple: Gas prices spiking higher is bad for consumer stocks. Not only consumer stocks, but consumer stocks in particular. 

Here’s a 1mo chart of average gas prices in the US, per GasBuddy:

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The Macke Letter
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The Macke Letter
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Buying a coil with exposure to oil

Welcome back for another Top Down Trade of the Week.

This is a classic leadership scan.

We start with the best sectors, then drill into the subgroups. We pick one, and then take a look at...

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This is the weekly post that aggregates all the charts we put together throughout the week and organizes them all into one, easy to flip through deck.

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Satellites, Servers, and Short Sellers

This note highlights a select group of stocks showing the most unusual — and highly directional — options activity.

The goal is simple: follow the big money and trade in the direction of the underlying...

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Follow The Flow
Steve Strazza

Every day, we sift through the filings to spot where the real conviction lies – cutting through the noise to highlight the most meaningful insider moves.

📌 Kosmos Energy $KOS — Chairman & CEO, CFO,...

The Hot Corner
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Petrochemical stocks are breaking out as the energy bull market continues to expand.

Over the past few weeks here in Commodities Weekly, we’ve been pounding the table on one thing: this commodity bull market is alive and...

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every day

We're wrapping up our series on the five Fundamental Truths from Mark Douglas's Trading in the Zone. If you missed the earlier posts, we covered anything can happen, you don't need to know what happens next to make money, there's a random...

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Welcome to The Squeeze Watch.

Many important themes and groups in the market are sitting at critical polarity levels.Here’s today’s standout: 

 

ARK Innovation ETF  $ARKK is currently exhibiting...

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From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Our International Hall of Famers list is composed of the 100 largest US-listed international stocks, or ADRs.

We've also sprinkled in some of the largest ADRs...

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Strong results weren’t enough to overcome a major technical barrier on the chart.

Discount giant Dollar General $DG delivered another earnings before Thursday's opening bell… but the market wasn’t impressed.

Shares of the $30B retailer fell sharply during yesterday's trading session, ending a five-quarter streak of positive...

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