The process of our analysis is such that we look at a variety of charts in order to arrive at a view at any given point in time. To make sure we're identifying new trends that are developing in the market, we have several breadth indicators that we...
This week we're looking at two long setups this week. One in the Chemicals space and the second one in the Auto sector. While Chemicals have been among the gainers over the past few weeks, the Auto seems to be catching a bid off late.
We retired our "Five Bull Market Barometers" in mid-July to make room for a new weekly post that's focused on the three most important charts for the week ahead...
Every streak comes to an end. After a record 243 consecutive days of positive readings, the US economic surprise index slipped below the zero line this week. For a mean-reverting index that has...
I'll be honest with you. I've been on cruises before. I don't think I have a need to ever do them again. I mean, the time spent "in port" was where the real fun for me was. Time trapped on the boat? Meh.
It's always nice to sit down and talk about what the future is going to look like.
Currently, the largest hotel chain in the world doesn't own any hotels (Airbnb). The largest taxi cab company in the world doesn't own any taxi cabs (Uber)....
The market has been messy for a while and we've been reiterating that point for some time now. There are no new signals in terms of a direction, but we thought this is a good time to look at our risk metrics.
From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza and Grant Hawkridge @GrantHawkridge
In recent months, we've seen a rare bid in defensive assets as investors position for more mixed markets and messy action in the weeks and months ahead.
We recently had on a counter-trend trade in gold that worked out (we took off the trade at our profit target this week), and we're starting to see a similar rationale and setup in bonds.
I'm going to let Steve Strazza do most of the talking...
