In bear markets you tend to get more and more stocks making new lows.

We haven't seen that.

In bull markets you tend to get more...

Look, we're not going to sugarcoat it: it's hard out there right now.

Regardless of your timeframe, if you're trying to make aggressive long or short bets in this tape, you're getting chopped up. So are we.

These types of markets grind...

The best trade I ever executed was a loss.

That is not a typo. I lost money on this trade. Actually, it was a series of trades. But it was executed with one decision and one combination of keystrokes.

It was the summer of 1998, and it...

It's no secret.

Crypto and legacy markets have traded together for some time now. Apart from the recent lack of volatility in the former, it's all been one market.

We don't need to overcomplicate this.

Just look at the ratio of...

You know me by now, I prefer to look underneath the surface to see what's actually happening in the markets every day.

The headline number of,...

In bear markets you'll find that the majority of stocks are making lower lows and lower highs in price.

With basic arithmetic, we can call those downtrends.

A funny thing tends to happen near the end of important trends.

The journalists finally catch on.

It's never at the beginning of...

Is it a bear market or a bull market, JC?

Are you bullish or bearish, JC?

The way I learned it was that we want to buy stocks when the journalists put a chart on the cover of a magazine.

I like to pick on The Economist because they have such a...

According to the Wall Street Journal, options volume continues to explode – driven primarily by the growing popularity of...

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza and Alfonso Depablos @AlfCharts

We held our October Monthly Strategy Session Monday night. Premium Members can access and...

From the Desk of Louis Sykes @haumicharts

One of our favorite anecdotal indicators is the classic magazine cover.

Journalists do a tremendous job of aggregating consumer and investor sentiment.

By the time these magazines...

People get so angry when I tell them that Energy stocks haven't even broken out yet...

The historic outperformance in Energy over the past 2 years is just the pregame....

Even though stocks have broadly advanced on the first two trading days of October and Q4, today's market action reminds players that stocks are still risky here and the options market continues to price in this fear in the form of higher than normal...