While updating our Members-Only Chartbooks today we came across two major breakouts that need to be pointed out as they play key roles in the Infrastructure and Public Sector Bank Sectors.
Let’s take a look.
Canada Update
From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting
On May 1st, we wrote an update called “Canada or Cantada” going through the major sectors/indexes to provide a view on how we wanted to approach Canadian Equities.
[Premium] May Monthly Charts
In this post, we’re going to outline the most significant charts/updates since April’s post. [Read more…]
[Premium] A “Beautiful” Long Opportunity
From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting
Stocks showing relative strength in this environment remain on our radar since the list of them has shrunk day by day over the last month.
For our Institutional Clients, we provide more tactical trade ideas or “plus-ones” that don’t necessarily fit a broader theme but are still an attractive opportunity worth exploring.
Today I want to share one of those ideas from a subsector of the market that may surprise you…Retail.
[Charts of The Week] Finding Alpha In Flat Markets
From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting
Wall Street is a game of relative performance and we each are tasked with our own mandates/constraints in managing our portfolios.
The good news is that even when the market is a hot mess on an absolute basis, there are still plenty of ways to find performance within the context of those constraints.
If you need to have most of your capital allocated most of the time, then your focus is on either avoiding/shorting areas of relative weakness and owning areas of relative strength.
If you have the flexibility to raise cash and go to the beach or have short exposure on your books, that works too.
[Premium]The Good and Bad of US Stocks
From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting
At the beginning of May, we put out a note about the failed breakout in many of the major indexes and why a more cautious stance was warranted for US and global equities. The divergences we were seeing slowly add up had finally been confirmed by price and we raised cash and stepped aside.
Since then, patience has paid if you let it.
Lack of trend, not just in the US, but globally, has been THE theme.
A month later, let’s look at what’s changed since then and if our gameplan needs to be adjusted at all.
[Options Premium] Positions Review Headed into June Expiration
As we head into June Expiration, there are a number of open positions with options expiring in June that may need some attention. Generally speaking as we approach any expiration, it is a Best Practice to begin aggressively weeding out or rolling out positions that aren’t working. Why? For long premium plays, unless positions are comfortably in-the-money, theta decay will begin to accelerate and whatever premium is left in our options will quickly disappear. For short premium plays where we haven’t yet reached our profit target, gamma becomes our enemy making our position more sensitive to fluctuations of the underlying. A small winner/loser could quickly get away from us. Best to roll it out to the next monthly expiration cycle to buy ourselves more time, or close it down and look for newer/better opportunities.
In no particular order, here are some currently open positions with June options that we’ll be looking to take action on next week: [Read more…]
The Perfectionism Crutch
From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting
Two weeks ago I was scheduled to film two segments for Real Vision and the experience brought up a good topic that I’ve been meaning to write about using my personal experience; Perfectionism.
The night before I was supposed to film the segments I didn’t get much sleep, hadn’t exercised in a few days, and just wasn’t feeling 100%. Needless to say, these were not the conditions I’d prefer for important filming.*
Regardless, I’d agreed to do it and I needed to show up and do the work.
Now that I’ve had time to reflect, let’s see what perfectionism, failure, and fear of “shipping” have got to do with that experience.
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