I think whether you’re bullish or bearish, we can all agree that if the world is coming to an end, financials will be front and center leading the march down to zero.
What if it’s like this? [Read more…]
Expert technical analysis of financial markets by JC Parets
by JC
I think whether you’re bullish or bearish, we can all agree that if the world is coming to an end, financials will be front and center leading the march down to zero.
What if it’s like this? [Read more…]
It is undeniable that the current market environment is rapidly weeding out companies that cannot survive in a digital world, and handsomely rewarding those that can.
And it isn’t always the super high tech, VC-backed, trendy startup company that benefits. There are plenty of “old-school” names positioning themselves for the new reality of commerce in our new world. Thankfully, we don’t need to be “futurists” who can predict the future of social, economic, and government trends. All we need to do is keep a careful eye on where investors are allocating capital and the resulting price action tells us everything we need to know.
Our trade idea today is in one of those old school retailers that’s reinventing itself in new school ways. [Read more…]
by Louis Sykes
From the desk of Louis Sykes @haumicharts
Welcome to this week’s edition of the ‘Louis’ Look’ column.
Every week I write a piece documenting what I’m learning through my internship at All Star Charts. You can read the previous post here. This week’s edition is a shorter one to keep on today’s theme of simplicity, so let’s jump right into it.
by JC
JC, What do you mean rotation into the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
This is a bubble!
It can’t possibly be the beginning of the Dow’s move.
Wait, can it?
Well, despite all the hype about a bubble and the ridiculous rhetoric about a dislocation between wall street and main street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hasn’t really done much the past 10 weeks. It hasn’t made much progress at all, even if you include the past 2 weeks of gains. In fact, the last 2 weeks are all the gains since early June.
Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Transportation average has been the leader and broke out above those former June highs a while ago: [Read more…]
From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza.
Welcome to this week’s edition of “Under The Hood.”
What we do is analyze the most popular stocks over the trailing week and find opportunities to either join in and ride these momentum names higher, or fade the crowd and bet against them.
We have some new additions coming for how we generate the list of most popular names, which we’ll explain more each week as we add new data sets. There are so many new data sources popping up that all we need to do is organize them in a way that shows us exactly what we want: A list of stocks that are seeing an unusual increase in investor interest.
The S&P 500 finally achieved new highs this week. The market is clicking on all cylinders as breadth and participation continues to broaden, and favorable risk/reward setups are popping up all over the place. Let’s dive into the most popular tickers this week and see what’s going on “under the hood” in these hot names.
by JC
This week on Happy Hour with Traders, I brought together some of the best minds when it comes to stock market breadth. You see all the breadth charts on twitter and you always hear debate about whether market breadth is weakening or improving. I think this round table discussion clears up a lot of misconceptions about the subject. I think it also gave each of us new ideas about how to approach the market from a weight-of-the-evidence perspective. I know I definitely got some new ideas that I want to start to do some more work on.
This is why we have these conversions. I’m fortunate to have really smart friends around the world that all view markets in their own unique ways. So I’m going to try my best to show them off so you can learn from them too!
Here’s the latest Happy Hour with special guests Andrew Thrasher, Willie Delwiche, Mike Hurley and Steve Strazza. Enjoy!
by Tom Bruni
From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting
The Fixed Income, Commodity, and Currency markets are near and dear to my heart. Ever since I began learning Technical Analysis, I’ve always loved analyzing things that are “off the beaten path.” This included everything from Interest Rates to Soybeans to the Norwegian Krone. Equities are great and all, but this is the stuff that gets me up in the morning.
In addition to the blog posts we do on the site, I’ve wanted to explore new ways to share that passion with you all and show why even if you’re not investing in these markets directly, they’re worth paying attention to.
That brings us to my weekly show, “What The FICC?”
In this weekly video series, I’ll be highlighting the most important chart or theme from these three asset classes while doing my best to tie that analysis back to Equities through an intermarket signal or a trade idea.
This week’s episode is linked below, enjoy!
I know, I know. I’m showing my age with this reference. But even this one is old for me. But it goes with the theme for today’s trade:
We want to be buying stocks in the healthcare tech space. And today’s trade is in a stock that looks ready to resume it’s march higher. [Read more…]