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All Star Interviews Season 2, Episode 6: Ryan Detrick of LPL Financial

September 20, 2018 by JC

In this episode I asked my friend Ryan Detrick to come talk about the quantitative work he does as part of the technical analysis he provides for advisors at LPL Financial. I have been following his work for years and have gotten to know Ryan well during that time. I was really looking forward to this conversation and it exceeded all of my expectations. Ryan does an excellent job of using basic mathematics to debunk popular myths told to investors about the market. We discuss the impact of a rising rate environment on U.S. stocks, the Yield Curve, Stock Market Seasonality and some of the things he is currently seeing in the market. This is a can’t-miss episode! [Read more…]

Bonds Could Be The Catalyst To Take Stocks Much Higher

September 16, 2018 by JC

There are tiny little irrelevant markets everywhere like Pot stocks and Crypto Currency. These could disappear tomorrow and it won’t matter. The sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds and other monster institutions that make markets move have to be in the bond market. They’re too big not to. So if you want an inside look at the money flow from one place to another, an intermarket approach really helps.

I’ve been a lonely stock market bull for most of this year. It feels like every time I’ve told people that I think we’re closer to the beginning of a bull market than the end, they think I’m crazy. That reaction has gotten me even more bullish. Not only does price continue to suggest we’re heading much higher, but sentiment and positioning points towards the same.

I’ve made the argument that Technology is going to take us much higher, as it is just now finally breaking out above the March 2000 highs. It took 17 years to digest those 1990s gains. We’re now just moving on. All that market cap getting going is one obvious catalyst that I’ve been talking about since last year.

Another big one has to be the bond market. If interest rates get going, selling in bonds is likely to continue. That money needs a home. Stocks and commodities are likely it. First, let’s see what rates themselves are signaling before making plans on what to do. Here is the U.S. 10-year yield. This month marks the 37th anniversary of the high in rates in 1981, about 5 months before I was born. I’ve known nothing but rising bond prices and falling interest rates: [Read more…]

Here’s What We See From The Monthly Candlesticks

August 31, 2018 by JC

This is easily the most valuable exercise I do each month. It takes me half an hour, just 12 times a year. It’s the best 6 hours I’ll spend in 2018. It helps eliminate the noise by forcing us to only look once a month. It brings us home, to the primary trend. It’s easy to get lost in the daily rhetoric. This part of the process helps us completely ignore that garbage and focus on what matters.

Here’s what we got this month: [Read more…]

[Free Chart of The Week] The Equity Interest Rate Barometer

August 2, 2018 by Tom Bruni

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

Interest rates are on the move, with the Ten-Year Treasury Yield breaking 3% once again after working off its failed breakout attempt from May. One relationship that’s highly correlated with the Ten-Year Yield is Regional Banks vs REITS. We’ve written about this relationship in 2016 and 2017, but it’s at an important inflection point so today’s chart is going to revisit it.

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[Premium] Monthly Conference Call Video Recording July 2018

July 20, 2018 by JC

This is the video recording of the July 2018 Conference Call. After reviewing approximately 5000 charts from all over the world, these are my conclusions.

First of all, there are exponentially more bullish looking stocks than bearish ones. This goes for both U.S. Stocks and those from all over the world. The Credit Markets are confirming this bullish outlook for stocks with risk appetite coming from the largest market in the world.

There are plenty of opportunities to make money this quarter and I tried my best to lay them out in an easy to follow process. Here is the video in full: [Read more…]

Why This Could Be A Historic Top In The US Bond Market

May 16, 2018 by JC

I’m not the kind of guy that likes to give funny names to price patterns in the market. For me, it’s more about the implications of that market behavior and less about what we call it. Today I want to take a look at US Treasury Bonds and what some price observers might refer to as a ‘Head & Shoulders Top’.

The reason this is a popular pattern is because, as humans, it is easy for us to identify and relate to. Each of us have a pair of shoulders and a head that stands in between and above them. In today’s chart, the Head and 2 Shoulders are fairly easy to point out. We’re looking at the US Treasury Bond ETF $TLT: [Read more…]

This Is Why We’re Buying Stocks

April 10, 2018 by JC

As homo sapiens we’re hard wired to feel the need to gossip. This goes back hundreds of thousands of years throughout evolution. We still see it today and through the speed of communication technology, that gossip gets amplified. While some would argue the issues of today’s society are unique, anyone who studies history knows that none of what we’re seeing today is new.

It’s our job as investors to be aware of this cognitive behavior flaw and work on avoiding the potentially disastrous implications of allowing our evolutionary gossip habits to enter into our portfolio decision making process. I’ve seen some amazing technicians and traders let their political opinions get in the way of their “process” and watched their horrible downfall. It’s been heart wrenching to watch, but the lessons learned by witnessing their collapse is something that will stay with me forever.

The current political and economic environment is unique in it’s own way, but they always are. Rather than focusing on the noise, I’ve found it extremely valuable to pay attention to the only thing that actually pays us: price.

I rip through 5000 charts a week, and most of the time even more than that. We’re talking U.S. Stocks and Sectors, European stocks, indexes and sectors, India, Southeast Asia and Latin America. I’m searching far and wide for signs of all of these troubles that I keep hearing about in the ~~gossip~~ news outlets. I just don’t see it. To the contrary, I see healthy sector rotation, consistency in positive breadth and momentum, and an overwhelming amount of bullish signs relative to any bearish ones.

You guys know which stocks and sectors I like. That hasn’t changed at all in the past week. So rather than reiterate some of the more favorable risk vs reward opportunists I see out there, the Trade Ideas page is available for Premium Members here. Instead, today I want to focus on a few things I see out in the world that make me look at the glass half full, rather than half empty like so many people I see doing out there. [Read more…]

[Premium] Bonds & Interest Rates: Now What?

March 6, 2018 by JC

U.S. Treasury Bonds have gotten absolutely destroyed, particularly on the shorter end of the curve. With interest rates exploding higher, money has been flowing beautifully out of the bond market. We’re obviously happy to see that. It took a little longer to get going than we originally wanted it to, but we got there. So now the reevaluation process is upon us.

Today I want to talk about what we want to do here with respect to Bonds and Interest Rates and what some of our options might be. [Read more…]