Expert technical analysis of financial markets by JC Parets
Going through charts this weekend, there are a few things that stood out.
First of all, the biggest company in the world is on pace to easily double in value in 2019. How do you think things are going around here? My bet is pretty darn good: [Read more…]
Robert Sluymer has been a Technical Analyst for close to 3 decades. I really enjoy his intermarket, global macro perspective and the way he brings it all together in a similar way to what we do at our shop. It was hard for me to really disagree with anything Rob said during this podcast episode. It seems to me like him and I are on the same page on many levels. I didn’t make it easy on him, but he certainly brought the goods. I really enjoyed this episode from someone who brings 27 years of institutional experience at RBC and is now at an independent shop at Fundstrat. We discussed Bitcoin, the S&P500, Sector Rotation, Bonds and Precious Metals. This was a good one! Give it a listen [Read more…]
What do we know about all-time highs? They are not a characteristic of a downtrend. New all-time highs are things we see when we’re in a market environment where it is more advantageous to be buying stocks rather them selling them. This is what we have today, whether you like it or not.
The market doesn’t care that you don’t like the president. The market doesn’t care that you think this is only because of buybacks. The market doesn’t care that you think this is fed driven. THE MARKET DOES NOT CARE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT ANYTHING.
EVER.
Anyway, on Halloween we got new all-time monthly closing highs in the S&P500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Global 100 Index, Nasdaq Composite, Nasdaq 100, S&P 1500, Dow Jones Composite Average, Consumer Discretionary Index, Technology Index, Semiconductor Index, US Real Estate Index, J.P. Morgan Chase, Microsoft, Apple, Google, the Europe Hedged Index Fund and Brazil’s Bovespa, among many others.
Are these reasons to now all of a sudden start selling stocks? My argument is no. [Read more…]
From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting
Tuesday’s Mystery Chart is one of the most interesting charts right now, so thank you all for your feedback and participation.
Most people were on the same page in saying they wanted to short the breakdown, while others wanted to avoid the mess entirely until there’s a decisive break.
With that as our backdrop, let’s get into it.
I think it’s fair to say we options traders — and really all traders — see and think about the world around us differently. I mean, who has conversations like this? [Read more…]
This is a lesson I had to learn the hard way for sure. Early in my career I used to always want to be trading the Russell 2000 or the Nasdaq and sometimes even S&P futures. Some people can do this successfully. Most cannot.
A wise Egyptian man once taught me that, If you trade the Averages, You’ll Get Average Returns. This made a lot of sense to me when he first said it, because I didn’t have great experiences with that strategy up until that point.
The reason I bring this up today is NOT to convince you not to trade the index ETFs or Futures. You do what you have to do! The point of this post is as a reminder that we use Technical Analysis to identify trends. These trends are in all asset classes – Stocks, Bonds, Commodities, Currencies, Interemarket relationships, Crypto and others. Once we identify the trend, then we can figure out the best way to try to profit from its theme of rising or falling prices.
We’ve been in the camp that US Stocks have been in a sideways range since January of 2018, over 21 months. You can call this a cyclical bear market. You can call it a sideways range. Pick your preferred nomenclature and let’s move on. [Read more…]
From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting
New Mystery Chart!
For those new to the exercise, we take a chart of interest and remove the x/y-axes and any other labels that would help identify it. The chart can be any security in any asset class on any timeframe on an absolute or relative basis. Maybe it’s a custom index or inverted, who knows!
We do all this to put aside the biases we have associated with this specific security/the market and come to a conclusion based solely on price.
You can guess what it is if you must, but the real value comes from sharing what you would do right now. Buy, Sell, or Do Nothing?
From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting
Saturday I spoke at the Trade Ideas Summit in San Diego, outlining our bullish case for US Equities. It was a lot of fun and you can register here to receive the presentation replay when it becomes available.
Today, JC followed up on our recent posts by confirming that new all-time highs are indeed not a characteristic of a downtrend.
In honor of the new all-time closing highs in the Russell 3000, S&P 500, and Nasdaq 100, I want to outline several stocks we want to be buying to take advantage of our bullish Equities thesis.
