The headline you’ll hear is that unemployment rates are soaring to unprecedented levels. What I always like to point out is that stocks crashed months ago, collectively factoring in just that. Stocks are a discounting mechanism. It’s more obvious today than ever, and I think this is a nice reminder. [Read more…]
The Weakest Region In The World
From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza
There aren’t too many charts in the Equity Markets breaking out of decade-long bases on an absolute basis right now…
This week’s Mystery Chart was though, and the vast majority of you were buying it against former resistance turned support. We agree with that approach and would be doing the same here.
Thanks as always to all those who participated, but there’s just one catch…
The chart was inverted! This means most of you were actually selling the breakdown in the Latin America 40 ETF (ILF).
[Table Of The Week] A Look At The New Leadership
From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza
There has been a lot of talk about the potential implications on the broader market if Mega-Cap Growth and Technology stocks were to lose their leadership. Since they have been responsible for driving much of the gains in the major averages for years now… we can only ask ourselves, who might pick up the slack if and when this happens?
In this post, we’re going to analyze the top-performing areas today and compare them to their strength before the market crashed in February and March.
We’ll also look at the leaders from back then and see how they’re holding up today.
This will give us an idea of whether we really are undergoing a change in leadership or not, and if so, where the new areas of strength are.
Financials’ Lowest Relative Close Since March 2009
With Financials, arguably America’s most important sector, making lower lows relative to the rest of the market, it’s hard to see them emerge as new leaders. New decade+ relative lows in $XLF is not what you want to see if you think the stock market is going a lot higher. It’s actually the opposite.
I look at Regional Banks and wonder, Is this a major bottom? Or is this just a normal consolidation within an ongoing trend? So then I look at momentum in a bearish regime, and its parent sector, Financials, breaking down to the lowest levels relative to the S&P500 since March of 2009: [Read more…]
Five Bull Market Barometers
Bull market? Bear market? Sideways market? That is the question on everyone’s minds.
We’ve put together the five most important charts we’re monitoring to help answer that question.
The Definition Of Falling Knives
As Market Technicians, we don’t like catching falling knives. Today we want to reiterate several areas of the market that we either want to stay away from completely or even be shorting if you’re into that sort of thing.
Plus we’ll add a new index sector to our watchlist that’s in danger of becoming a “falling knife” of its own.
Mining For Long Setups in Gold
From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza
Gold (GLD) broke out of a multi-year base last year and has more or less been trending higher since. No new news there.
But as JC explained in a post last week, Gold Miners (GDX) have finally broken out of a 7-year base as well after recently taking out resistance at key prior highs.
Today we’re going to take a deeper look at the space.
We love setups like the one in Gold Miners right now. Not only did GDX resolve higher from a massive base but there is also a hefty amount of price memory at the breakout level which should act as solid support going forward.
All Star Interviews Season 3, Episode 22: Jeff deGraaf, Founder of Renaissance Macro Research
Jeff deGraaf is one of those analysts who influenced me very early on. Something I’ve always admired about him is how much emphasis he puts on first identifying what type of market environment we’re in, before then giving more or less weight to different tools and indicators. This is one of those important steps that I think gets forgotten quite often when you see investors trying to always incorporate a certain strategy or approach regardless of the environment. In this episode, Jeff compares this stock market crash, and subsequent recovery, to others in the past including 1987. He does a nice job of incorporating what is currently taking place in Bonds and Gold into his analysis for stocks. I think there are a lot of great lessons in this conversation with, who I believe, is one of the best Technical Analysts in the world today.
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