From a public markets perspective the Marijuana Industry is small, so small that it could go to zero tomorrow and nobody would notice. In late August we started covering the space after...
U.S. Stock Markets will only be open for a half day tomorrow Monday December 24th for Christmas Eve and closed on Christmas Day. And the following week will follow a similar pattern, being completely closed on Tuesday, January 1.
Somewhere along the way, a large majority of U.S. citizens convinced themselves that the market owes them something. They think that if they "invest" in the stock market, that they've somehow earned the right to make money over time. I'm not sure if...
Yesterday after the bell we sent out our Year End '18 ETF Risk Update to our Institutional Clients, covering 100+ of the most actionable and informative charts. To put this report together we...
The market is a beautiful thing, particularly the analysis of supply and demand behavior. I'm incredibly fortunate to be a practicing Technician for almost a decade and a half and have...
Bonds funds did a good job of getting everyone on the boat leaning one way, only to reverse and slam them in the other direction. The whole world seems to think interest rates have no where to go but up. However, those of us who follow the price of...
Bonds Funds are breaking out to new 3-month highs. This comes after consensus this September was for higher US rates, and therefore, lower prices for bonds. When the market is leaning too much in any one direction, the unwind of that extreme...
Coming down the homestretch of 2018 and Mother Market sure is making it interesting. Will a "Santa Claus" rally save global stocks? Or is the Grinch quietly whispering in her ear?
Speaking of the Grinch and classic holiday movies, my family's...
From where I sit, the correction in banks is a long way from being resolved, and one of the biggest names in the biz appears to be teetering on the edge of a much more significant drop than already experienced. It's now down for the year and...
So far in the early stages of this market correction (dare I say Bear Market? Too Soon?), I've been aggressively deploying Bear Call Spreads to attack bearish trading opportunities.
Bear Call Spreads are a version of a vertical spread...
There is a reason we look at the stock market from a global perspective. It's because we invest in a global market. Stocks in America weren't going up the past couple of years because of what was happening in DC or New York. Stocks in the U.S. were...
Some stocks are going up and most stocks are going down. That's been the trend over the past 10 weeks or so. There is nothing out of the ordinary about that and cash heavy positions have helped us tremendously during this period.
I'm not going to sugar coat it. There are numerous stocks and sectors that are hanging on the precipice that look like a small push could send their shares tumbling into a deep abyss. The Regional Banking Sector is one of these sectors. A quick scan...
A retail stock which earlier this year showed tremendous promise breaking out of a FIFTEEN YEAR base has faltered. And any regular reader of All Star Charts knows we're fans of the, "from failed moves come fast moves" phenomenon. In short, if a stock...
Two weeks ago we wrote that the weight of the evidence was suggesting the major indexes in India were getting ready to resume lower. While we were a few days early...
There have been many whipsaws in the Commodities' market as of late, with few intermediate-term trends allowing us to trade them with well-defined risk. Every now and again the market provides us with a clear opportunity, this time it's in the form of...
There's a saying among market participants that "all gaps need to be filled" or "all gaps are eventually filled", but as with most market generalizations, this saying...
