During a quick perusal of ETFs today, I noticed some extremely rich volatility being priced into options on the Retailers ETF $XRT - which isn't entirely surprising given the price action over the past week.
In a further effort to identify individual equities that fit within our larger Macro thesis, we recently rolled out our latest bottoms-up scan: "The Minor Leaguers."
In light of this week's events, I hope it’s become more clear than ever to you that it is MUCH MORE important for traders & investors to focus on the behavior of markets...
We retired our "Five Bull Market Barometers" in mid-July to make room for a new weekly post that's focused on the three most important charts for the week ahead...
Earlier this week, the All Star Charts research team did a deep dive on China stocks. Say what you will about the political tension between our two countries, we speculators only...
This week Howard and I talk about the short squeezes happening in this market. We've seen it in GameStop $GME, Blackberry $BB and AMC Theatres $AMC. Are more of them coming? Why should investors care?
Years ago, early in our marriage, my wife and I went to a car dealership with her dad to make one of those all important, young couple purchases: a new car.
While my wife and her father were chatting with the salesman, I was all over the car...
Something we’ve been working on internally this year is using various bottoms-up tools and scans to complement our top-down approach. One way we’re doing...
Things are getting crazy out there. But this post isn't going to be about all the deadwood companies whose stocks are getting short squeezed. I'm looking at some of the biggest names showing signs of breaking out and this is something investors should...
The Percent of global markets trading above their 50-day average is faltering. It's dropped to 78% (83% for Developed Markets & 74% for Emerging Markets). Below 70% is a warning for the market, below 40% is usually bad news.
The market had given us an indication of a weakening short-term momentum at the end of last week. We thought this would be a good time to go through the sectoral indices to identify strengths and weaknesses.
