I love it when steady dividend payers breakout to all-time highs. What's better than a stock breaking into blue skies and paying you a dividend to hold on? In the recent All Star Charts monthly conference call, JC uncovered an opportunity in an...
Weekends are great to just take a step back and see what is actually going on. It's really easy to get caught up in the day to day noise. I talk about the power of ...
I've been in the camp that this 20-month consolidation in the U.S. Stock Market is just that, a consolidation within an ongoing uptrend that started in early 2016, or 2013, or even further back depending on who you ask....
In this Episode of Allstarcharts Weekly, Steve and I talk about how the spike in Crude Oil earlier this week is impacting Energy Stocks. When we look specifically at the Oil &...
All else being equal, when deciding between two or three viable trades, I'll often choose the one that offers me the best opportunity to neutralize my "greeks risk." Meaning, if my overall portfolio is leaning a little long delta, I might favor the...
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...
We continue to see prices in the major indices bounce as breadth and momentum divergences remain intact, however, many of the trades we've outlined have moved away from their...
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...
We've all been there and we've all seen others do it to. We get one data point and then all of sudden we're drawing direct conclusions based on that number. Think about how silly it sounds to make decisions based on a government report or even single...
You've got to love a stock breaking out of a seven-year base and doing so with options pricing in the lowest volatility levels all year. And when it is in a strong sector that has been among the leaders all year, I'm licking my chops.
One of my favorite parts of living in Sonoma, CA is going to the local market. I'm right in the heart of wine country so anything protein or produce is going to be off the charts. On the way out of the store on weekends and/or early in the week, it...
When was the last time Small-caps were not a mess? At least a year now right?
The bearish argument has been that small-caps (and others) are underperforming the large-cap stocks and therefore, the divergence is a warning signal that...
In this Episode of Allstarcharts Weekly, Steve and I talk about the fact that the only sectors making both weekly and monthly all-time highs are Consumer Staples, Utilities and...
In elementary school, nothing was more interesting to me than Space. And a quick look at my Lego collection would confirm this in two seconds flat. I was obsessed. But more in the "great unknown" way. So many questions. So many possibilities.
