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Now that April is in the books that old Wall Street adage of “Sell in May and Go Away” is making its annual tour around the world of financial media. The reason this is such a commonly...

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As May gets under way, it’s time to review positions with May options that remain open (haven’t already hit profit targets or been stopped out).

Most trades I put on for All Star Options tend to have a minimum duration of 30 days (short...

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The best part about the end of the month is that there's always a fresh batch of Monthly Charts waiting for us. We only perform this exercise once the candlesticks are completed, which in this case was...

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There has been a lot of chatter about the outperformance from Health Care recently. One of the industry groups benefitting from this strength has certainly been Biotechs so we're going to dive...

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Monthly charts help us focus on the long-term trend when volatility on lower timeframes picks up.

In this environment there are a lot of messy, sideways charts out there, so we're going to look at the clearest trends and focus on those.

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Gold bugs sure have a lot to chirp about these days with theoretically unlimited money printing happening here in the US and around the world.

And this chart showing the performance of Gold relative to the S&P 500 shows a definitive upward...

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If you are caught between a rock and a hard place, you are in a difficult situation where you have to choose between two equally unpleasant courses of action.

In many Indian stocks that is exactly where many market participants find themselves...

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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...

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Interest Rates continue to stabilize in the US and globally, setting the stage for rotation into several beaten-down areas of the Equity market...particularly in small banks.

This was a risk to...

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The Nifty IT Index remains subdued due to weakness in its largest components, like Tata Consultancy, but under the surface, there's been leaders like Info Edge (Naukri) trending well on an absolute or relative basis.

With that said, several...

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It would seem that the "new" economy we live in -- one where we order everything online for fear of walking into stores -- would benefit the companies that provide the infrastructure and transportation to make that happen. Fundamentally, that makes...

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Here is an update to our Bull Market Checklist of 20 Items.

*Note: The Sensitivity column represents how close the asset is to the risk level in question

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For the week ended Friday, April 24, 2020:

Every weekend we publish performance tables for a variety of different asset classes and categories along with commentary on each.

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The Nifty Financial Services Index continues to show relative weakness.

In this post, we're going to update our risk management levels, targets, and discuss the components within the index that are showing the most relative strength and...

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When analyzing the Gold Mining Sector, I can't help but think about the 1993 movie Dazed & Confused. One of the more popular lines in the film is the perfect way to explain what is currently happening in today's market.

In this scene ...

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The guys at ASC are out with a piece this week highlighting the weakness under the hood in some of the biggest sectors in the US Stock Market. Read it here.

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We have been writing a lot about risk-appetite lately as we're constantly trying to gauge the "animal spirits" at work in the markets.  Right now we're seeing a lack of participation from risk-...

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