Hi I’m J.C. and I’m a Technician.

I analyze the behavior of the market and market participants. I do this every day and have been doing this professionally for well over a decade. In 2008 I earned my Chartered Market Technician (CMT)...

Last week I shared a chart with you guys where I purposely left out the ticker symbol and y axis. The reason I post these mystery charts every now and then is to eliminate...

I think the bull case for the stock market starts with the European banks. When you talk about bull markets and uptrends, financials need to participate. There's no way around it. If you have European banks crashing to new multi-year lows, it's hard...

I'm a finalist at this year's Benzinga Fintech Awards in NYC! It's a huge honor to be included among some of the most innovative companies in the world today. This Awards Gala focuses on Fintech and we are up for Best Trade Ideas Research. I put in a...

The only thing that pays us in this market is price. That's it. So what we try and do is use a handful of supplemental indicators to help us identify when a change in trend is about to occur. One of the more helpful tools we have to achieve this is...

This morning I was on the Benzinga pre-market radio show, where I am invited to come on as a guest every other week. So basically twice a month a rap with the boys about the direction of the Stock Market, both U.S. and globally, Interest Rates &...

For long time readers of All Star Charts, you guys pretty much know my deal. I put in more work that most people and I include markets in my studies that the majority of investors choose to ignore. In order to take a weight-of-the-evidence approach to...

We’ve come a long way in the last 3 months.

Back in November of last year, I decided to start writing an “Open Letter About the Current Market Environment” and posting it on my blog. This was just a summary of what I call my “homework” (...

It's been awfully lonely being a China bull over the past couple of months. All I keep hearing is how China is falling apart and slowing and all sorts of negative sentiment towards the country and its stock market. In the real world, however, where we...