From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

In recent weeks, we've witnessed a powerful rotation as many of the secular laggards have assumed short-term...

This is a market of stocks, and not just a "stock market".

All of these Indexes, from the Dow Jones Industrial Average to the Russell2000 Small-caps, are made up of components. There are 30 stocks in the Dow and 2000 stocks in the Russell2K,...

We've been writing about how the momentum is to the upside for the last few weeks, but now prices are testing overhead supply across all the major Nifty indices.

If you haven't read...

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Thanks to everyone for participating in this week's Mystery Chart. It was a bit of a layup, as most of you were...

Consolidations tend to resolve in the direction of the underlying trend. But when they don't, that's the signal!

An oldie but goodie from the past, that I always think about when this comes up, is the US Treasury Bond Fund back in the...

Looking at Monthly Charts only takes about an hour per month and is one of the most valuable exercises in our process. By focusing on the long-term, we can filter out the noise and identify what's really happening with a stock, index, etc.

In...

Today I want to talk about how important it is to know what's inside the index funds you own. In many cases they can be misleading. Something like the Dollar Index, for example, which is basically 60% Euro, is not exactly the best barometer of the "U....

Friday was a great day in my life. Not only did we get new Weekly Charts, as we normally do on Fridays, but we also got a fresh batch of Monthly Charts to analyze as well. These...

Earlier this month we outlined the "Five Bull Market Barometers" we're watching to identify the beginning of a new bull market in stocks.

In...

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

We write a lot about focusing on the secular leaders in each sector and industry. Whether it's online retail, medical...

This is a special weekend. The close on Friday marks the end of the day, week and month. That means we have a fresh batch of weekly AND monthly charts waiting for us. This process provides a lot of information because, by stepping back, it forces us...

The market remains a hot mess where we're preferring market-neutral trades, however, some absolute trades are appropriate when the reward/risk is skewed heavily in our...

We remain in an environment where there are stocks going up, stocks going down, and many stocks doing a whole lot of nothing.

We're being very selective...

In late April we highlighted the relative weakness in the Nifty Financial Services Index and highlighted several individual stocks that stood out as leaders and laggards....

Bharti Airtel is in the news this week as its parent company Bharti Telecom decides to sell $1bn in stock to retire debt.

We highlighted Bharti Airtel ahead of its...

We've been using our "Five Bull Market Barometers" to measure the long-term health of the market and remain in the camp that risk in Equities remains elevated....

Why does Technical Analysis work? Because markets trend. No one can argue that. I don't care who you are. And what do we do as technicians? We look for trends!

I was...

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Lots of charts are being shared showing the exponential growth in trading activity, new accounts, and anything else that might paint a story of euphoria at retail and discount brokerages since...

Earlier this month we outlined the "Five Bull Market Barometers" we're watching to identify the beginning of a new bull market in stocks.

In...