With Financials, arguably America's most important sector, making lower lows relative to the rest of the market, it's hard to see them emerge as new leaders. New decade+ relative lows in $XLF is not what you want to see if you think the stock market...

Bull market? Bear market? Sideways market? That is the question on everyone's minds.

We've put together the five most important charts we're monitoring to help answer that question.

As Market Technicians, we don't like catching falling knives. Today we want to reiterate several areas of the market that we either want to stay away from...

Jeff deGraaf is one of those analysts who influenced me very early on. Something I've always admired about him is...

JC recently posted some of the best charts from our US Chartbook, so I wanted to share those along with...

Weekends are a great time to take a step back and rip through thousands of charts to see what's really going on. The S&P500, Dow and all those other indexes can only provide so much information. At a certain point, you need to get your hands dirty...

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

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...

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...

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

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...

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.

Yesterday we outlined the sector rotation that's occurring out of winners and into beaten-down stocks. Given the follow-through in US markets, we expect that to continue in...

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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...

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...

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...

Did you notice how Stocks, Bonds and Gold are all at or near 34-day highs?

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...

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

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-...

Reliance Industries is in the news this week due to an investment from Facebook in JioMart.

Regardless of the fundamental merits or impact of this deal, let's analyze the charts and see how the market's digesting this information.