In bear markets you'll find that the majority of stocks are making lower lows and lower highs in price.

With basic arithmetic, we can call those downtrends.

People get so angry when I tell them that Energy stocks haven't even broken out yet...

The historic outperformance in Energy over the past 2 years is just the pregame....

You see what just a little bit of Dollar weakness does to this market?

I'm telling you. I'm not making this up.

Now here's the...

Here we are back to the June lows in both the S&P500 and Nasdaq100.

Support held for a few days this week at the same prices that it held 3 months ago:

The math has been simple.

When the Dollar is doing well, stocks don't.

And when the Dollar is weakening, stocks are strong.

Markets trade in cycles.

We've seen these cycles play out over and over again throughout many decades.

But how do we profit from...

Great weekend of Charts and Football for me!

How about you?

More Charts than Football? Or the other way around?

Here's something you don't see every day.

Silver showing a bullish divergence?

How could this ...

You know how I know we've been in a bear market?

Because investors got hammered. And not just in 2022, but over the past year and half.

Have you noticed that stocks aren't getting oversold?

So not only did the new lows list go quiet, since peaking almost 3 months ago, but stocks aren't even seeing oversold...

You've heard me say it a million times by now.

It's going to be really difficult to make money long most stocks or crypto the rest of the year if the US Dollar remains...

Remember when the stock market peaked in February 2021?

That's when the New highs list peaked. That's when the Nasdaq Advance-Decline line peaked. That's when Chinese...

There's one major catalyst that can be a wrecking ball in a potential bull market for stocks.

What's going to stop a year-end rally?

Have you taken a look at the new 52-week high list lately?

You're going to find a bunch of materials starting to pop up.

Here are...

The average stock on the Nasdaq bounced over 40% off it's lows this summer.

That's a serious squeeze.

But let's remember that a...

Gas prices are going up?

Good.

That means our Energy stocks are probably doing well.

...

The market has set the stage.

From a seasonal perspective, the back half of the year should be strong.

When you consider the...

We never actually know that we've been in a bull market until well after the bottom.

It's easy to look back and pinpoint the March 2020 low or the March 2009 low, for...

If it walks like a duck and quacks like duck, then it's probably not a chicken.

That's how I look at what is potentially year 3 of a new bull market.

This summer is the most ideal time to be buying stocks, according to the 4-year cycle.

Q3 of the Mid-term Election years. That's the sweet spot.

Today's Chart of the Day was a unanimous decision internally.

How can it not be this one???

Every single week in 2022 we've seen...

The title of yesterday's post was: "You can't be short".

I encourage you to ...

Was this just a bear market rally?

Or did we just see the initial thrust off the lows before a more sustainable move progresses into the end of the year?

Are you seeing Small-caps breaking out to new 4-month highs relative to Large-caps?

This underperformance in Small-caps began in Q1 2021 which, among other things, sparked...