Is now the time to get long equities?

If you kept up with the headlines and what the sell side analysts have to say, you'd think it would be.

The Nasdaq100 is already down 4.5% this month. Technology as a sector is down almost 6.5% for August.

But corrections are a choice, not a requirement.

We're almost half way through the 3rd quarter already!

Boy does time fly when you're having fun.

Have you noticed how much...

Over the past few weeks we've been positioning ourselves for a ...

Remember in the back half of last year, when virtually everything was working EXCEPT for Tech stocks?

Well a funny thing happened early in 2023, money rotated into Tech and...

It took most investors over a year to realize stocks had been in a ...

This is just a friendly reminder that the most bullish period of the entire 4-year cycle has just come to an end.

How'd you do?

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The fact that Energy hasn't even broken out yet really stands out to me.

Energy, and commodities in general, have been left for dead this year.

Investors have forgotten about that third asset class: Commodities.

I still don't think the second half of 2023 is going to look like the first half.

A lot of things could be different.

Let's...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and Dow Jones Transportation Average are both hitting new 52-week highs.

These are things we see regularly in uptrends. Not so much in...

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

European Financials hitting new 52-week highs?

Crude Oil futures are pushing up against new 3-month highs just as investors have given up on the commodities trade.

No one I speak to thinks Energy leads the way in the...

Technical Analysis is the study of the behavior of the market and its participants.

So while identifying price trends is our ultimate goal, sentiment plays an important...

We interrupt this raging bull market to update you on some historic positioning in the bond market that is sure to impact your portfolio, whether you like it or not.

Even...

It's hard for me to have a conversation about the stock market without bringing up what's happening in bonds.

Think about it like this, the market cap of all US Stocks is...

While many investors have been focused on arbitrary lagging indicators like the economy, we rather keep our attention on reality.

We're grown adults. We don't need bedtime...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is the world's most important stock market index.

While many think the "pros" use the S&P500 because they may be benchmarked to it,...

More and more "things" keep making new highs.

This is the sort of thing that happens in bull markets.

You can see Ethereum and...

As investors, the first step in deciding whether to buy something or not is to identify the direction in which price is heading.

So many investors out there choose to skip...

Sector rotation is the lifeblood of a bull market.

We saw it at the beginning of the year as the laggards caught up to the leaders.

Is it time to just hold your nose and buy Disney down here?

Sector rotation has been working.

The laggards are catching a bid....

What if we don't own enough Bitcoin?

Have you thought about that?

What if BTC is trading back above those Summer 2021 lows?