Charting Hot Spots In The Real Estate Sector In real estate, everyone knows it’s all about “location, location, location”. So it is with trading. If…
What Do Falling Corporate Profits Mean With Stocks Near Their Highs?
If you’ve followed this blog for awhile, you may have noticed that we don’t cover fundamental or economic data too often. That is for a…
More Weight Added To Equity Bear Case
For the past 12 months, we have been taking note of a gradual accumulation of ancillary factors suggesting the longer-term outlook for stocks was becoming…
Bull Market Dealt A Significant Blow?
In January, we wrote a post titled “Are Bears Missing The Forest For The Trees?”. The gist of it was that while there were certainly concerning…
A Breakout To Nowhere
We’ve spent a good deal of “ink” over the past few months on the trendless, range-bound action that has characterized the U.S. stock market recently. This…
Small Cap Volatility Hitting Historic Lows
If it feels like the stock market hasn’t moved in a few days, you’re not imagining things. With the long weekend approaching, it seems as…
Dow Divergences Part 3: The Double Dose
Today, we wrap up our mini-series on divergences among the Dow Jones indices. In previous installments, we learned that large negative divergences on the part…
What Is The Grand-Daddy Of Divergences Telling Us Now?
Today, we continue (and possibly end) our series on market “divergences”. These of course represent a condition wherein one index goes to a new high while…
Dow Divergences Part 2: Utilities
This is part 2 of our series (or mini-series…TBD) on divergences. As we stated yesterday, divergences (in which one index achieves a new high whereas…
Dow Divergences Part 1: Transports
Divergences are one of the most oft-cited arguments in calling tops. They are also perhaps the least accurate. That’s because divergences (whereby one index reaches…