When stocks have entered the 4th quarter of an election year positive YTD, they have historically continued higher through year-end. It is normally around this…
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The Wedge That’s Driving Facebook’s Stock
The stock of Facebook has been in a rising wedge pattern for most of its lifetime – and the pattern is nearing a resolution. Today’s…
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Friday’s stock market plunge was greater than the entire range of the previous 40 days. With today’s impressive rebound in stocks, Friday’s selloff seems like…
An ‘Appealing’ Market
This piece originally appeared as the August 2016 edition of the J. Lyons Fund Management, Inc. Newsletter at www.jlfmi.com. Re-examining the evidence, in favor of…
Stock Burst To New Highs Just The Beginning, Or Final Hurrah?
The S&P 500 just experienced an unprecedented burst to new high ground; will the move prove to be exhaustive or propel the index even higher?…
Rally In High Beta Gets Back On Track
As with several other key sectors, the action in high beta stocks the past few days suggests a successful test of its early April breakout…
Options Traders Continue Their Unusual Hedging
While the stock market saw big gains yesterday, one options exchange reported a near-record level of relative put buying. One of the recent themes that…
Stock Options Traders Easily Spooked
Equity put/call ratios have spiked – despite an unprecedentedly small loss in the averages. One interesting development related to the stock market currently pertains to…
Perhaps There IS Something To The Recent Positive Breadth Skew
A historical look at yet another day displaying disproportionately good breadth suggests that it may actually have relevancy in the near-term – in a bullish…
Is Breadth Signaling More Than Meets The Eye In This Market?
Does an unprecedented show of positive breadth foretell a quick end to stocks’ recent struggles? One year ago, the emerging theme in the stock market…