We talk often about the importance we place on solid internals when gauging the health of the stock market. The more stocks that are advancing…
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Options Hedging Hitting Extreme Levels
We have been seeing signs in the past few days of elevated levels of fear on the part of traders and investors. Yesterday’s post on…
Individual Stocks Struggling To Keep Up With Nasdaq Rally
We have written many times regarding our belief in the importance of broad participation in a stock market rally. The greater the number of individual…
Household Stock Investment Is At 2007 Levels
From today’s quarterly Z.1 release from the Federal Reserve Board comes one of our favorite statistics: “Households and nonprofit organizations; directly and indirectly held corporate…
Is Relative Spike In Nasdaq Internals A Major Buy Signal?
We spend quite a bit of time researching (i.e., messing around with) various data sets looking for an edge in the markets. In this pursuit,…
A Record “Close But No Cigar” Streak For Stocks
If it feels like stocks have been hanging near their highs for a long time without being able to break out, you aren’t imagining things.…
Are Stocks Due For A Big Move?
With last month’s failed (so far) breakout in the U.S. equity market, stocks are relegated once again to range-bound status. Essentially the market has gone…
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…
Another “Less Than Meets The Eye” Rally In The Nasdaq?
For the second Friday in a row, the Nasdaq put in a rally that, under the surface, was not as impressive as its headline gain…
One-Way Market Due For A U-Turn?
We’ve mentioned before (alright, in nearly every post) that we have several major longer-term concerns with respect to the stock market. One such concern has…