After the initial pop off the September low, small-cap stocks have significantly under-performed their larger peers – is that trend as troublesome as some are…
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Can The 4th Quarter Save 140-Year “Year 5″ Streak In Stocks?
4th quarters in years ending in “5″ have typically been big…but will it be enough to save 140-year streak of positive “year 5′s”? Way back on January…
U.S. Stocks Facing Their Biggest Test In 8 Years?
Broad-based Value Line Composite testing mega-critical level. The Value Line Geometric Composite (VLG) is an unweighted average of roughly 1700 U.S. stocks. This makes it,…
“(Not Always) Smart Money” Hedgers Are Record Long S&P 500 Futures
It seems like sentiment indicators used to be more straightforward. That is, when one group of traders or survey respondents were positioned to an extreme,…
Will Yesterday’s Shooting Star Make Bears’ Wishes Come True?
Like it’s bullish counterpart, the hammer, this bearish reversal pattern has been inconsistent in its forecasting abilities, except under certain conditions. We’ve covered the “hammer”…
Odds Favor A Year-End Rally…After A New Low
August 6-month lows have had a tendency to be broken in the coming months, prior to a year-end bounce. After getting kicked in the teeth…
Inverse ETF Hedging Near Record Levels
In recent weeks, we have discussed a number of data points indicating elevated levels of hedging in the equity market. This includes examples from the…
Add Junk Bonds To The Growing Pile Of Concerns
This week’s Charts Of The Day and blog posts have had a heavy bearish bent to them. That isn’t by design. We just go where…
Light At The End Of The Tunnel For Stocks…Or A Train?
So much for summer trading. Global markets are getting more interesting by the day. Last week, we wrote a post examining the phenomenon of 90% Down…
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…