“High Fives”: S&P Returns For Years Ending In “5” We know we’re going to hear all about this statistic so we figured we’d just come…
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Small Caps Finally Join Large Caps At New Highs
On September 4, we explored the fact that despite the S&P 500 trading at a 52-week high, it had been more than 100 days since the…
Part 4: An Unprecedented Rally
European Space Agency image of Comet 67P as seen from the Rosetta spacecraft which recently made an unprecedented landing on the surface of the comet.…
Internal Cracks Threaten Stock Market’s Foundation
Market technicians are often accused of data manipulation when implementing historical tests. Through data-mining, curve-fitting, goal-seeking and the like, the complaint is that, intentionally or not, the…
90% Down Days In December Have Been Gifts For Investors We have explored the phenomenon of “90% Down Volume Days” on a number of occasions…
This Signal Has Perfect Record Of Forecasting Year-End Gains In pursuit of every edge that we can find, we do a lot of research into…
Foreign Stocks Have Never Been Weaker Relative To The U.S.
It’s no secret that the U.S. stock market has been the place to be over the past few years. Thanks to both the relentless rally…
Bullish Fund Assets Double Bears For 1st Time Since 2001
We’ve talked about various measures of investor sentiment quite often recently. To reiterate, these indicators measure either what investors say they are doing or what…
Big Gaps To New Highs Bring Short-Term Pain, Long-Term Gain
Lately it seems as though this market is producing unusual, and at times unprecedented, price action on a daily basis. Friday was no exception. Thanks…
Rising Junk Bond Yields Signaling Long-Term Trouble?
Many commentators have highlighted the potential warning signs related to the high yield, or “junk”, bond market. We have ourselves pointed to the troubling issues…