Intermarket Day is one of my favorite days. Yes I'm a huge nerd. Deal with it!
This is when I go through many markets relative to each other. These markets include individual U.S. Sectors compared with the overall U.S. Stock market. We also ...
Today is the 7th anniversary of the S&P500 closing low in March 2009. This date, March 9th, has gone down as the historic low in the stock market after the financial crisis of 2008. But the truth is that the market of stocks bottomed out well...
During broad rallies in the equity markets, both in the US and globally, I look for those names / sectors / indices that are not participating to the upside, as those are normally...
Sometimes I share with you guys what I think is a really interesting chart and/or trade and call it the "Chart of the Week". Other times I'll put together a study to try and confirm or invalidate a prior thesis of mine and I'll title that the "...
Last week a structural breakout in AUD/USD was confirmed. Whether you trade currencies or not, it's worth paying attention to because of its implications from an inter-market...
There are a lot of interesting things going on in the Crude Oil market these days from both a long-term and a short-term perspective. Premium Members of Allstarcharts have wanted to be long Crude Oil since...
Every month we host a conference call for All Star Charts Members where we discuss ongoing themes throughout the global marketplace as well as changes in trends where new positions would be most appropriate. This includes U.S. Stocks & Sectors,...
Crude Oil confirmed a failed breakdown below the 2009 lows last week. This development is extremely important from a risk management standpoint and has big implications from an...
If you're a market participant, Lumber should be on your radar. The weight of evidence suggests that this market has upside roughly 20% upside from current levels and offers a...
This morning I was on the Benzinga pre-market radio show, where I am invited as a guest every other Thursday. So basically twice a month a rap with the boys about the direction of the Stock Market, both U.S. and globally, Interest Rates & Bonds,...
You guys know that I prefer to incorporate more of a weight-of-the-evidence approach to markets rather than basing my decision making on a single indicator. We look at stock markets all over the world to find themes, both bullish and bearish, and then...
Changes in trend rarely get cleaner and as well-defined as the distribution taking place in the semiconductor space. The infamous head and shoulders topping pattern is as clear as day in this one. Today we're looking at the Philadelphia Semiconductor...
With all of the bad news and negative sentiment surrounding the high yield bond market, I think this is a place where we want to be buyers, and no longer sellers. High yield bonds are just a fancy way to refer to "Junk bonds". At the end of the day,...
How often do we hear one person ask another, “So what are the charts telling you?”, or “What does that chart say?”. Think about that. Charts don’t actually say anything at all. They’re charts. Charts don’t speak. So why do so many...
This week I was running up and down the east coast in meetings and conferences. With some of the free time I had left, I sat down with a few of my favorite financial journalists to rap about the markets. On Monday afternoon I was on...
On Monday afternoon I was over at the Bloomberg headquarters in New York City to discuss markets with Joe Weisenthal, Alix Steel and Scarlet Fu. Every time I've been on a guest on this show I've had pretty much nothing but bad news to share as far as...
