It's that time of the year again. This is when we hear things like the "January Effect", the "First 5 Days of the Year Indicator", "Santa Claus Rally", "January Barometer" and all sorts of seasonal-type...

This week Howard and I discuss what "Technology" actually means. With companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook representing ZERO PERCENT of the Technology Index, people continue to group them into Tech regardless.

Is that right? Should we...

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

Last week's Mystery Chart was the Uranium ETF $URA zoomed all the way out to its inception and inverted.

I...

For months now, we've been pointing to the fact that metals are doing great. It's just that Gold isn't one of them.

Base metals are where the smart money has been flowing....

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza 

We just published our brand new, revised and expanded, breadth chartbook. Premium Members can check it out here....

From the desk of Louis Sykes @haumicharts

Monday was the big day, I had my first CMT exam.

It's one thing stacking up all the topics you need to learn for the test, but it's another to take on lasting knowledge that'll carry...

The Energy sector has had some interesting moves in both directions in 2020.

Sell off with everything else in March. Hard bounce with everything else in the Spring. Then a slowly accelerating slide into mid October where it caught another...

Remember 3 years ago when Bitcoin was the talk of the town and everyone wanted in? Well, by then anyone who wanted to buy it had already done so. Bitcoin went on to lose over 80% of its value over the next 12 months. That's how bubbles end. An instant...

The Mega-cap names have been digesting their 2020 gains since early September. Go one by one and most of them are down over the past 3+ months. All except the last one at the bottom.

The Tesla bulls will love this one:

I'm not sure when this happened. When did they start grouping any company that uses a computer into the Technology Sector?

First of all, ...

Japan continues to rally as it breaks out to new 29-year highs.

And just think, the Japanese Nikkei225 can rip another 40% from here and still not get back to its highs from the late 1980s. That's how long it takes a bubble of that magnitude...

During bull markets I always get asked about when it's going to stop. I don't get asked about stock market bubbles and unsustainable valuations during bear markets, that's for sure. Those environments come with other kinds of funny questions.

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From the desk of Louis Sykes @haumicharts

It's always hard for us market nerds to level with others who don't share our obsession for Finance.

And that's important because, with all the noise of today, I think there's...

Few things take the mind on a flight of fancy like the thought of interstellar space travel. Who hasn't taken a look at the night sky and wondered what's up there?

Richard Branson took a look and wondered the same thing. Only, he decided to...

This week, Julie and I talk about some of the things that stood out the most on last week's Monthly Chart Review.

Among them were the Market Capitalization...

I don't want to keep talking about the same asset, you guys know we pride ourselves in looking for opportunities all over the world and across asset classes. But this Bitcoin scenario right now presents us with the perfect opportunity to explain what...