Earlier this week, I put out a note about what I've been telling friends and family when they come asking. It comes with the territory right? I'm sure many of you are being...

A couple of weekends ago, I had...

Long-term Equity charts and breadth measures continue to suggest a defensive approach...

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

New Mystery Chart!

For those new to the exercise, we take a chart of interest and remove the x/y-axes and any other labels that would help identify it. The chart can be any security in...

We're in that part of the cycle where friends from high school are calling me to ask about the market and family members I've never spoken to about the markets are now interested. It's funny what a little volatility can do to peak people's interests...

The trend for stocks is down. When they do rally, they scream dead-cat bounce. And bonds keep going out at new all-time highs every week. Gold is at its...

Did you see Consumer Staples go out at new multi-year relative highs yesterday? The strength is in Staples, not in Banks or Industrials, for example, which keep making new relative lows.

So why should we care?

"JC, no one cares...

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

As always, thanks to everyone for participating in this week's Mystery Chart. Almost all respondents were buyers....

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

The market rallied almost 20% in just three days after making new lows last Monday. Stocks recently sold off in record fashion so it's no surprise to see them bounce with the same ferocity. But...

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

New Mystery Chart!

For those new to the exercise, we take a chart of interest and remove the x/y-axes and any other labels that would help identify it. The chart can be any security in...

If you're one of these people who thinks the lows for stocks are in, which sectors would you expect to be leading the way higher? The big important groups that fell the hardest, and therefore should bounce the most? Probably.

Well, what if I...

Wow what a weekend! Thank you all so much for your support.

We had 10,000 people register for ...

Are you ready for Chart Summit this Saturday??? I've never been more excited to attend a financial conference in my life. And I don't even have to leave my house!!! And it's FREE. Are you kidding me?

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

This week's Mystery Chart exercise gives us a nice glimpse into the current sentiment amid the recent volatility,...

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

We are constantly analyzing market breadth. We do this not just for insight into the strength of the current trend but also because it helps us identify key turning points. We outlined a...

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

As we look for signs of a tradeable low in Equities, we're not only looking at breadth and...

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

New Mystery Chart!

For those new to the exercise, we take a chart of interest and remove the x/y-axes and any other labels that would help identify it. The chart can be any security in...

Do you see how stocks are making new lows? That's a characteristic of downtrends, not uptrends. We first want to identify what type of market environment we're in, and then...

If you're worried, scared, uncertain, unhappy, on tilt --- or all of the above, depending on the hour -- it's ok to do nothing.

Cash is a position.

Cash is comfort. Cash is control. Cash is Safety.

Have you noticed how stocks keep making lower lows and lower highs? We call those downtrends.

There's an important reason why I bring this up. There is a much higher likelihood for markets to continue in the direction they're heading in, than...

There has been a lot of risk in the stock market over the past 2 months and that still has not...