This is the 2nd Quarter Playbook for Members of Allstarcharts.com [Read more…]
[Premium] An Inside Look At Momentum In This Market
When I get asked about what I think the most important technical indicators are, I have to start with price. This is where it all begins and ends. Everything else is just a derivative of price. Let’s not forget that. We can use all sorts of other things to help supplement that price analysis, but only if we understand that is all they are, supplements.
After price, for me it’s momentum and relative strength that we’re looking for. We want to be in stocks outperforming other stocks and showing positive momentum. Why mess around with stocks showing weakness and not showing bullish momentum? That makes little sense. Today we are going to focus on the areas showing the most relative strength and momentum, how to profit from it, and what that means for the overall market. [Read more…]
The Island Reversal That Will Now Be A Problem
It’s funny, some friends of mine a few weeks ago were asking me about Island Reversals. Apparently they were arguing about whether a breakout in some stock was sparked by an island reversal or not. I came to the conclusion that they were both wrong, but I appreciated their interest in this rare pattern. The point I tried to make to them was that it wasn’t so much about what it’s called, but more about its implications. And they had the implications right, which is all that mattered.
I don’t see too many of these things, but this week we got a classic example of the ever so elusive “Island Reversal”. [Read more…]
Podcast Season 1 – Ep 22 – Jeff Hirsch, Editor of the Annual Stock Traders Almanac
Jeff Hirsch is the Editor of the annual Stock Traders Almanac, an inside look at the seasonal tendencies of the stock market. As Technicians we study the behavior of the market and market participants. By analyzing how our human activities change throughout the year, as well as various other cycles, we can see the impact it has on the stock market. Yale Hirsch, Jeff’s father, first started publishing the almanac in the late 1960s. In this podcast episode, Jeff tells us what it was like growing up studying charts and seasonality. He then walks us through some of the most important seasonal cycles, and what some of the implications are when markets ignore seasonal tendencies. In this podcast series we like to focus on the current market environment and this episode is no different. The Almanac Trader and I discuss the current Midterm Election year and how January got us started. There are several cycles coming together at once right now and it’s fascinating to hear it directly from Jeff himself. I think this discussion about seasonality is the perfect compliment to some of the other podcasts episodes that showcase different types of technical analysis tools. [Read more…]
[Premium] Members-Only Conference Call Wednesday March 14th at 7PM ET
Every month I host a conference call for All Star Charts Premium 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, International Stock Indexes, Commodities, Currencies and Interest Rate Markets.
We’ve been on the right side of the market as we have focused on leading stocks and sectors and ignored the noise coming from the media. They want to run night time specials about markets in turmoil so they can sell ads to their precious sponsors at the expense of their consumers. We focus on the bond market that was screaming at us to buy stocks because we were not seeing any stress in credit. To the contrary, we saw credit spreads tightening while some were irresponsibly freaking out. We want to stick with this bullish approach to equities as there continues to be overwhelming evidence that stocks are in uptrends, not downtrends.
This month’s Conference Call will be held on Wednesday March 14th at 7PM ET. Here are the Registration Details: [Read more…]
It’s Make Or Break Time For Technology
There is no denying that Technology has been a leader over the past 18 months. It’s amazing how much this historic breakout in Tech was completely ignored in 2016 since U.S. elections are much sexier and help news people sell ads. “Forget the relative breakout in Tech, how does what Trump or Hillary said on the twitter today impact your portfolio?” You see the difference? We’re not here to entertain or sell ads to sponsors. We’re here to try and make money in the market.
In September of 2016 I was pounding the table about this monster 15-year base in Technology relative to the S&P500. There was no question that the path of least resistance was higher. As they say, the bigger the base, the higher in space. I encourage you to check out exactly what we were seeing at the time. Technology is up close to 50% since then while the S&P500 is up just about half that, 25%. So now the question is whether or not Technology, which has the largest weighting in the S&P500, is due for a breather, or does it still have room to run?
Watch The Videos Of All The Presentations At Chart Summit 2018
Chart Summit 2018 is in the books. What another great day of thought out presentations filled with both educational and timely actionable material. We try to make it a point here not to live life in theory, but in reality. I go to too many conferences where all the discussions are purely academic and theoretical. Listen, I understand that this sort of material is ‘evergreen’ and can be watched for a long time afterwards. Sure, and I like some of that too, don’t get me wrong. But we’re here in the market to make money. So we want to see you put your tools to work in the current market environment. What are we buying and what are we selling? Let’s make sure to talk about what’s most important!
This year I invited a group of presenters that I thought each brought a different perspective on the markets. Last year I tried to do something similar, but the 2018 Chart Summit was unique in many ways. Once again, we were broadcasting live from the internet on a Saturday so our audience was all over the world in the comfort of their own houses, flats and dorm rooms. The diversity of attendees was one for the record books, in terms of age, sex, location and occupation.
I could not be more proud of our amazing presenters. This crew hit it out of the park!
Here is the latest Technical Analysis Radio podcast episode where I invited young technician, up-and-comer Tom Bruni, otherwise known as @BruniCharting to come and talk about Chart Summit 2018. We point out our favorite charts, best presentations, biggest surprises and other superlatives from this year’s event.
Also, you can fill out the form below to receive an email with a link to all the videos of the presentations from this year’s Chart Summit: [Read more…]
My Chart Summit 2018 Presentation About Process
This weekend I hosted the 2nd annual Chart Summit, a virtual technical analysis conference that is free for everyone and anyone to attend. It all started a year ago when I got a bunch of really smart friends together on a Saturday to share their process with the world and their thoughts on the current market environment. It was such a success that we may have accidentally created the greatest Technical Analysis Conference of all time, and it was FREE. You can still watch the videos of those presentations on the original Chart Summit 2017 page.
Our presenters this year didn’t skip a beat. They took it right from where we left off last year and killed it in Chart Summit 2018. I know I personally learned a lot, and based on the emails and comments that seems like a pretty universal feeling among the audience. We had fun and we got different perspectives about market behavior from a variety of approaches. That’s what it was about. I was blown away by some of the presentations. It was awesome!
I didn’t know how much time I would have for some of my own charts because I figured some presenters would go over or we would have some technical difficulties at some point, both neither of those things happened. We were right on schedule the entire time. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that happen at a conference in my life. So I was able to give 2 presentations in the afternoon – one was about my process and how I use tools like momentum, fibonacci, trend recognition and risk management techniques. The second presentation at the end of the day was about the current market environment. I applied all of the tools explained in the first video to today’s market.
Here is the full video of my first presentation where I go over my entire top/down approach: [Read more…]
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