As we exit the best three-month period for the stock market, we're looking to our risk appetite indicators to help us determine the next directional move.
The charts below are all excellent tools for helping identify what kind of environment we are in.
During bull markets, investors embrace risk. In bear markets, they reduce their risk.
Understanding and analyzing the balance between defensive and offensive assets helps keep us on the right side of the trend.
Breaking News: "Dow Futures fell 100 points and the VIX rose this Friday on news of new all-time highs for the stock market"
The breadth continues to deteriorate with every week that goes by.
You notice?
You can see it in our trades as well. While the puts on our $SPY and $QQQ haven't started to work yet, the bearish trades on individual stocks are all either working or flat.
It's interesting. What you see in happening in the portfolio, you can also see happening in the market itself.
We saw new all-time highs this week for the S&P500. But we had the fewest stocks in the S&P500 above their 200 day moving average since December. And the fewest above their 50 day moving average since November.
Our Hall of Famers list is composed of the 150 largest US-based stocks.
These stocks range from the mega-cap growth behemoths like Apple and Microsoft – with market caps in excess of $2T – to some of the new-age large-cap disruptors such as Moderna, Square, and Snap.
It has all the big names and more.
It doesn’t include ADRs or any stock not domiciled in the US. But don’t worry; we developed a separate universe for that. Click here to check it out.
The Hall of Famers is simple.
We take our list of 150 names and then apply our technical filters so the strongest stocks with the most momentum rise to the top.
Let’s dive right in and check out what these big boys are up to.
As many of our longs continue to work in this current leg higher in the stock market, I like putting on bearish bets as portfolio hedges to cushion the blow if/when the turn comes.
And the best way I know how to do it is to position bearishly in stocks that are already falling. If they are performing poorly now, I have to believe there is a lot more downside should a downdraft hit the broader market.
My analysts published their latest Short Report, and one of the names caught my attention.
Whenever a fellow parent asks what I do, I tell them I comment on interest rates.
I’m not involved in the semiconductor industry or the AI revolution. I don’t rob community banks (a personal favorite, despite mixed reactions). And I certainly do not analyze fixed-income, forex, and commodity markets (that’s a show-stopper).
The only thing people want to know these days – whether they’re navigating Wall St. or Main St. – is where rates are headed.
But no one seems to be listening to the one person who has a direct impact on the direction of US Treasury yields…
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Bitcoin rallies into the 46,000, erasing its post-ETF gains.
Bitcoin dominance has climbed on this recent rally, pointing to Bitcoin’s leadership in this move.
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The Russell 2000 index $IWM is an index representing small-cap stocks in the United States. In recent months, the index has been coiling in a series of higher lows and lower highs. These contractions in volatility often proceed with directional moves. The price action in IWM is getting tight, pointing to a resolution in either direction.
