We retired our “Five Bull Market Barometers” in mid-July to make room for a new weekly post that’s focused on the three most important charts for the week ahead.
This is that post, so let’s jump into this week’s edition.
Expert technical analysis of financial markets by JC Parets
by Tom Bruni
We retired our “Five Bull Market Barometers” in mid-July to make room for a new weekly post that’s focused on the three most important charts for the week ahead.
This is that post, so let’s jump into this week’s edition.
by Tom Bruni
From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting
The Fixed Income, Commodity, and Currency markets are near and dear to my heart. Ever since I began learning Technical Analysis, I’ve always loved analyzing things that are “off the beaten path.” This included everything from Interest Rates to Soybeans to the Norwegian Krone. Equities are great and all, but this is the stuff that gets me up in the morning.
In addition to the blog posts we do on the site, I’ve wanted to explore new ways to share that passion with you all and show why even if you’re not investing in these markets directly, they’re worth paying attention to.
That brings us to my new weekly show, “What The FICC?”
In this weekly video series, I’ll be highlighting the most important chart or theme from these three asset classes while doing my best to tie that analysis back to Equities through an intermarket signal or a trade idea.
The first two pilot episodes are linked down below. I hope you enjoy them and look forward to seeing you all back here each week for a new episode!
by Tom Bruni
From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting
We’ve been waiting patiently for Treasuries and other Sovereign Debt to make a move after flatlining since April.
Yesterday JC pointed out that US Rates made new all-time monthly closing lows, so let’s take a look and identify how we need to be responding.
by JC
This is the video recording of our August 4th 2020 Monthly Charts Live Strategy Session
by JC
Welcome to my new Monthly show that I’m doing with my friend Josh Brown. He is one of the most widely followed Financial Advisors in the country, and someone who I’ve been arguing with about markets for the better part of 2 decades.
Every month I’ll bring a handful of the the most important Monthly charts that stood out during my review. In our first episode, I wanted to discuss the S&P500 making new all-time highs, Transports leading the way in July, Rates hitting new all-time lows and Bitcoin starting a new breakout.
This is the chart that I think tells the July story best. The further to the left the asset is, the closer it is to a new a 52 week high. The higher up the asset, the better its performance in July. Notice Transports in the upper right: Relative weakness overall, BUT the best performer this month, followed by Emerging Markets, Gold and base metals. The lonely US Dollar down below stands out doesn’t it? [Read more…]
by JC
This weekend we got a fresh batch of new Monthly Candlesticks. If you’re not using these charts to help you identify primary trends, I think you’re doing yourself a disservice. I rarely push a particular strategy or process. I usually just like to present the data, give you my conclusions, and then let you decide how, or if, you want to use it.
But for this, I don’t care who you are, Monthly Charts are an invaluable tool. Even if you’re a short-term trader or swing trader, we want to put all of that work into context, recognizing the major trends that are in place. Trust me, go build your own list of the most important charts and flip through them just once at the end of each month. I challenge you to start doing that every month and then come and tell me that it’s not helpful. I dare you!
Anyway, every time I go through this exercise, there are always a few things that stand out. This time around, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out the new All-time lows in US Interest Rates. Whether you’re looking at 10s or 30s, we saw new All-time monthly closing lows across the board.
But why is this happening? Stocks are making new highs! Why are rates still crashing? [Read more…]
From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza
Every week we publish performance tables for a variety of different asset classes and categories, along with commentary on each.
Looking at the past helps put the future into context. In this post, we review the relative strength trends at play and give our outlook, as well as some of the things we’re watching for in the month ahead.
With July just coming to a close, we’re going to focus on that month’s returns for insight into the near-term and analyze a variety of monthly charts in order to view the recent performance within the context of the underlying trends.
This week, we’ll highlight the broad-based bullish performance across just about every asset class in July, as well as one of the tailwinds for this which was the weak US Dollar.
From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza
Every week we publish performance tables for a variety of different asset classes and categories along with commentary on each.
Looking at the past helps put the future into context. In this post, we review the relative strength trends at play and give our outlook and some of the things we’re watching for in the week ahead.
This week we’re going to highlight our International ETF and Global Index tables, and focus on some of the rotation we’re seeing into more offensive assets across the board. Let’s dive into it.