I’ve been waiting for Europe to break out since I was in high school. That was over 20 years ago. And people have the audacity to tell me that stocks are in a bubble.
Are you kidding me? [Read more…]
Expert technical analysis of financial markets by JC Parets
by JC
I’ve been waiting for Europe to break out since I was in high school. That was over 20 years ago. And people have the audacity to tell me that stocks are in a bubble.
Are you kidding me? [Read more…]
by JC
This is our ASC Research Q1 2021 Playbook.
The first section dives deep into the US Stock Market and Market breadth, then we discuss the International Markets and specific Factors around the world. Next we go into U.S. Sectors and the best looking Industry Groups. In the second half of the report, we dive into the FICC space (Fixed Income, Commodities & Currencies) and their Intermarket Relationships. Finally we finish up with Cryptos, Options and overall Market Sentiment.
You can skip right to the trade ideas here if you’d like, or give the full report a read!
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by Louis Sykes
From the desk of Louis Sykes @haumicharts
At the beginning of each 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 absolute and relative trends at play and preview some of the things we’re watching in order to profit in the weeks and months ahead.
The weight of the evidence continues to overwhelmingly lie in favor of the bulls.
The major indices are above important levels and are well on their way to achieving our targets. We’re seeing sector rotation into offensive, cyclical areas of the market, and away from defensive, which is all confirming these new highs.
Commodities are showing incredible strength in the face of extreme positioning, reflecting the control buyers have in these markets.
And interest rates have claimed an important level, supporting the rotation into risk assets.
Let’s jump right into this week’s report with our US index table. [Read more…]
by JC
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
There’s a lot of noise out there.
The glorified gossip columns and cartoon networks keep proving to be the equivalent of sugar and trans fat packed fast food.
Don’t be mentally obese.
Stick to price.
It’s better for the portfolio.
It’s better for the soul.
I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but owning stocks and spending our time looking for stocks to buy has been a much better idea than shorting stocks and spending your time looking for stocks to sell.
It’s not even close.
Just think back at all the people who told us to do the opposite every day, every week and every month since the Spring.
Gross.
Glad we laughed them off and focused on Price. I don’t know where the hell we’d be without it.
Now, as we enter 2021 we want to continue implementing this strategy of buying breakouts, not shorting them. We want to buy the stocks and sectors that money is rotating into, not shorting those. We want to acknowledge the expansion of breadth and increased participation in stocks around the world, not blind fold ourselves and pretend it’s not happening.
New. All. Time. Highs. [Read more…]
by JC
Is there anything out there not going up in price, I mean other than U.S. Treasury Bonds?
Stocks are making new highs. Precious metals are underperforming, as usual, but at least they’re trying to push up against new absolute highs.
Looks like the Bond bulls are just throwing in the towel: [Read more…]
by JC
Did you see Crude Oil breaking out above all of those former lows from the past 4 years?
Wow, Crude Oil is back!
Take a look at this massive topping pattern that completed in the first quarter this year. Crude Oil prices are now back above that massive neckline. [Read more…]
by Louis Sykes
From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza and Louis Sykes @haumicharts
At the beginning of each 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 absolute and relative trends at play and preview some of the things we’re watching in order to profit in the weeks and months ahead.
The major indexes continue to hold important levels and many large-cap sectors have laid the foundation for upside resolutions and another leg higher in their relative leadership.
SMIDs and Micro-Caps have had every chance to digest their recent gains, but we’re yet to see that play out. Seeing such strong upward momentum from these stocks speaks to the healthy risk appetite we continue to point out.
FICC markets are also assigning stocks with a clean bill of health and supporting/confirming a continuance of their primary uptrends.
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From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza.
We recently held December’s Monthly Conference Call which our Premium Members can access and rewatch here.
In this post, we’ll provide a summary of the call by highlighting 5 of the most important charts/topics we covered along with commentary on each.
Let’s dive into it.