The headline you’ll hear is that unemployment rates are soaring to unprecedented levels. What I always like to point out is that stocks crashed months ago, collectively factoring in just that. Stocks are a discounting mechanism. It’s more obvious today than ever, and I think this is a nice reminder. [Read more…]
The Weakest Region In The World
From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza
There aren’t too many charts in the Equity Markets breaking out of decade-long bases on an absolute basis right now…
This week’s Mystery Chart was though, and the vast majority of you were buying it against former resistance turned support. We agree with that approach and would be doing the same here.
Thanks as always to all those who participated, but there’s just one catch…
The chart was inverted! This means most of you were actually selling the breakdown in the Latin America 40 ETF (ILF).
Whenever In Doubt, Zoom Out – Gold & Silver
When we talk about “Precious Metals”, it can mean a lot of things. You’ve got the metals like Gold and Silver, which are behave very differently at times, and you have the stocks with all sorts of market capitalizations. There are a lot of ways to describe the precious metals space, so let’s get into a little bit of that today.
Here is a chart of what this group looks like this year. Notice the outperformance from the Gold Miners Index Fund, almost twice the performance of the metal itself. The little guys and silver in general didn’t perform nearly as well:
Click on Charts to Zoom In [Read more…]
[Table Of The Week] A Look At The New Leadership
From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza
There has been a lot of talk about the potential implications on the broader market if Mega-Cap Growth and Technology stocks were to lose their leadership. Since they have been responsible for driving much of the gains in the major averages for years now… we can only ask ourselves, who might pick up the slack if and when this happens?
In this post, we’re going to analyze the top-performing areas today and compare them to their strength before the market crashed in February and March.
We’ll also look at the leaders from back then and see how they’re holding up today.
This will give us an idea of whether we really are undergoing a change in leadership or not, and if so, where the new areas of strength are.
[Options] Taking a Shot at the Financials
The broader markets are starting to show signs that we may be setting up for some sideways-to-down chop.
And one sector that is likely giving investors fits is the financials. During this recent “recovery,” $XLF has continually been underperforming relative to the S&P. JC shared this chart today highlighting this observation: [Read more…]
Financials’ Lowest Relative Close Since March 2009
With Financials, arguably America’s most important sector, making lower lows relative to the rest of the market, it’s hard to see them emerge as new leaders. New decade+ relative lows in $XLF is not what you want to see if you think the stock market is going a lot higher. It’s actually the opposite.
I look at Regional Banks and wonder, Is this a major bottom? Or is this just a normal consolidation within an ongoing trend? So then I look at momentum in a bearish regime, and its parent sector, Financials, breaking down to the lowest levels relative to the S&P500 since March of 2009: [Read more…]
Mystery Chart (05-05-2020)
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 any asset class on any timeframe on an absolute or relative basis. Maybe it’s a custom index or inverted, who knows!
We do all this to put aside the biases we have associated with this specific security/the market and come to a conclusion based solely on price.
You can guess what it is if you must, but the real value comes from sharing what you would do right now. Buy, Sell, or Do Nothing?
Mining For Long Setups in Gold
From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza
Gold (GLD) broke out of a multi-year base last year and has more or less been trending higher since. No new news there.
But as JC explained in a post last week, Gold Miners (GDX) have finally broken out of a 7-year base as well after recently taking out resistance at key prior highs.
Today we’re going to take a deeper look at the space.
We love setups like the one in Gold Miners right now. Not only did GDX resolve higher from a massive base but there is also a hefty amount of price memory at the breakout level which should act as solid support going forward.
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