Like a fly to honey, I'm always attracted to asymmetric opportunities that offer limited risk and the potential for unlimited gains. Trading options allows us to quite literally create these types of risk/reward opportunities every day. It's...

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

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...

We hear this term a lot: "Overhead Supply". But what does that mean exactly?

Well, I'll tell you what it means to me. When I look at today's stock market, I see stocks rallying throughout 2017 and running into resistance, or more selling than...

People love to hear a good story. We have an evolutionary desire to gossip and be told stories even if we know they're untrue. As Sapiens, it's important to know this about ourselves. But you know who definitely knows it? The media. And they're going...

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

Every few weeks I get a message from someone asking a question along the lines of "Should I enroll in the CMT Program?" As with most things, the answer is it depends on your individual...

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

The trend is your friend...but what do we do if there is no trend?

About eight months ago Patrick Dunuwila from The Chart Report introduced me to a new data visualization platform called...

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

New Mystery Chart!

For those new to the exercise, we take a chart of interest and eliminate the x and y-axes and and all labels eliminated to minimize bias. The chart can be any...

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

I couldn't help but see many of the same folks who were happy about Trump's "Trade Deal" tweets when they drove the stock market higher complaining as his tweets sent Futures lower on Sunday...

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

Over the last two months we've been pointing to many divergences in breadth and momentum, as well as intermarket relationships that add to the mixed near-term signals we continue to see around...

Sayings like these give journalists topics to write about. Pro tip: Most of the stuff you'll read is garbage.

“Sell in May and go away, and come back on St. Leger’s Day”

That's where all this Sell in May...

Interest Rates in the United States hit new 52-week lows last month. But from the looks of it, the commodities market and stock market are not in agreement with that direction. It's when we see divergences among asset classes that it gets my attention...

A Doctor would never diagnose a patient without first seeing what's going on inside. A mechanic won't be able to tell you what's wrong with your car without lifting the hood. It's no different in the market. How can we possibly judge the S&P500...

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

Wednesday's Mystery Chart is one of my favorite charts in the world.

First off, I want to thank everyone...

Many people are surprised that we are back to where things first fell apart for the S&P500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average last year. We had a severe correction in Q4...

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

I saw a couple tweets yesterday about FAANG stocks and their "lack of participation" in the market's four month rally and just don't get it.

First it was a problem when the largest...