Earlier this month we outlined the "Five Bull Market Barometers" we're watching to identify the beginning of a new bull market in stocks.

In this post, we'll update those charts without going into as much detail as to why they're important. So if you haven't read our initial post linked above, we'd encourage you to check it out.

With that said, let's jump in and see how these charts have developed since.

Friday afternoons are my favorite part of the week, but not just because the weekend is starting. Instead, it's because we get fresh weekly candles to analyze the long-term trends of the securities and assets in our universe.

And this week, we've got a big development in Silver. Prices went out at their highest weekly closing price since September 2013.

Let's take a look at what it means and how we're trading it.

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For the week ended Friday, May 22, 2020:

Every weekend we publish performance tables for a variety of different asset classes and categories along with commentary on each.

This week’s main theme is risk-on action from beaten-down areas which we'll highlight in our US Index and Factor ETF tables, below.

We're putting a lot of emphasis on risk-appetite measures right now in order to provide insight into how the recent rangebound activity in Equity and Bond markets is likely to resolve itself.

The most basic way to assess risk-tolerance is to compare the performance of risk-on vs risk-off assets. As such, this post will focus on how the offensive vs defensive areas of various markets are acting right now.

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Earlier this month we outlined the "Five Bull Market Barometers" we're watching to identify the beginning of a new bull market in stocks.

In this post, we'll update those charts without going into as much detail as to why they're important. So if you haven't read our initial post linked above, we'd encourage you to check it out.

With that said, let's jump in and see how these charts have developed since.

This is the video recording of the May 2020 Conference Call.

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

For the week ended Friday, May 15, 2020:

Every weekend we publish performance tables for a variety of different asset classes and categories along with commentary on each.

This week's main theme is that the strong continue to get stronger and vice versa, which we'll highlight in our Industry and Sector ETF tables, below.

Notice how the top three performers this week also happen to be the only Industry ETFs that are positive over the trailing 3-month period?

Gold Miners (GDX), Biotech (IBB), and Internet (FDN) posting positive 3-month returns may not sound like much but is actually quite impressive as it means these areas have already taken out their highs from just before the broader market peaked and collapsed in February.

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Earlier this month we outlined the "Five Bull Market Barometers" we're watching to identify the beginning of a new bull market in stocks.

In this post, we'll update those charts without going into as much detail as to why they're important. So if you haven't read our initial post linked above, we'd encourage you to check it out.

With that said, let's jump in and see how these charts have developed since.

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

For the week ended Friday, May 8, 2020:

Every weekend we publish performance tables for a variety of different asset classes and categories along with commentary on each.

Many of the relative trends in stocks that have been in place for a long time have come into question recently as they're showing signs of maturing due in part to the change in leadership we wrote about this week.

In this post, we'll highlight two structural intermarket themes that have remained robust throughout this tumultuous time for equity markets.

The first relative trend that hasn't slowed down at all is the relentless outperformance of the US over the rest of the world. Our first table shows the Wilshire 5000 (DWC) dominating every Global Index over just about every timeframe, from this week to the trailing year.

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When the picture isn't clear on the timeframe you're trading, it generally helps to zoom out one, or even two timeframes above it to gain some clarity around the primary trend.

Today we're going to compare and contrast the action in Gold/Silver and Natural Gas/Crude Oil to highlight this exact concept.

Bull market? Bear market? Sideways market? That is the question on everyone's minds.

We've put together the five most important charts we're monitoring to help answer that question.

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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JC recently posted some of the best charts from our US Chartbook, so I wanted to share those along with some of the best charts from our India Chartbook.

Let's take a look at what's going on in the major asset classes.

Let's start with Bonds. Here's the US 10-Year Note Futures printing their highest monthly close in history, clearly in an uptrend. The Bond market remains in an uptrend both in the US and most markets around the globe.

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