From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

In late August we took a simplified look at the Bond market and discussed the potential for mean reversion lower (Rates higher), but that the market remained choppy and we should adhere to strict risk management to avoid getting run over on the short side.

Choppiness continued, but Bonds have sold off a bit.

So what now? Let's take a comprehensive look at Bonds and how we're approaching them into year-end.

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

Saturday I spoke at the Trade Ideas Summit in San Diego, outlining our bullish case for US Equities. It was a lot of fun and you can register here to receive the presentation replay when it becomes available.

Today, JC followed up on our recent posts by confirming that new all-time highs are indeed not a characteristic of a downtrend.

In honor of the new all-time closing highs in the Russell 3000, S&P 500, and Nasdaq 100, I want to outline several stocks we want to be buying to take advantage of our bullish Equities thesis.

For those who didn't check the market today, here's the Russell 3000 making a new all-time closing high, just shy of its former intra-day high of 178. New highs are not a characteristic of a downtrend, so as long as prices are pressing above 178 our upside target is 196 in the coming months.

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This month’s Conference Call will be held on Tuesday October 22th at 7PM ET. Here are the details for the call:

This is my Q4 2019 Playbook.

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

In late August we wrote about the weakness in Biotech and its coming breakdown on an absolute basis.

Now that we've gotten that breakdown, let's take a look at the entire Healthcare sector and identify what risks remain.

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

Today we're taking a look at one of the most important Emerging Markets out there, Brazil, on an absolute and relative basis.

Let's see what's going on there.

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

This post is a follow-up to today's Chart of The Week, so if you've not read that I'd recommend doing so before continuing with this deep dive.

When was the last time Small-caps were not a mess? At least a year now right?

The bearish argument has been that small-caps (and others) are underperforming the large-cap stocks and therefore, the divergence is a warning signal that the market is about to fall apart. Along the way, I've asked the question,

What if we get rotation into small-caps rather than the rotation out of large-caps that you keep promising me?"

In other words, instead of the last ones finally falling, what if the stocks down in the dumps get their act together and start playing catch-up?

What does the market look like in that scenario?

Well, I'm still in the camp that we see the latter, rotation into small-caps, not the former where the S&P500 crashes and we go into recession. Here are small-caps relative to large-caps. If we are going to start to see outperformance from the little guys, this would certainly be a logical place for it to start:

Notice how when this ratio bottomed...

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

This morning JC did a review of the S&P 600 sectors to identify the structural trends of the major small-cap indices.

This post is a follow-up to outline a few names that have gotten our attention on the long side.

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

Thursday was an important near-term inflection point for several major asset classes.

This post is going to cover what's moving, why we're taking notice, and what it could mean going forward.

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

Retail ETF XRT is at an interesting level, so in this post we're gonna take a look at its chart and what the internals are suggesting for the sector in the weeks/months ahead.