We're in that part of the cycle where friends from high school are calling me to ask about the market and family members I've never spoken to about the markets are now interested. It's funny what a little volatility can do to peak people's interests...

We've been talking a lot about our expectations for continued volatility and what conditions we'd need to be bullish stocks again.

In this post, we want to step back...

Last week we outlined why the risk remains elevated in stocks and updated our forecast for continued volatility.

When markets go through periods of...

The trend for stocks is down. When they do rally, they scream dead-cat bounce. And bonds keep going out at new all-time highs every week. Gold is at its...

Did you see Consumer Staples go out at new multi-year relative highs yesterday? The strength is in Staples, not in Banks or Industrials, for example, which keep making new relative lows.

So why should we care?

"JC, no one cares...

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

As always, thanks to everyone for participating in this week's Mystery Chart. Almost all respondents were buyers....

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From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

The market rallied almost 20% in just three days after making new lows last Monday. Stocks recently sold off in record fashion so it's no surprise to see them bounce with the same ferocity. But...

If you're one of these people who thinks the lows for stocks are in, which sectors would you expect to be leading the way higher? The big important groups that fell the hardest, and therefore should bounce the most? Probably.

Well, what if I...

In our market view update, we outlined how we're approaching stocks after catching last week's 20% rally in the Nifty 50.

In this post, we want to share...

Last week we looked for a counter-trend rally in stocks and we got it. The Nifty 50 rallied 20% from its intra-week low to its intra-week high, leaving a lot market...

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

This week's Mystery Chart exercise gives us a nice glimpse into the current sentiment amid the recent volatility,...

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

We are constantly analyzing market breadth. We do this not just for insight into the strength of the current trend but also because it helps us identify key turning points. We outlined a...

This week we've outlined what we need to see from breadth, the Nifty 50 & Bank Index,...

From the desk of Tom Bruni @BruniCharting

As we look for signs of a tradeable low in Equities, we're not only looking at breadth and...

As we look for signs of a tradeable low in Equities, we're not only looking at breadth and the...

Do you see how stocks are making new lows? That's a characteristic of downtrends, not uptrends. We first want to identify what type of market environment we're in, and then...

In our last post, we looked at the implications of the Nifty 500's breadth and momentum divergences.

In this post, we're outlining the three charts we're watching...

Last week we started to see a few momentum and breadth divergences form in Indian stocks, however, they've not yet been confirmed by price.

In this post, we're going to outline what price level in the Nifty 500 would confirm them, what...

Have you noticed how stocks keep making lower lows and lower highs? We call those downtrends.

There's an important reason why I bring this up. There is a much higher likelihood for markets to continue in the direction they're heading in, than...

There has been a lot of risk in the stock market over the past 2 months and that still has not...