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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...

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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...

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There aren't too many charts in the Equity Markets breaking out of decade-long bases on an absolute basis right now...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

For the week ended Friday, May 1, 2020:

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

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Weekends are a great time to take a step back and rip through thousands of charts to see what's really going on. The S&P500, Dow and all those other indexes can only provide so much information. At a certain point, you need to get your hands dirty...

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Now that April is in the books that old Wall Street adage of “Sell in May and Go Away” is making its annual tour around the world of financial media. The reason this is such a commonly...

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The best part about the end of the month is that there's always a fresh batch of Monthly Charts waiting for us. We only perform this exercise once the candlesticks are completed, which in this case was...

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There has been a lot of chatter about the outperformance from Health Care recently. One of the industry groups benefitting from this strength has certainly been Biotechs so we're going to dive...

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Monthly charts help us focus on the long-term trend when volatility on lower timeframes picks up.

In this environment there are a lot of messy, sideways charts out there, so we're going to look at the clearest trends and focus on those.

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If you are caught between a rock and a hard place, you are in a difficult situation where you have to choose between two equally unpleasant courses of action.

In many Indian stocks that is exactly where many market participants find themselves...

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Interest Rates continue to stabilize in the US and globally, setting the stage for rotation into several beaten-down areas of the Equity market...particularly in small banks.

This was a risk to...

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The Nifty IT Index remains subdued due to weakness in its largest components, like Tata Consultancy, but under the surface, there's been leaders like Info Edge (Naukri) trending well on an absolute or relative basis.

With that said, several...

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Here is an update to our Bull Market Checklist of 20 Items.

*Note: The Sensitivity column represents how close the asset is to the risk level in question

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