The bond market continues to price in higher inflation and higher interest rates.

The types of stocks that tend to do well in that environment are Energy and Financials. So that's where we're looking.

An area that continues to see relative strength is in Semiconductors. One name in particular stands out from Amsterdam is ASML.

We talk about all of this and more in this short New Year's Eve Clip:

Our friends over at Stockcharts.com asked me to put together a short video on the most important theme of 2021.

For me, it's hard to ignore how breadth deterioration throughout the most the year impacted sentiment. This summer, the extreme levels of bullishness among individual investors and financial advisors became a headwind for stocks.

After the prices of those stocks deteriorated further into the Fall, that sentiment flipped to the opposite extreme. We came into December 2021 with the most bears in over a year and fewest bulls since April 2020.

As we enter 2022, sentiment is very different than how things looked entering 2020 and 2021.

By my work...

We’re buying an $MPC Feb/Apr 70 Call Calendar Spread for around a $1.10 debit. This means we’ll be short the February 70 calls and long an equal amount of April 70 calls for a net debit

Check out our short video with the thought process behind these trades:

We have a new Options trade up this week.

We're buying an $MMC April 170/200 Bull Call Spread for around a $7.50 debit all in. This means we’re long the 170 calls and short an equal amount of 200 calls..

Check out our short video with the thought process behind these trades:

This is the video recording of the December 2021 Mid-month Conference Call.

I enjoy learning about things I know little about. Sacred Geometry is definitely one of those.

But once we start applying these numbers to the market in order to help us make money, now I'm interested.

Larry Pesavento is the authority on the subject as far as I'm concerned.

Ever wonder where all these numbers and equations are coming from?

I do.

Let's dive into it!

We have a new Options trade up this week.

We're selling an $IWM December 31 (weekly) Iron Condor. We’ll be short the 210 puts and 235 calls, while protecting the position $5 away in both direction with long 205 puts and 240 calls. This entire spread can be put on for about a $1.70 credit.

Check out our short video with the thought process behind these trades:

This is the video recording of our December 1, 2021 Monthly Charts Live Strategy Session

This is the video recording of our November 30, 2021, Tuesday Evening Crypto Livestream.

On this episode of Pardon The Price Action, we talk about whether these are all retests or failed breakouts.

That's the big question.

Full video below or Listen to the podcast version.

With Oil testing 76, Financials and Industrials retesting former highs, small-caps and even Bitcoin near critical levels, we want to know if this is just a pause, or the beginning of the end.

All this and so much more on the latest episode Pardon the Price Action!

This is the video recording of the November 2021 Mid-month Conference Call.

In Part 2 of our Fibonacci Series we dive into Frequencies with Jim Bartelloni.

If you're already familiar with my others videos with Bart, you know this is all math. No fundamentals to see here!

In this video we look at the similarities between the shapes made by vibrating grains of sand and the ups and downs of the stock market, particularly the Small-cap Russell2000 ETF $IWM.

This was really cool. Hope you enjoy!