ChartWatchers December 27, 2019 at 08:04 PM
Last year, it was equities that really soared through the Holidays, kicking off a big rally that lasted well into the spring. This year, the equities are still perking up with the traditional Santa Claus rally, but the big move this week has to be in the gold miners... Read More
ChartWatchers December 27, 2019 at 07:58 PM
Carl and I have put together our Sector SPDR ChartList that includes all of our major indicators on each chart... Read More
ChartWatchers December 27, 2019 at 06:00 PM
Yesterday's message suggested that commodity prices may be bottoming; which could lead to a better 2020 for the first time in years. Part of that analysis, however, was based on expectations for a lower dollar... Read More
ChartWatchers December 27, 2019 at 05:07 PM
On September 23, our Chief Market Strategist Tom Bowley, who had just returned to EarningsBeats.com after 4.5 years as Senior Technical Analyst at StockCharts, made a bold call... Read More
ChartWatchers December 27, 2019 at 11:52 AM
2019 was a year with lots of distractions, and yet the S&P 500 recorded 52-week highs in six of the last nine months. The index surged 17.7% the first four months and recorded its first 52-week high in late April... Read More
ChartWatchers December 20, 2019 at 11:22 PM
It's been a tough year for many new IPO's as most of the 170 companies that came public this year are now trading below their initial price offerings. That said, there have been a couple of high-flying new offerings that have spurred moves in their peers... Read More
ChartWatchers December 20, 2019 at 10:58 PM
I was looking at the performance of NASDAQ 100 stocks after the close on Friday and realized that Tesla (TSLA) closed above 400 for the first time in its history. Volume was unusually high all week long as TSLA gained 13% to clear resistance in the upper 300s... Read More
ChartWatchers December 20, 2019 at 07:07 PM
You pour yourself a cup and coffee, fire up the computer and begin your daily investment process... Read More
ChartWatchers December 20, 2019 at 06:00 PM
Right now, stocks are very overextended and likely due for a correction. In Chart 1, for instance, you can see that my Global Diffusion indicator has just triggered a sell signal from an extreme level... Read More
ChartWatchers December 20, 2019 at 12:59 PM
I previously highlighted the chart below in this past Thursday's DITC article (12/19). But what does it mean? What is it Showing? This chart visualizes the collective seasonality of all 11 sectors in the S&P 500... Read More
ChartWatchers December 13, 2019 at 08:00 PM
Reports of a trade agreement between the U.S. and China pushed global stock prices sharply higher today. Chart 1 show the S&P 500 reaching record territory. So did the Nasdaq. Small cap stocks continued to show relative strength... Read More
ChartWatchers December 13, 2019 at 07:47 PM
With the tensions between the USA and China this week, there was a definite surge in the charts related to the negotiations earlier in the week. One of the industry groups that made a big move earlier was gambling, but the big names faded or were flat on Friday... Read More
ChartWatchers December 13, 2019 at 06:42 PM
Periodically, I'd like to look at some of my previous "DP Diamond" selections and show you some successes (darlings) and failures (duds). They don't all do what they should, after all... Read More
ChartWatchers December 13, 2019 at 06:24 PM
When Charles Schwab recently announced they were cutting their online brokerage commissions to zero, the other major brokerage houses fell in line. Then, shortly after, Schwab announced they would be buying Ameritrade... Read More
ChartWatchers December 13, 2019 at 09:48 AM
We are seeing breakouts and new highs galore in the stock market. Does this sound the all clear? Hardly. Investors waiting for the all clear will probably be waiting a long time. Moreover, the "all clear" could even mark the top, because that's just the way Mr. Market operates... Read More
ChartWatchers December 07, 2019 at 12:06 AM
For 17 years now, Goldman Sachs (GS) has been following a strategy at year-end of picking up battered stocks that have underperformed the markets and holding them into the first 3 months of the new year... Read More
ChartWatchers December 06, 2019 at 10:35 PM
One of the great features of our service at EarningsBeats.com is maintaining a Strong Earnings ChartList (SECL) for our members and running scans against it daily to identify trade setups... Read More
ChartWatchers December 06, 2019 at 04:31 PM
In my Monthly Market Roundup last week, I repeated a talk that I recently gave at the CMT Summit in Mumbai... Read More
ChartWatchers December 06, 2019 at 04:25 PM
The Dow is one of those lists of big companies that doesn't necessarily have the most aggressive names, but they are definitely some of the world leaders... Read More
ChartWatchers December 06, 2019 at 02:28 PM
During an interview I took part in for a podcast this week, I was asked to define technical analysis. I immediately provided John Murphy's summary that technical analysis is the study of "market action" and is based on a visual analysis of price and sentiment... Read More
ChartWatchers December 06, 2019 at 02:21 PM
I'll let you in on a little secret. My favorite feature on StockCharts, hands down, is ChartLists. Second only to my charts themselves, ChartLists are the thing I rely on most heavily by far. As an active investor, I use ChartLists throughout every stage of my process... Read More
ChartWatchers December 06, 2019 at 01:25 PM
Last Wednesday, I published an article in the RRG blog titled "Stocks Remain The Only Asset Class Inside The Leading Quadrant Going into December"... Read More