The Mindful Investor w/ David Keller, CMT

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About the author: , CMT is Chief Market Strategist at StockCharts.com, where he helps investors minimize behavioral biases through technical analysis. He is a frequent host on StockCharts TV, and he relates mindfulness techniques to investor decision making in his blog, The Mindful Investor. David is also President and Chief Strategist at Sierra Alpha Research LLC, a boutique investment research firm focused on managing risk through market awareness. He combines the strengths of technical analysis, behavioral finance, and data visualization to identify investment opportunities and enrich relationships between advisors and clients. Learn More

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Sector Rotation Suggests Offense Over Defense

by David Keller

Institutional investors tend to focus heavily on relative strength; after all, this is essentially how they are evaluated in their performance as money managers! In this article, let's review three ways to analyze relative strength and what these charts are telling us about secto...Read More 

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Three Ways Top Investors Track Sector Rotation

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In this video, Dave outlines three tools he uses on the StockCharts platform to analyze sector rotation, from sector relative strength ratios to the powerful Relative Rotation Graphs (RRG)...Read More 

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Are the Magnificent 7 Still the Kings of Wall Street?

by David Keller

There's no denying the strength that the mega-cap growth names have exerted on the equity markets in 2024...Read More 

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The Sign of Strong Charts Getting Stronger

by David Keller

I was originally taught to use RSI as a swing trading tool, helping me to identify when the price of a particular asset was overextended to the upside and downside...Read More 

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Are Extremely Overbought Conditions Good or Bad for Stocks?

by David Keller

When a stock shows an RSI value above 80, is that a good thing or a bad thing? In this video, Dave reviews a series of examples showing this "extreme overbought" condition, highlights how these signals usually occur not at the end of, but often earlier in an uptrend phase, and un...Read More 

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Short-Term Bearish Signal as Markets Brace for News-Heavy Week

by David Keller

Back in the day, I used to look at the weekly S&P 500 chart every weekend and ask myself the same three questions: What is the long-term trend? What is the medium-term trend? What is the short-term trend? My goal was to make sure that I was respecting the broader market direction...Read More 

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Market Trend Model Flashes Short-Term Bearish, What's Next?

by David Keller

In this video, Dave breaks down the three time frames in his Market Trend Model, reveals the short-term bearish signal that flashed on Friday's close, relates the current configuration to previous bull and bear market cycles, and shares how investors can best track this model to ...Read More 

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Top Ten Charts to Watch for November 2024

by David Keller

With the Magnificent 7 stocks struggling to hold up through a tumultuous earnings season, what sort of opportunities are emerging on the charts going into November? Today, we'll break down some of the names we've included in our Top Ten Charts to Watch for November 2024...Read More 

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Will Breadth Divergences Signal the End of the Bull?

by David Keller

As we near the end of October 2024, it's important to note that the market trends remain quite strong. Despite plenty of short-term breakdowns in key stocks this week, our Market Trend Model remains bullish on all time frames...Read More 

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Top 5 Breadth Indicators You Can't Afford to Ignore!

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In this video, Dave digs into five market breadth indicators every investor should track as we navigate a volatile period including Q3 earnings, the US elections, and the November Fed meeting...Read More