Everything is Hunky Dory – Apple a Selling Opp
Market action is definitely feeling like 1999/early 2000 when the hot NASDAQ stocks were melting higher right out of the gate every morning. More importantly, there were so many days with horrid market internals and prices just kept going higher. Last Friday may have been the most egregious since the bull market began in March. On the NYSE there was almost two stocks declining for every one stock rallying. That behavior usually occurs on a one percent down day. Instead, […]
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Date: August 24, 2020
More Panic in the Air. Looking for Back to Back Rally Days.
I was hoping to post a number of indicators showing historic levels of bearishness and oversold readings in the stock market. However, when I started creating the charts, I couldn’t stop and I just gave up after making 18. Perhaps, I will offer again in a future post. As has been the case with every post, these are truly history making times, in the financial markets, the economy, global health, etc. The word “generational” doesn’t seem to do it justice. […]
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Date: March 18, 2020
Rally Not Complete Even Though New Highs Waning
Stocks continue the traditional holiday week drift higher. The S&P 500 has made fresh all-time highs and I expect the Dow and NASDAQ 100 to follow suit very shortly. The S&P 400 and Russell 2000 may take some time. While I continue to be a little defensive on stocks over the short-term, some of the indicators within our models that caused that in the first place have strengthened. I imagine the next week or so will be key to see […]
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Date: July 3, 2019
Equilibrium or End of Rally?
Almost on cue, stocks began to either stall out or moderate as they entered the lower end of the zone I first offered on December 21. That is a logical place for some to takes chips off the table if a revisiting of the Christmas lows is going to happen sooner than later. So far, stocks have done nothing wrong, especially with high yield bonds and bank loans snapping back so strongly in 2019, but I am not going to […]
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Date: January 14, 2019
Extreme Selling Leads to Rare & Immediate Reaction
After already discussing the legendary selling wave stocks experienced this month through December 24th, one of the sub models within our big stock market model triggered a scenario based on historic levels of overdone selling that has only been seen a handful of times since 1980. Each and every time, stocks saw significant gains almost immediately, even when in the context of a bear market. You can see all of these on the charts below with the arrows pointing to […]
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Date: December 25, 2018
Relentless Selling Wave Continues
It seems like every time I sit down to start a new post over the past few weeks, I am looking at the same data, indicators and price behavior. Stocks closed the day before lower and look like they have a chance to bounce but end up closing lower yet again. I thought when I started writing about relentless selling, it would end sooner than later. And here we are again; stocks fell hard on Thursday with the glimmer of […]
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Date: December 21, 2018
Beware of the Rally. “EVERYONE” is in The Hamptons
Early indications are for more new highs in the stock market today as the S&P 500, S&P 400, Russell 2000 and NASDAQ 100 look to see blue skies when stocks open. This comes as no surprise since I have been writing about new highs coming all along, but especially after the Q1 correction which is now a distant memory. I still expect the Dow Industrials to join the part in all-time high territory before long. When I look at the […]
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Date: August 27, 2018
Sell Facebook. Bull Market Peak Likely In
After writing about beloved tech giant, Apple, for so long, I thought I would keep it going and turn to another overly owned and loved FAANG stock, Facebook. As you know Facebook has had its share of triumphs, trials and tribulations since its infamous 2012 IPO, but mostly troubles this year with the personal information collection scandal at Cambridge Analytica. For those who invested in Facebook at the opening price in 2012, you endured incredible pain as the stock plummeted […]
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Date: August 8, 2018
Selling the News
On Friday, I wrote about the strong GDP report and given the market’s rally into the number, I wouldn’t be surprised to see sellers come into stocks but buyers into the bond market. While bonds jumped up at the open, they very slowly eroded some of those gains during the day in a quiet session. Stocks, on the other hand, opened up with some small gains before being swamped by sellers the rest of the morning, perfectly epitomizing “sell the […]
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Date: July 30, 2018
Green Shoots for the Bulls After Fed Selloff
As expected by almost everyone, the Fed stood pat on Wednesday. I was shocked to hear some pundits predicted a rate hike. That’s one of the dumbest forecasts I have heard in an awfully long time as the Fed has become almost too transparent and too accommodating to the markets. A rate hike out of nowhere?!?! That made me laugh out loud. Stocks sold off after the announcement for the second straight Fed meeting, in direct contradiction to one of […]
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Date: May 3, 2018
