WTI Crude Oil rallied over 14% today to close at $62.88 per barrel. This marks the largest single-day percentage gain for the commodity since June of 1998. On Friday we ran a Twitter poll asking which level WTI Crude Oil will hit first, $50 or $60. While 54% of respondents said $60, I donβt think […]
Small-caps Showing Signs of Life
For a majority of the year, the underperformance of Small-caps has been one of the more valid arguments that the bears have had for betting against stocks. However, in the past week, Small-caps have made an impressive comeback. As a legendary trader, Peter Brandt points out in the tweet below, this eliminates what has been […]
The Most Important Indicator Right Now
The S&P 500 fell nearly 7% from its all-time high at the beginning of August. Since then, the index has been chopping sideways as market participants anxiously try to figure out which direction this consolidation will resolve. In environments like this, it can be helpful to analyze market internals, like breadth, to gauge the overall […]
Trendless Markets
The legendary Paul Tudor Jones once said: “Markets trend only about 15 percent of the time; the rest of the time they move sideways.β When you think about this quote in the context of today’s stock market it’s clear that we’re in the midst of that 85% of the time when markets move sideways. In […]
Getting Sentimental
While on the surface Technical Analysis seems to be mainly about drawing lines on a piece of paper (or these days, a computer screen), the practice actually goes much deeper. There are other sub-studies, such as Seasonality, and understanding the human behavioral ticks when it comes to trading and investing. However, another topic that is […]