Seasonality is not a perfect science. However, it can be helpful to be aware of the times of year that have been historically weak/strong for the market on average. (Don’t worry, I won’t torture you with a cliché quote about history repeating itself.) So far in 2019, stock market seasonality has served as a reasonably […]
Chart of the Day – Wednesday, August 28th, 2019
Today’s Chart of the Day was shared on Twitter by Troy Bombardia (@bullmarketsco). It’s a chart of the S&P 500 ($SPX) with a proprietary sentiment indicator below it. Troy points out that sentiment is excessively pessimistic even though the S&P 500 is above its 200-day moving average and less than 5% off of its all-time high. […]
Range-Bound
After a stellar June and July, markets have been hit in August. So far, we saw a nearly 7% drawdown from all-time highs on the S&P 500 ($SPX), but have rebounded over the last few trading sessions. However, even being so close to these highs, sentiment remains quite bearish, as we have pointed out in […]
Chart of the Day – Monday, August 19th 2019
Today’s Chart of the Day was shared on Twitter by Adam Koos of Libertas Wealth Management Group (@AdamKoos). It is a daily candlestick chart of the S&P 500 index. The chart serves as a good roadmap for investors looking to buy the August pullback. Adam notes some bullish technical developments that have taken place. 1.) A positive […]
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.” 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 […]
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