Appreciate the Symmetry

15Jul4:40 pmEST

Stock Market Recap 07/15/19 {Video}

The following video is a brief, condensed version of the Stock Market Recap which I present each evening to members of Market Chess Subscription Services. In the longer version, I offer tons of actionable trade ideas, educational content, and in-depth objective analysis across all markets. If you enjoy my videos and blog posts, then please...

15Jul2:38 pmEST

Build it Out

U.S. Concrete, Inc., a firm which provides ready-mixed concrete as well as crushed stone, sand, and gravel, looks to be in prime position to benefit from any further growth in both public and private major construction projects--Be it "The Wall" or various other projects reflecting confidence in the economy and to take risk on breaking new...

14Jul2:25 pmEST

Special Edition: Full-Length Weekend Strategy Session 07/14/19 {Video}

For this weekend only, I am opening up the full-length Weekend Video Strategy Session to everyone. Each weekend, I present a similar video to the one below for Members of the Market Chess Subscription Services . Please click here for details about joining at a reasonable price to receive these types of videos, as well as plenty of...

12Jul11:00 amEST

Holding Up Like a Legend

The turnaround job that CEO Brian Niccol has done at Chipotle is nothing short of spectacular, as the stock came within a few measly bucks of surpassing its prior, late-2015 all-time highs earlier this week. Back then, CMG soon faltered and dove from $758 down to $247 by the time Niccol took over in the winter of 2018. That horrifying slide...

11Jul3:16 pmEST

A Weird Vibe: Twitter is Down

It looks like not only shares of Twitter are down today, dipping after a nice rally, but the platform itself has been down for the last twenty minutes or so. In Twitter time, that is a long period to go with an outage, and this is the longest outage I can actually remember for the platform in a good while. As for TWTR the stock, I still love...

11Jul10:53 amEST

If They Go Down, They're Taking Us with Them

Despite the Dow up by triple-digits this morning, thanks in large part to UNH rallying on Trump Administration news, plenty of names on my screen are red with little in the way of an inspiring bounce yet. Small caps continue to be a good day-to-day "tell" for risk appetite in this market. So it is no surprising to see the IWM ETF down by about...

10Jul2:30 pmEST

It's Always a Rough Trip to Value Town

As the market is prone to do at times when it corrects, some small cap names seem to inevitably fall through the cracks even after the broad market has recovered. Case in point: Secureworks Corp (SCWX), currently sporting a $1 billion market cap in the cybersecurity space, enjoyed a glorious late-January/early-February rally only to give it...

10Jul10:45 amEST

Extending the Ride

The slightest hint at a Fed rate cut later this year by Chair Powell this morning apparently served to pop futures higher into the open. As a result, the S&P 500 Index surpassed 3,000 for the first time ever, though that factoid may amount to more ballyhoo than actual substance, since that price level has no technical significance and, at best,...

09Jul5:56 pmEST

Stock Market Recap 07/09/19 {Video}

The following video is a brief, condensed version of the Stock Market Recap which I present each evening to members of Market Chess Subscription Services. In the longer version, I offer tons of actionable trade ideas, educational content, and in-depth objective analysis across all markets. If you enjoy my videos and blog posts, then please...

09Jul11:07 amEST

Appreciate the Symmetry

Alongside small caps in the IWM, the semiconductors were an integral part of both the May selloff and June snapback rally. Currently, the semis are trying to reemerge from a controlled, multi-day bull flag on the SMH, sector ETF pictured on the daily chart, below. Note the last several sessions featuring low sell volume as price drifted lower...