My Practices Are Not Designed for Your Enjoyment

19Nov2:57 pmEST

Weekend Overview and Analysis 11/20/16 {Video}

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19Nov2:55 pmEST

Saturday Night at Market Chess Cinemas

The Big Chill (1983) may seem dated on its surface, but the film strikes a chord as we head into Thanksgiving and the holiday season. A loaded cast (Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, Kevin Kline, William Hurt) combined with the great Lawrence Kasdan directing and co-writing this ensemble storyline makes this one a worthwhile...

18Nov12:31 pmEST

Going with the Flow

After another in a long line of V-shaped rallies for equities over the last few years, some consolidating seems appropriate if not overdue. I am not in a rush to push longs into the weekend with perhaps some holiday complacency needing to be worked off into Thanksgiving next week. However, you can be sure I am going with the money flow of...

18Nov10:37 amEST

Private Pyle! Why is Your Foot Locker Unlocked?

Retail stocks have, at various intervals in recent quarters, dishonored the platoon of consumer stocks. Those retail names notably lagged amid a plethora of calls for them to go the way of horse buggy whips, seeing as Amazon was effectively rendering them irrelevant. As those AMZN-is-eating-the-retail-world-whole proclamations reached a high...

17Nov3:52 pmEST

Stock Market Recap 11/17/16 {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...

17Nov3:49 pmEST

Chickens Coming Home to Roost for Turkey Day

As attractive as some energy and materials stocks have looked, and as strongly as some have been acting, the U.S. Dollar ETF's monthly timeframe, below, is a lingering threat becoming more serious by the way as rates inch higher along with the greenback. The higher this chart goes, the havoc it potentially can wreak on a variety of markets. ...

17Nov1:30 pmEST

Give Me Back My Precious

It looks as though the Dollar strength is finally starting to catch up to at least some parts of the commodity and mining complex. Steels seem unfazed, as is FCX, but gold miners failed to remain $22 on the GDX effectively and are now at risk of a bear flag breakdown. On the daily chart, below, the gold miner ETF had better regain its footing...

17Nov10:48 amEST

Water Traps

Just a perfectly normal 200-day moving average (yellow line, arrows) test by price for Dryships this week, I see. Along with solar, and you can see further FSLR damage today, shippers are likely not worth the trouble for anything more than a quick scalp, at least not yet and not until they saw better overall technical action on longer-term...

16Nov3:42 pmEST

Stock Market Recap 11/16/16 {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...

16Nov3:39 pmEST

My Practices Are Not Designed for Your Enjoyment

Without question, today's trading session has been a fairly slow one, excluding some very narrow pockets of momentum. From my perspective, I am more intrigued by the prospect for fresh long entries on some of the more viable swing opportunities since the election, namely the materials miners, financials, and transports. The copper miner...