Sectors with No Sex Appeal Should Rope in the Bear

21Apr10:40 amEST

Walk it Back

Despite a sharp post-earnings gap lower for Netflix this morning, taking the leader down below its 200-day moving average, stocks are mostly wanting to stage a bit of a relief bounce. To be sure, more stocks are coming back down to interesting spots, such as the gambling leader PENN down to its 150-day moving average with about two weeks to go...

20Apr3:37 pmEST

Stock Market Recap 04/20/21 {Video}

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20Apr10:33 amEST

The Stock Market's Version of April Showers

"Sweet April showers Do spring May flowers." Soggy underlying price action in equities continues to be the predominant theme of late, as many traders are understandably frustrated with the senior indices still operating basically right at all-time highs. The growth standouts which suffered harsh corrections this winter have staged mostly...

19Apr3:29 pmEST

The True Head of the American Alliance from Jump Street

Tobacco and North America have been the true dynamic duo, long before the founding of the United States of America. Evidence suggests tobacco was growing in North America by 6,000 BCE, and smoking tobacco leaves may have been practiced on the continent for 2,300 years. Furthermore, settlers grew tobacco in the streets of Jamestown (America's...

19Apr10:23 amEST

A Skirmish or Something More

It seems fitting that today, April 19th, is the anniversary of "The shot heard round the world," which of course refers to the opening shot of the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. As you know, that began the American Revolutionary War and led to the creation of the United States of America. Thus, as we see a mixed underlying...

18Apr11:26 amEST

Weekend Overview and Analysis 04/18/21 {Video}

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16Apr10:50 amEST

Can Shorts Continue to DOGE This Bullet?

You will beg my pardon for including a Dogecoin reference in the title of this blog post. But, then again, that is the finance world we live in at the moment. Still, it is hard not to thin that market players and peculators at-large have become so infatuated with the flavor of the day in crypto that they are losing sight of several important...

15Apr3:58 pmEST

Stock Market Recap 04/15/21 {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...

15Apr9:51 amEST

Napoleon Complex No More

It is quite easy these days on Wall Street to fall victim to sensory overload, be it the crypto craze and COIN IPO, pandemic fallout and debate over which industries come back and when, The Fed, rates, our political system at-large, among many other issues. Mind you, these are all relevant from a concerned citizen's perspective. But as market...

14Apr3:40 pmEST

Sectors with No Sex Appeal Should Rope in the Bear

Headed into the closing bell we are seeing some well-defined selling of the COIN IPO event, be it crypto proxy stocks like MARA MSTR RIOT down sharply, and even premier tech names like AAPL AMZN SQ TSLA, among a whole host of others. After an extended melt-up in the QQQ ETF as the seasonally bullish window starts to close a bit (but perhaps...