Something's Missing from the Morning Bounce

07Apr9:13 amEST

Saturday Night at Market Chess Cinemas

An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) is one of those coming-of-age all-American films from the 1980s which ought not become swept away in the sands of time. It is currently available on Amazon Prime and well worth a viewing. via YouTube: Once in a great while a movie comes along that truly grips and uplifts its audiences. Such a movie is An...

06Apr12:45 pmEST

The Market is a Prankster

Despite some charts like ETSY basically ignoring today's drop in the market, alongside a few other standouts we like to track for Members during market corrections and periods of uncertainly and volatility, the reality is that right now the market is a prankster where we can mostly look, but also mostly not touch. Indeed, most stocks tend to...

06Apr10:20 amEST

It Tells a Good Story

On the back of Toronto-based gold miner Kirkland Gold announcing this morning that it had strong first quarter production for 2018, we turn to the price action in precious miners as a whole and continue to see slight improvements, especially at various intervals during this week's inter-market volatility where they could have--and probably...

05Apr4:23 pmEST

Stock Market Recap 04/05/18 {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...

05Apr1:25 pmEST

Steve Madden: Making Strong Island Proud

While it may seem like a relic from the late-1990s/early-2000s , retail play Steve Madden, Ltd. is back in the game with various retail stocks heating up and clearly outperforming the market thus far in 2018. Interestingly, Long Island City-based (which is actually Queens, but to a Jersey guy they are all lumped into Long Island) Steve...

05Apr10:33 amEST

It's Been a Few Months: We Should Call That Girl Lithium Back

Back in mid-January we took a long, hard look at the various lithium-related charts and surmised that the once-hot sector was breaking well-defined (and steep) trend, effectively putting the group in the penalty box until the weather warmed up. Fast-forward a few months later (unseasonably cold temperatures and precipitation in the northeast...

04Apr3:47 pmEST

Stock Market Recap 04/04/18 {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...

04Apr3:31 pmEST

You Cannot Analyze (or Trade) the Market if You're an Emotional Wreck

Corrective markets feature emotions running fast and furiously, with market players alternating between fits of fear, panic, angst, even anger, and relief, exuberant, and joy, before repeating the same cycle over and over. The reality is that the mercurial, scatterbrained types are much more sizzle than steak in terms of trying to catch every...

04Apr12:52 pmEST

The Ichabod Crane of the Retail Sector

Quick note here about Under Armour, to follow-up on a working thesis we discussed a while back. Simply put, the stock has been going higher even on bad news for the firm , and even with the broad market correction and volatility. Earnings are coming up at the end of the month. But gauging the updated daily chart, below, note how well price...

04Apr10:39 amEST

Something's Missing from the Morning Bounce

After knifing lower on the back of a news-driven overnight futures trying session, equities staged an earnest bounce off the opening bell. Even with the Dow rallying 200-points or so off the opening dive lower, however, I remain reticent to hop back into the market on the long side with any sort of aggression for a variety of reasons which we...