The Heart of Summer Action

27Jul4:40 pmEST

Stock Market Recap 07/27/22 {Video}

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27Jul12:00 pmEST

More Pain Needed Before A Fed Pivot

I must stay that it seems a bit odd to find myself in the position of sticking up for Jay Powell's intestinal fortitude, given his penchant over the years as Fed Chair for acquiescing to markets just when it looked like he was sticking to his guns of (relatively) hard monetary policy. However, the plethora of calls I continue to see for an...

26Jul3:26 pmEST

The Eternal Bear Market Debate

Is it a base bottom after a large prior decline in price, or is it merely another consolidation in an ongoing bear market before the next brutal move lower ? One can, essentially, boil many charts down to that issue throughout the course of a bear market, as we are in with the major indices operating below declining 200-day simple moving...

26Jul10:20 amEST

Carnival is the Walmart of Cruise Lines

You will pardon me for hijacking the title of this blog post from a 2019 article I came across . From a stock market perspective, and especially in light of the WMT earnings selloff, I find the comparison fascinating as Walmart made a point on the call that many more consumers are doing their grocery shopping at the giant store, presumably...

25Jul3:30 pmEST

You're Either Natty or You're Not

The highlight of today's otherwise slow-as-summer-doldrums session today figures to be the impressive moves across the energy complex. We have been consistent in tracking the potential of the group. And now comes the stiff test as to whether energy bulls can fight through a loaded coming week of earnings the FOMC, other macro data points like...

25Jul11:40 amEST

The Great Energy Tug-of-War

Last week we charted, on several occasions, various bullish inverse head and shoulders bottoms in the energy sector, be it the USO ETF for crude itself or the XOP ETF for exploration firms. But we can chart as many of those as we like at this point. The real crux of the issue is how the market sorts out the tug-of-war taking place between...

24Jul9:26 amEST

Weekend Overview and Analysis 07/24/22 {Video}

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22Jul11:28 amEST

Over the Tech Top

The SNAP bloodbath today is a good reminder that the Nasdaq bear market is not likely to be over. In fact, my view is that with the likes of TSLA still richly valued (among many, many others despite steep price drops this year) we could easily have a long ways to go in the next few quarters before I would be prepared to declare a major bottom...

21Jul4:34 pmEST

Stock Market Recap 07/21/22 {Video}

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21Jul10:50 amEST

The Heart of Summer Action

With a fair amount of Wall Street away from their desks in the heart of summer the day-to-day swings we continue to see should not come as too much of a surprise. TSLA is enjoying a nice post-earnings pop, but it does not seem to be carrying the Nasdaq higher as bulls may have expected. Instead, we are left with a mixed, soft session with less...