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11Jan4:23 pmEST

Stock Market Recap 01/11/22 {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...

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11Jan11:06 amEST

The Next Battlefield Maneuver

Should commodities stage a new leg higher within a reasonable period of time, the refinery stocks continue to look undervalued and under-appreciated.  Names like CVI PSX and VLO have already run up sharply over the last ten sessions or so, and I would not be chasing them here before a brief consolidation. However, the likes of Holly, below on...

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10Jan4:48 pmEST

Stock Market Recap 01/10/22 {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...

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10Jan10:24 amEST

You're Trying to Tame an Entirely Different Beast

As America transitions from four decades of supply side economics to a new world of demand side economics, at least two generations of Wall Street players are sure to be fighting yesterday's battles to little avail.  In other words, the "Greenspan" boys and girls who came of age (like I did) with the likes of Fed Chairs Greenspan and Bernanke,...

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09Jan9:40 amEST

Weekend Overview and Analysis 01/09/22 {Video}

The following video is a brief, condensed version of the full-length Weekend Video Strategy Session which I present each weekend 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.  Please click here  for more...

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07Jan10:29 amEST

Back to the Well One Too Many Times

Shares of GameStop, easily one of (if not the) poster children for the sort of liquidity bonanza The Fed created since March 2020, popped hard last evening after the bell on news the firm plans to create a marketplace for non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. As you know, NFTs have become the chic phrase du jour related to crypto. And the GME fanatics...

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06Jan10:52 amEST

Sloshing Around

Mixed early action virtually across the board is leaving many traders discombobulated as to whether the selling in growth stocks has truly abated. To my eye, there remains a distinct state of denial with respect to the Fed tightening already set in motion. Many simply refuse to accept that The Fed will actually hike rates and reduce their...

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05Jan3:24 pmEST

Wanna Talk to The Fed? Call 1-800-GOT-JUNK

As more folks begin to flee the sinking ship known as the "RMS Transitory," especially after this afternoon's Fed Minutes revealed how hawkish things are beginning to appear, it is worth returning to the junk bond market which we discussed last week on New Year's Eve.  Recall that in the wake of the March 2020 pandemic, The Fed actually bought...

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05Jan10:32 amEST

Here Comes Steel

One by one, almost every sector related to the industrial, materials, and energy complex is beginning to wake up and participate in an inflation trade.  This morning, we have uranium and steels among the very best performers. Steels, housed in part in the XME ETF but also in their own sector dedicated SLX ETF, the latter below on the weekly...

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04Jan2:56 pmEST

How Can You Call a Top to Oil When Exxon is About to Break Out?

Energy giant Exxon Mobil was officially kicked out of the Dow Jones Industrial Average on August 31st, 2020.  Since that time, the stock has appreciated from about $40 per share to spot at $66.08 as I write this, amid the various cries that energy stocks were simply uninvestable and essentially left for dead on the side of the road.  Currently,...

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02Jan11:10 amEST

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30Dec10:49 amEST

One Bounce; Everyone Knows the Rules

With tax loss season pretty much having run its course at this point, coupled with the general underperformance of growth stocks, one would think that the likes of DKNG PENN, especially, would finally enjoy a respite.  Mind you, I am not looking for a major bottom at all. In fact, my thesis for 2022 and beyond remains intact--Growth stocks are...

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29Dec11:42 amEST

The Single Most Important Chart for 2022

Here it is. The big showdown setting up for 2022 after well over a decade of the likes of Rick Santelli (and bond market vigilantes/hawks) being routinely ridiculed by newcomer investors and some of the middle aged investors who pretty much only knew a Greenspan (or "Easy Al") Federal Reserve regime since the 1990s.  But with The Fed in the...

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28Dec4:19 pmEST

Stock Market Recap 12/28/21 {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...

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28Dec10:47 amEST

No Time for Tests...Or is It?

As we play out the string of 2021 this week, you can be sure that more than a few major market players are off somewhere not thinking about markets at all. Indeed, gauging the volume on the latest rally, we are seeing rather classic holiday action with retail sticking around to play with some bounces.  Of course, the real issue for us is what...

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27Dec11:35 amEST

Suckin Back on Grandpa's Old Cough Medicine?

Since it appears most folks want actual virus testing in lieu of a home remedy like  grandpa's old cough medicine , especially with a plethora of airline flights getting cancelled over Christmas weekend among the Omicron outbreak, the virus testing stocks seem to be benefiting immensely.  The difference between now and the March 2020 move in...

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26Dec9:20 amEST

Weekend Overview and Analysis 12/26/21 {Video}

The following video is a brief, condensed version of the full-length Weekend Video Strategy Session which I present each weekend 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.  Please click here  for more...

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23Dec9:19 amEST

My Christmas Present to You

As I remain steadfast in my belief that 2022 will be a year where we see increased market volatility as we endure a (secular!) regime change in equity markets from growth to value stocks, including many commodities, my present to you, the reader, is a recent addition to my long-term investing portfolio which I typically only discuss in detail...

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21Dec3:01 pmEST

Charts: Putting it All Together 12/21/21 {Video}

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20Dec10:28 amEST

Christmas Week Selloff: But Where's the Fear, Dear?

Amid the the Nasdaq Composite Index hitting its lowest level since mid-October, this morning still features tons of market players and pundits alike opining that the current market action is being driven by Omicron "fears" and tensions in Washington over a major spending bill.  And, yet, there really is not much actual fear when it comes to the...

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