Charles Schwab (SCHW)’s month-long freefall that started on March 9 was quite a spectacle. It took place amid the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, which triggered a shockwave that impacted the regional banking industry all the…
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Weak earnings and even worse conference calls drove UPS (UPS) and First Republic Bank (FRC) down right from the open, then even lower as the day unfolded. Between these stocks, two of market’s primary fears…
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April is Financial Literacy Month. As a retail trader or investor, you know the value of education. There’s always a new technique, tool, or strategy to learn. Sophisticated scanning tools can help identify stocks that…
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There’s a simple professional trader’s tactic for anticipating intraday market reversals near the levels that later become the high or the low of the day. This tactic worked perfectly at calling today’s high of the…
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In this week’s edition of StockCharts TV‘s Halftime, Pete takes a look under the hood at some “factor” movers, based on the Chaikin Analytics rating system. He highlights some short interest movers, including gainers and losers. He…
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On this week’s edition of The DecisionPoint Trading Room, Carl, as always, opens the show with a market overview, but, in this episode, spends extra time looking at the Dollar in all three timeframes. He…
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Introducing the Four Horsemen of MELA; Homebuilders Thrive as Commercial Real Estate Implodes
The next liquidity crisis will likely be spurred by the woes in commercial real estate (CRE); ironically, a four-headed megatrend which has been accelerated by the Fed’s rate hike cycle. Introducing the Four Horsemen of…
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Heads up, you wouldn’t know it by looking at its daily chart, but the SMH is skating on some very thin ice. Since the market’s lows in October 2022, the SMH has been one of…
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The normal relationship between the Volatility Index ($VIX) and the S&P 500 is an inverse one. The easiest way to illustrate this is to pull up a chart showing both and their correlation coefficient: The…
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After ending with gains for three weeks in a row, the markets took a breather this time by ending modestly in the red. In the previous technical note, it was mentioned that the Nifty is…