Monthly options expiration creates a whole new set of headaches for retail traders. As if trading wasn’t already hard enough, throw in the short-term financial incentive for market makers to “manipulate” prices and cash in…
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Stocks went on a tear from late December to early February with the S&P 500 SPDR (SPY) advancing some 11% from low to high. SPY then pulled back last week with a 2.5% decline from…
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After a dicey week, are the clouds descending again? In this episode of StockCharts TV‘s The MEM Edge, Mary Ellen covers some critical areas of support and resistance in the broader markets, before moving on to where…
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Everybody is talking about breadth lately. And, indeed we see or have seen some improvement in New Highs / New Lows, A/D lines, New 52-Week Highs, etc. As you may, or may not, know, I…
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On this week’s edition of StockCharts TV‘s StockCharts in Focus, Grayson shows you how to build what he calls the “Ultimate Relative Strength” chart template, inspired by the multi-level Sector Summary structure that we covered last week.…
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This is not meant to be political. As we have written many times, politics and investing should not be in the same sentence. With that said, during this past week’s State of the Union Address,…
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I talk about it almost every week in Sector Spotlight, but I just realized that I have not written about it for quite a while. The investment decision that has the most significant impact on…
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In this week’s edition of Moxie Indicator Minutes, TG explains how we could see the pullback building this week, with breadth weakening and many stocks being in extended positions that made getting long a risky…
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On Feb. 2, 2023, the S&P 500 completed what is known by technical analysts as a “Golden Cross”, which is when the 50-day simple moving average crosses above the 200-day. It has an okay, but not…
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I’ve recognized the strength displayed by the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite off the October lows. I’ve written about the New Dow Theory buy signal and the improvement in breadth indicators like the percent of stocks…