Keep it Simple. Do The Work. I Believe in Doing the Work I believe the shortcut is to stop looking for one. As promised, I went through every single chart in the S&P 1500 this weekend. Most of my analysis is top-down, but once a month, I like to take...

The Market Is Set For Earnings It’s a Bull Market and as I mentioned last week with my tactical model aligns with being opportunistic. So, I gave the people what they want. I sent out a special report A Chart Bonanza highlighting 50+ setups on an...

You’re Always “The Student” When it comes to the markets, you’re always the student. The market itself is the teacher, and every day it offers lessons for those willing to observe and learn. Our goal is simple: to gain more insight today than we had...

It’s that time of year again—my wife asked me to get some quotes on homeowners insurance because our current provider wants to raise our rates…again. Between premium increases and claims denials, it’s easy to hate these companies. However, as...

A Dream Come True The Market Did It! Santa finally arrived to deliver my gifts. Friends joined the party, short-term momentum gained steam and as is common in bull markets, bears got caught in some vicious bears traps. By Tuesday (January 14th) we...

The Sleeping Giants We need to be reminded more than we need to be taught. As a friendly reminder, the S&P 500 plays favorites. It’s a market-capitalization-weighted index, which means it gives more weight to companies that are growing and less...

I’m a Chartered Market Technician While traveling to India last week, I received the official news that I had become a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). This week I wanted to reflect on a few key lessons I’ve learned since being introduced to the world...

It All Spends The Same The market isn’t broken. It’s just not sexy. As a whole, we are getting more defensive. That’s true. But here’s the important part. There are places to allocate while the fun stuff is stuck in no man’s land. The boring areas...

Taking A Punch The markets are hostile. Bulls and bears are trading blows with price action as our scorecard. This week, the bears landed one. The long-awaited punch finally connected. That’s a good thing. Now we find out what the bulls are really made...

“The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is a daily theme in financial markets. Media pundits sensationalize daily market move implications over and over again to a point where the public becomes numb. One of this year’s victims has been the concept of rotation;...