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The Sleeping Giants
Larry Thompson HostileCharts
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...
7 months ago
4 MIN READ
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Three Lessons From The CMT Exams
Larry Thompson HostileCharts
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...
9 months ago
5 MIN READ
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Fuel for the Fire
Larry Thompson HostileCharts
Boy Scout 101 A fire needs three elements to sustain itself. Known to the Boy Scouts out there as the “fire triangle.” Heat, fuel, and oxygen. The stock market isn’t much different. Heat – That’s trend. And the S&P 500? It’s in a long-term...
5 months ago
3 MIN READ
Druckenmiller Gave Us The Trade
Druckenmiller Gave Us The Trade
Larry Thompson HostileCharts
Druckenmiller Interview Ahead of the election and following the recent Fed rate cut, one of my all-time favorite investors, Stanley Druckenmiller, spoke with Bloomberg this week. While the questions naturally focused on those hot topics, if you...
9 months ago
4 MIN READ
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Perfection is the Enemy
Larry Thompson HostileCharts
Perfection is The Enemy The $SPY ( ▲ 0.5% ) S&P 500 and $QQQ ( ▲ 0.34% ) Nasdaq 100 just pushed to new all-time highs. Let that sink in. Through war headlines, rate fears, AI bubbles, and the national debt crisis… Stocks are trading at the highest...
2 weeks ago
5 MIN READ
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Cautious Confirmation
Larry Thompson HostileCharts
The market is on fire right now. Last week I highlighted the wave of confirmation across sectors and breadth. Now we even have small caps and micro caps all showing up to the party. But as always in markets: by the time you achieve perfection, you’ve...
5 days ago
3 MIN READ
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The Boy Who Cried "Rotation"
Larry Thompson HostileCharts
“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;...
11 months ago
5 MIN READ
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Small Stocks…Big Message
Larry Thompson HostileCharts
Get In and Hold On Look, I’ll be honest.It’s a bull market.Get in and hold on. It doesn’t need to be more complicated than that.Will people overcomplicate it? Absolutely.But do you have to?Not at all. Have exposure. Manage risk. That’s the job. And this...
1 month ago
3 MIN READ
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Seek and You Will Find
Larry Thompson HostileCharts
Seek and You Will Find The markets are beautiful. A puzzle that never has all its pieces—and that’s the fun of it. Every day brings a plethora of new data to analyze. New opportunities to keep solving the unsolvable. But as market-related data continues...
7 months ago
3 MIN READ
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"The Insurance Scam" Don't Hate….Participate
Larry Thompson HostileCharts
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...
11 months ago
4 MIN READ