The Hard Part Throw a rock and you’ll hit someone who says “man, if I only held onto that stock.” Everyone’s got the one that got away. The position they talked themselves out of at exactly the wrong time. And in the world of...

Less Words. More Charts. The market’s on a heater. 13 straight up days for the Nasdaq. 12 of the last 13 for the S&P 500. At this point, even Helen Keller is out here sharing bullish data points. If you need me to write something profound this weekend...

Markets Road to Recovery We’ve already done the hard part. A couple weeks ago, we walked through the “Hold Your Nose and Buy” setup. Not a prediction, a process. Then we followed it up with “Set the Stop and Chill.”  Entry defined, risk defined, now let...

You See… I Don’t Get It You see… I don’t get it. Not the market. That part actually makes sense. What I don’t get is how people ignored it. Because this didn’t happen in a day. Not in a headline. Not in a single candle. This has been weeks. Weeks...

Honesty Matters One thing I want to be very clear about is what I’m trying to build this platform on. Honesty and data dependence. My goal isn’t to create the illusion that there are always trades to be made or that every environment is equally...

Things Changed This Week This market has been getting messier for a while. We’ve talked about maintaining a defensive posture, and for a while we were still able to hide in those defensive names. The boring was beautiful and it was just the sexy that...

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...

Leadership vs. Breadth The cleanest way to frame this market is breadth versus leadership. The “Balance” of This Market Yin is breadth. The supportive part of the market that’s quietly doing its job. Yang is leadership. The visible heavyweights, the...

A Needy Bull Market We are still in a bull market. The S&P 500 is in an uptrend. The majority of stocks remain above their 200 day moving averages. Still a Bull Market…But A Needy One…. But the character of this bull is changing….it’s getting...

It’s a simple Market Right Now Believe it or not, this is a simple market. It only feels complicated because people are trying to make it complicated. Think about it, if you can make it complicated (a problem) many will have more success pretend to have...