My Santa Wish List……Is still a wish On December 21st, I shared my Christmas wish list for participating in the Santa Rally. Unfortunately, my wishes didn’t come true but that same wish list still serves as my framework today as I evaluate the market from...

What’s up, gang. I often get asked the question: “Why HostileCharts?” HostileCharts was born from a realization that true growth occurs during times of hostility, not within the safety of our comfort zones. “The quote, “Everything you want in life is on...

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...

Don’t Open The Gifts Early… We’ve all done it before. Found the gifts before the holidays as a kid and ruined the surprise for ourselves. For me, it was fourth grade. I was obsessed with Yu-Gi-Oh cards, and curiosity got the better of me. While my mom...

All Eyes on Semiconductors I don’t make the rules. The Market does. And right now, the market demands we pay attention to semiconductors. They’re a monster and the symbolic leader of this Bull Market. If semiconductors were their own sector within the...

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...

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...

Weird Looking Bubbles As permabears continue to scream about a supposed narrow market that’s in a bubble, their constant complaining ironically makes it a known risk and by its very nature, a less significant one. Fortunately, while these folks obsess...

Hate It or Love It – You HAVE to Watch Technology is the backbone of the U.S. stock market. It represents one-third of the S&P 500 and holds roughly the same combined weight as the bottom seven SPDR sectors. It’s the Pete Weber of the Stock...

I Don’t Write For You I’d love to act like this is a selfless endeavor but it’s not. My goal with writing is selfish, I do it to improve my journey as an investor. Paradoxically, that’s what makes it valuable. There is no narrative I need to sell or...