SPDR Sectors – The Construction of the S&P 500 As a market-cap weighted index, the S&P 500 ($SPY) is not designed to fully reflect the overall story of the stock market. The good news is with some simple sector analysis, the picture becomes...

Take A Deep Breathe In through your nose, out through your mouth. In through your nose, out through your mouth. One last time….In through your nose, out through your mouth. See how refreshing that is? That’s the Kryptonite to bad decision-making in...

“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;...

SLAP CHOP Let’s be real. No one misses cable TV. But if there’s one thing I do miss, it’s the infomercials. Billy Mays had the football uniforms spotless.Tony Horton had the whole house shredded with P-90X by summer. And lately, the S&P 500 seems to...

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...

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 Truth Hurts Another down week in the market. Risk management remains the priority. I admit—it can be lame. It’s much easier to run some all-time high scans and post those charts. If only it were that easy. My work starts with the market environment...

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...

I’ve been doing this for about a decade now, and I have yet to discover a better way to get a feel for the market than by cranking through individual stock charts. Yes, I still use intermarket analysis, breadth analysis, sector rotation, etc., but...

Price will tell the story Tariffs this. Tariff that. People can’t stop talking about them and their implications. For me, it’s simple. Whether they’re inflationary or trigger a growth scare, price will tell the story. Price always tells the story. Energy...