Context is Everything “Honey, is that Jim? Why is he stumbling down the street? He looks drunk. Pull over, let’s check on him.” “Hey Jim, are you okay?” Sally asked. “I’m good, Sally. We’re just filming a skit for our...

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...

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...

Plenty of Meat on The Bone The S&P 500 ($SPY) closed this week at all-time highs (ATHs), along with the S&P 500 Equal Weight ($RSP). With this strength many will begin to speculate about this being “exhaustive,” and with an election and...

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...

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...

Boring is a Feature Kobe put up endless jump shots. Jerry Rice spent hours on the JUGS machine. Boring, repetitive work….that’s what built greatness. It wasn’t about chasing the newest drill, it was about sticking to what stood the test of time. My...

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...

The Real Enemy There’s A LOT of market data out there. So much, that at any given time you can find a chart, stat, or study to back up whatever story you want to tell. That’s the real enemy in this game…the bias we bring to the data. The antidote is...

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...