Opportunities in emerging markets coming?

I’ve mentioned many times that the US markets are in a bull market, but in the near term are quite overbought. Note on this weeks S&P chart the overbought RSI levels, the extent of the recent move over the 50 day MA, and the rounding over from an overbought stochastics. Visually, you can see a [...] read more

3 sectors worth watching & playing the odds

I’d like to reference a couple of books that I’ve been reading lately that might be helpful in making stock market profits. The first book is Nate Silver’s “The signal and the noise: why so many predictions fail, and others don’t” While there are many lessons to be gleaned by this book, perhaps the most [...] read more

Signs of Speculation

Source:  stockcharts.com It is obvious that the US markets are in a bull market. The 13-year resistance levels of around 1565 were blown through like a hot knife through butter recently. The discipline of Technical Analysis demands that we acknowledge this very significant development as outright bullish, and trade accordingly. There is a strong case [...] read more

Plenty of cash on the sidelines?

I’d like to draw your attention to a chart posted by www.theshortsideoflong.blogspot.ca. This blog is run by a young investor named Tiho who, while operating with what may be an overly bearish bias to his investment opinions, still seems to put forth some keen observations. I’ll quote Tiho’s observations regarding his chart this week: “In their [...] read more

Tender loving treasuries

I use the term “tender loving treasuries” to help me remember the stock symbol for the iShares 20+ year US treasury bond ETF (TLT-US). Work done by my friend Don Vialoux has shown a tendency for the long US bond to outperform during the summer months. I’ve done up a chart showing entry points and [...] read more