I love the seasonality information that StockCharts.com provides. It’s important to keep in mind that seasonal tendencies are secondary indicators. I don’t buy and sell based on them, because the price/volume combination will always be…
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According to the Stock Trader’s Almanac, the best six-month period runs from November to April. The worst six-month period runs from May to October. This is where the phrase “sell in May and go away”…
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Last week, the broader markets regained their uptrend, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Indexes both closing above their key 50-day moving averages on Tuesday. In addition, the RSI and Stochastics turned positive as well.…
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Novice investors usually go on a “Holy Grail quest” early on, reading books and watching videos and searching for that elusive one indicator to rule them all. After 23 years of analyzing the markets using technical…
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In this episode of StockCharts TV‘s The MEM Edge, Mary Ellen reviews the new uptrend in the markets and shares where the current strength is, as well as the best ways for you to participate. She also…
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Yields, Oil, US Dollar Rise, Equities Tepid: Stock Market Starts the Month With Mixed Signals
The much-awaited August jobs report was released on Friday. While it came in higher than estimates—187K vs. 170K jobs created—there were other areas of the report that eclipsed the stronger-than-expected figure. Notably, the average wage…
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In this edition of StockCharts TV‘s The Final Bar, Dave wraps the market week with a discussion of higher interest rates, their implication for growth stocks, and why charts like TSLA shouldn’t get an “all clear” until…
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On this week’s edition of StockCharts TV‘s StockCharts in Focus, Grayson walks you through a “bottom-up” stock-picking approach that he uses daily on StockCharts, which helps him find the strongest stocks and best technical setups out there…
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GoNoGo Charts help investors retain an objective evidence-based view on what is actually happening in the markets, and this week has shown the weight of the evidence on the side of the bulls. In this…
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Some analysts talk about seasonality in gold prices, but this does not make sense because of a very important factor. Gold prices have a dominant 13.5-month cycle, not an annual cycle, and so looking at annual…