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Wyckoff Power Charting

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Tape Reading for Distribution

by Bruce Fraser

Recent Power Charting episodes have been devoted to the classic technique of chart reading innovated by Richard D. Wyckoff  Read More

The Final Bar

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Market Breadth Divergence Says NO BULL!

by David Keller

In this edition of StockCharts TV's The Final Bar, Dave demonstrates how the market's recent upswing has left mid-caps and small-caps in the dust, with deteriorating breadth conditions suggesting an increased risk of downside for the S&P 500  Read More

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Martin Pring's Market Roundup

Only a Fool Would Try to Call a Correction in a Bull Market, So Here Goes!

by Martin Pring

The vast majority of the primary trend indicators are pointing to a bull market and have been doing so for the better part of a year. Chart 1, for instance, shows that NYSE Margin Debt, or rather its long-term KST, has only recently gone bullish  Read More

DecisionPoint

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DecisionPoint Trading Room: Narrow Advance a Big Problem!

by Erin Swenlin

The market rally last week was very narrow, driven mainly by large gains in communication services stocks like Meta. Many technical indicators are showing negative divergences. The broader market struggled  Read More

Don't Ignore This Chart!

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Based on Relative Strength, Alphabet (GOOGL) Is An Unloved Stock

by Tom Bowley

Nearly two weeks ago, I was discussing in our FREE EB Digest newsletter why I felt Alphabet (GOOGL) was poised for a decline after earnings. It was continuing to push higher, which, on the surface, was a fairly bullish signal  Read More

Trading Places with Tom Bowley

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Why This Latest Bull Market Advance Is So Bullish

by Tom Bowley

I've been bullish for nearly two years now. Bullish rotation and Wall Street manipulation started the latest leg of this SECULAR bull market back in June 2022  Read More

Art's Charts

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Generals March On, but Fewer Troops are Following - Get the Essential Breadth Indicator ChartList

by Arthur Hill

Divergences reflect a disconnect between price and the indicator. A bearish divergence forms when price forges a higher high and the indicator fails to confirm this high  Read More

The MEM Edge

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Strong Earnings Is Driving Sector Rotation Into These 2 Groups

by Mary Ellen McGonagle

It was a choppy push to new highs for the S&P 500 this week, after a sharp drop Wednesday on Fed news was followed by a recovery rally on the heels of strong earnings from select Magnificent 7 names  Read More

The Mindful Investor

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Tesla Tests Key Support: Is This a Trade? Or an Investment?

by David Keller

There is no denying that Tesla has been a big-time outlier out of the Magnificent 7 stocks. While names like META have exploded to double-digit gains just this week, TSLA is down about 38% from its July 2023 high and about 55% off its all-time high in late 2021  Read More

StockCharts In Focus

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HUGE NEWS! Our Most Important Site-Wide Product Release EVER + A Tour!

by Grayson Roze

On this week's edition of StockCharts TV's StockCharts in Focus, Grayson pulls back the curtain on our latest site-wide product release - one of our biggest and most important EVER in the history of StockCharts  Read More

The MEM Edge

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MEM TV: Here's How to Trade Gaps Up After Earnings!

by Mary Ellen McGonagle

In this episode of StockCharts TV's The MEM Edge, Mary Ellen reviews the market's recovery from Fed Chair Powell's comments on Wednesday, sharing exactly what drove the S&P 500 to new highs  Read More

ChartWatchers

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S&P 500, Dow Jones Hit All-Time Highs Again; Tech Stocks Back in the Spotlight

by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

What a week! Mega-cap tech stocks, the Fed meeting, and January's nonfarm payrolls made headlines this week, creating an exhilarating week for investors. Friday's stock market price action was an unexpected, but optimistic end to the trading week  Read More

DecisionPoint

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This Week's Sector & Industry Group to Watch

by Erin Swenlin

Before we get started today, I want to encourage you to subscribe to our new YouTube Channel for DecisionPoint. We post the recording of our weekly trading room there, and it is also full of educational videos that Erin has done over the years  Read More

GoNoGo Charts

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GNG TV: A STRONG Week for Equities and Internet Stocks SOAR!

by Alex Cole

On this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show from StockCharts TV, Alex takes a look at the market using the GoNoGo methodology as the S&P 500 digests the rally to all time highs  Read More

RRG Charts

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Discretionary vs. Discretionary, a Fierce Battle Under the Hood

by Julius de Kempenaer

Cap-Weighted vs. Equal-Weighted Sometimes, you need to look a little further. And concerning the rotations in Consumer Discretionary stocks, this is one of those "sometimes"  Read More

Don't Ignore This Chart!

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Deciphering Gold's (GLD) Signals: Is Now the Time to Go Long on Gold?

by Karl Montevirgen

The gold market saw a significant sell-off Friday morning, as unexpectedly strong job market data undermined investor hopes for imminent Federal Reserve rate cuts anytime soon  Read More

The Final Bar

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Top Ten Charts to Watch for February 2024

by David Keller

In this edition of StockCharts TV's The Final Bar, Grayson and Dave run through charts they feel present actionable opportunities based on their technical analysis setups. They'll cover breakout strategies, moving average techniques, relative strength, and much more  Read More

The Final Bar

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Bullish Buyers Return After Market Selloff

by David Keller

In this edition of StockCharts TV's The Final Bar, Jay Woods, CMT of Freedom Capital Markets brings the energy of the NYSE floor to the show, relating today's market rebound to longer term themes for small caps and regional banks  Read More

Don't Ignore This Chart!

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DR Horton Stock Plummets: Is Now the Time to Buy the Dip?

by Karl Montevirgen

The tight supply environment in the housing market largely fueled DR Horton's (DHI) strong year-and-a-half run  Read More

Dancing with the Trend

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The Hoax of Modern Finance - Part 6: Is Volatility Risk?

by Greg Morris

Note to the reader: This is the sixth in a series of articles I'm publishing here taken from my book, "Investing with the Trend." Hopefully, you will find this content useful  Read More

Chaikin Analytics

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The Halftime Show: Fed Stays Put, Bond Markets Rally!

by Pete Carmasino

Uncertainty needs attention in order for it to make you second guess yourself. Instead, wait for trends to change, and then make changes  Read More

Top Advisors Corner

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Will the Fed Cave In? Homebuilder Struggles are a Sign of the Times

by Joe Duarte

If you're shocked by the recent volatility in the homebuilder stocks, you're probably not alone. I've certainly been bullish on the sector for some time, although, of late, I've pulled back my horns  Read More

Stock Talk with Joe Rabil

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Mastering MACD: The Fly-By Pattern

by Joe Rabil

On this week's edition of Stock Talk with Joe Rabil, Joe discusses key aspects to MACD when viewed as an oscillator rather than a momentum indicator. He also explains how to use MACD combination signals as well as combining with the ADX indicator  Read More

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Larry Williams Focus On Stocks

Home Prices and Stocks | Focus on Stocks: February 2024

by Larry Williams

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ChartWatchers

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S&P 500 Falls, Nears First Support Level -- How Much Lower Can It Go?

by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

Will the Fed cut interest rates at their March meeting? Investors were looking for an answer from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell when he took the podium today. Alas, Powell was noncommittal to that, which wasn't what the stock market wanted to hear  Read More

The Final Bar

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Betting Against the Fed is RISKY!

by David Keller

In this edition of StockCharts TV's The Final Bar, Tony Dwyer of Canaccord Genuity shares insights on today's Fed meeting and what data he's following to anticipate rate cuts through 2024  Read More

Mish's Market Minute

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Post Tech Earnings & FOMC -- Give Retail Investors Credit

by Mish Schneider

Although Microsoft and Alphabet, Inc. reported better-than-expected earnings after hours, and then with follow-up during the trading session, sellers came out to lock in gains or perhaps go short. After all, tech has done much of the market's heavy lifting to date  Read More

Art's Charts

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Gold is Making Waves within a Long-Term Uptrend

by Arthur Hill

Gold is not the most exciting asset at the moment, but it is in a long-term uptrend and perhaps the strongest commodity out there. There are also signs that the January decline is ending as RSI hits a momentum support zone and a bullish continuation pattern forms  Read More

The Final Bar

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Market Wisdom from the Godfather of Technical Analysis

by David Keller

In this edition of StockCharts TV's The Final Bar, legendary technical analyst Ralph Acampora, CMT visit StockCharts HQ to share lessons learned in the 1970s secular bear market, what he learned about simplicity from the late Alan Shaw, and how leadership rotation may be the them  Read More

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Martin Pring's Market Roundup

Is Oil Going Up or Down?

by Martin Pring

Oil is not only an important commodity in and of itself, but is also one has a substantial influence on commodity indexes in general. Its weight in the CRB Composite is 23%; for energy in total, it is 39%  Read More

Mish's Market Minute

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Higher Gold Price Coming, But Investors Must Be Patient

by Mish Schneider

For today, I am reprinting an interview I did for Kitco News with Neils Christensen, written by Neils  Read More

Top Advisors Corner

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The Ord Oracle January 29, 2024

by Tim Ord

SPX Monitoring Purposes: Long SPX on 1/18/24 at 4780.94. Our Gain 1/1/23 to 12/31/23: SPX=28.12%; SPX gain 23.38%. Monitoring Purposes GOLD: Long GDX on 10/9/20 at 40.78. Our gain for 2023 came in at 28.12% and SPX gain for 2023 came in at 23.38  Read More

RRG Charts

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Sector Spotlight: The Market is Moving Higher, BUT Avoid Real Estate in February!

by Julius de Kempenaer

On this episode of StockCharts TV's Sector Spotlight, after a quick look at asset class rotation and sector rotation for US stocks, I dive into a comparison of cap-weighted sectors vs  Read More

The Final Bar

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Will Catalysts Push Markets HIGHER or Drag Them LOWER?

by David Keller

In this edition of StockCharts TV's The Final Bar, Dave tracks the S&P 500 as it pushes to a new high above 4900, while the McClellan Oscillator rotates to a bullish reading. He breaks down earnings plays this week, including XOM, MSFT, and more  Read More

Mish's Market Minute

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A Word and A Chart About and On Alibaba

by Mish Schneider

Alibaba.com is one of the world's largest wholesale marketplaces. To be honest, I had never gone to their website until today, even though we bought shares in BABA 2 weeks ago. So, in case you are like me and have not checked them out, they sell a lot of consumer items in bulk  Read More

DecisionPoint

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Earnings Preview: The Technical Temperature

by Erin Swenlin

This is a big week for earnings so Carl and Erin break down the technicals on stocks preparing to report. Some are already poised for success, but others should be avoided. Don't miss their views on the Magnificent 7 and many others that are reporting this week  Read More

Top Advisors Corner

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New Highs All Around; The Federal Reserve Holds the Key to What Happens Next

by Joe Duarte

There's an old Wall Street adage that says: "What's important is the return of your money, not the return on your money." This is one of those times  Read More

Analyzing India

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Week Ahead: NIFTY May See Sharp Moves; Volatility May Spike Over The Coming Days

by Milan Vaishnav

The previous week was reduced to just a short 3-day trading week as Monday was declared a special holiday while on Friday, the markets remained shut on account of Republic Day  Read More

The Mindful Investor

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Magnificent 7 Stocks: Overheated or Just Getting Started?

by David Keller

One of the key themes, if not THE theme, of 2023 was the dominance of the mega-cap growth trade. The Magnificent 7 stocks handily outperformed our equity benchmarks through the course of 2023, and, so far in 2024, it's been more of the same  Read More

The MEM Edge

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MEM TV: Market Uptrend Endures Ahead of BIG Earnings Next Week!

by Mary Ellen McGonagle

In this episode of StockCharts TV's The MEM Edge, Mary Ellen reviews where the markets stand as we head into earnings from MSFT, GOOGL, AAPL and META  Read More