Weekends are a great time to take a step back and rip through thousands of charts to see what's really going on. The S&P500, Dow and all those other indexes can only provide so much information. At a certain point, you need to get your hands dirty...

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Now that April is in the books that old Wall Street adage of “Sell in May and Go Away” is making its annual tour around the world of financial media. The reason this is such a commonly...

As May gets under way, it’s time to review positions with May options that remain open (haven’t already hit profit targets or been stopped out).

Most trades I put on for All Star Options tend to have a minimum duration of 30 days (short...

The best part about the end of the month is that there's always a fresh batch of Monthly Charts waiting for us. We only perform this exercise once the candlesticks are completed, which in this case was...

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There has been a lot of chatter about the outperformance from Health Care recently. One of the industry groups benefitting from this strength has certainly been Biotechs so we're going to dive...

Gold bugs sure have a lot to chirp about these days with theoretically unlimited money printing happening here in the US and around the world.

And this chart showing the performance of Gold relative to the S&P 500 shows a definitive upward...

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New Mystery Chart!

For those new to the exercise, we take a chart of interest and remove the x/y-axes and any other labels that would help identify it. The chart can be any security in...

Did you notice how Stocks, Bonds and Gold are all at or near 34-day highs?

When analyzing the Gold Mining Sector, I can't help but think about the 1993 movie Dazed & Confused. One of the more popular lines in the film is the perfect way to explain what is currently happening in today's market.

In this scene ...

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We have been writing a lot about risk-appetite lately as we're constantly trying to gauge the "animal spirits" at work in the markets.  Right now we're seeing a lack of participation from risk-...

In the most recent ASC Monthly Conference call, JC laid out a case for what would get him bullish in Anglogold $AU: a break above $24.00....

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We don’t need to dig too far into the internals to know breadth has been deteriorating since last week even as the S&P 500 was making new incremental highs. Most large-cap sectors failed to...

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

New Mystery Chart!

For those new to the exercise, we take a chart of interest and remove the x/y-axes and any other labels that would help identify it. The chart can be any security in...

This is an intermarket world that we live in. If you think what happens in the commodities and bond market isn't directly tied with what's also happening in the stock market, you've got a lot of homework to do.

You guys who have been following...

Most of what you'll hear me talk about are things I've learned from other people. In some cases, they were predecessors of mine and in other cases they're buddies and colleagues. It's funny because I try to do a good job of giving credit when I can,...

The joke around our virtual office this morning was that the nasdaq is not just strong as an index, the stock itself really stands out!

The exchanges and "marketplaces" are really shining. The relative strength compared to many other sectors...

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Thanks to everyone for participating in this week’s Mystery Chart. The responses were pretty mixed with most...