Are You Prepared for Raising Rates?

The broader markets have been struggling amid inflation and interest rate fears. You can see it in the chart below – after peaking in early September, the S&P 500 has been in a downtrend that it’s been struggling to reverse. But that does not mean all areas of the market are seeing selling pressures. On…

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Don’t Fall for This Massive Deception

A giant scam unfolding right now is sure to hit most traders by next month. I’m downright pissed off.   Please excuse the language, but you must share my enragement with this historic transfer of wealth happening in front of our faces while our intelligence gets insulted. Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon are at it…

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Good News From an Often Forgotten Sector

We have been pretty vocal about the choppy environment we’ve been in since early February – which is classic year 2 behavior after a big recovery off a previous bottom.  And we’ve made it abundantly clear we have seen deterioration of breadth – as fewer and fewer stocks are moving to the upside, with even…

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Are You Being Deceived?

The S&P 500 index has continued its path into record territory and that may lead many investors to believe “markets” are strong and now’s the time to jump in with both feet. “The fly in the ointment”:  Although the S&P 500 index has once again hit new all-time monthly highs, it’s done so with more…

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Markets Are Messy – Here’s the Proof

Check out the charts below – where we compare Offense to Defense. This is a tool to do a quick check-in on the overall health and direction of the current market. Here, we compare the strength of the S&P 500 index – representing the asset class of U.S. Stocks (growth) to two defensive asset classes…

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Here we go again…

Here we go again… if you listen to the media you’ll hear something like this “We’ve come too far too fast”… It’s just noise, don’t buy into it. The media can’t help themselves. But you can! Just months after the fastest decline in excess of 30% in market history, the major U.S. indices are either…

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