Posts Tagged ‘S&P’
If Christmas Is Over, What’s All This Talk About Santa Claus?
Let me explain… the Santa Claus Rally was first defined by Yale Hirsch in 1972 in the Stock Trader’s Almanac as the last five trading days of the year and the first two trading days of the New Year. This year, that means the period that began Monday, December 27, 2021, and ends Tuesday, January…
Read MoreThe One Metric More Important than Performance
Traditional investment advice asks that you buy and hold onto investments… often index funds. Unfortunately, this approach is pretty inefficient in creating actual capital. The data shows that investors spend the majority of their time simply treading water… Or worse, riding through a market decline only waiting to get back to even. The truth is…
Read MoreYou don’t win today’s game with yesterday’s home run
“You don’t win today’s game with yesterday’s home run”. -Babe Ruth Regardless of how successful your portfolio was or was not in 2020, it’s in the books. It’s over; time to move on. So rather than spending considerable time and energy talking about 2020, today, I’m going to share what I’m seeing right now. I’m…
Read MoreThis Ratio Just Hit It’s Lowest Level in Over a Decade – Should Investors Worry?
Consumer Staples are at their lowest levels relative to the S&P 500 in over a decade. Consumer Staples stocks are defensive stocks – acting as a safe haven during market volatility for investors or institutions that don’t, or can’t, move to cash or bonds. We call these investors the “long only community”. These are companies…
Read MoreThis Index is Overperforming the S&P 500
Small-cap stocks have crushed the performance of the S&P 500 by more than 2.5X over the last 3 months, returning a staggering 34.27%. Can it last…? Most of our ADAPT articles focus on sector rotation – sharing with our readers the relative strength relationships that we analyze between one sector or industry group vs. another.…
Read MoreDon’t miss this leading indicator…
This leading market indicator is giving you a second chance – don’t miss it! Price, relative strength and momentum are what guide our process. Sprinkle in the importance of intermarket relationships and now we’ve got something. This doesn’t have to be complicated or mysterious. Sometimes, perhaps often, simple and straightforward is the real key to…
Read MoreStocks Are Ripping Higher
To be blunt, this market is ripping higher! We’re seeing a lot of new highs. In fact, we saw more new highs in November on both the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq than we’ve seen since early 2018 – the former peak for risk on assets across the globe. Back in January and…
Read MoreHistoric Drop Incoming?
“Octoberphobia”… the term used to describe the phenomenon of major market drops occurring during the month of October. October’s a month that often evokes fear on Wall Street, as memories are stirred of crashes like that in 1929, the rout in 1987 or the 554-point drop on October 27, 1997. It was the week ending…
Read MoreIs the Bottom in for Stocks?
Last Friday morning’s news that President Trump and the First Lady had tested positive for the coronavirus spooked markets, sending stocks to a sharply lower open. Hours later, rumor of a possible new round of fiscal stimulus checks helped stocks make back some of the day’s earlier losses. By the end of the day, however,…
Read MoreThe DOW plunged — is it time to be fearful?
Tuesday morning there was an email in my inbox with the subject line, “Sell, sell, sell.” I have to admit, it got my attention. It was a dire warning from a contrarian investment “guru” forecasting the end of the bull market — and the world as we know it. If you sold some stock near…
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