Posts Tagged ‘SPX’
Key Takeaways from Last Week’s Market
A week ago, I warned investors that the week ahead would be an important one for stocks and risk assets in general. And therefore an important week for investors. The direction stocks turned would tell us a lot about what to expect in the coming weeks and possibly spell the end of the current bull…
Read MoreWas That a Black Friday Sale or Sell-Off?
News that a new COVID-19 variant has surfaced in South Africa spooked global equity markets this past Friday causing a frenzied sell-off. The question coming into Monday’s open was whether that sell-off was an overreaction and an opportunity – or the beginning of a much deeper, panic-driven sell-off. My thinking was – if global markets…
Read MoreKeep On Trucking!
While many investors focus their attention on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, it’s the Dow transportation stocks that deserve a closer look. That’s where savvy investors are finding opportunity and the possibility for outsized gains. But don’t wait because these transportation stocks are speeding toward record highs and are at their highest level in nearly…
Read MoreWhat the Bond Market Can Tell Us About Stocks
You might be flying blind in the stock market if you miss this bond market signal… Today, you’re going to learn about what may be the single most important “cross-asset ratio” we track. Don’t worry about the wonky terminology. Cross-asset ratio just means we are looking at the price of two different things in relation…
Read MoreIs Gold Shining Again?
This week I’m going to circle back to an asset I wrote about in our February 22, 2021 edition of Adapt Weekly entitled “Will Gold Recover.” The crux of the article advised investors that Gold was an underperformer and should be avoided. And that’s what it did. It underperformed. From the Feb 22 publication until…
Read MoreDon’t Dismiss This Chart
Let’s get right to the point… The analysis we do is about making heads or tails out of the inter-market relationships that exist between global asset classes. What stocks are doing relative to bonds or gold or what the currency markets are telling us about risk… We’re always weighing the evidence. It is through this…
Read MoreWill Gold Recover?
Welcome to ADAPT Weekly – our weekly publication to investors seeking some of the most rewarding investment opportunities in the markets today. Through relative strength analysis, we uncover the strongest asset classes, sectors, and industry groups that are in uptrends and showing the potential for continued profits. As an investor, your success and profits are…
Read MoreIs now the time Financials breakout to new all-time highs?
In the most recent edition of ADAPT Weekly, I outlined an overwhelming number of relative strength signals that have developed and continue to develop, favoring global equities over all other asset classes. If you missed it, here’s a link to that article (click here to view article) – it’s an easy read and one I…
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.…
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