T2108 Update (January 4, 2017) – A Tantalizing Day for the Stock Market

(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are likely to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other trades are … Read more

How the S&P 500’s Current Breakdown Increases the Odds of Further Selling

(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on September 8, 2015. Click here to read the entire piece.) This piece was inspired by a model of the stock market created by Daniel Moore in Seeking Alpha titled “Dow Sends Rare Signal At The August 2015 Month-End Close.” Moore’s model … Read more

Poor Participation In the Market’s All-Time Highs Drives Caution

I do not pay much attention to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIA) and greatly prefer the S&P 500 (SPY) as being more representative of the stock market. However, anyone with a pulse has likely heard or read the breathless headlines about the Dow’s all-time highs. The Dow is now up ten days in a … Read more