The investing landscape couldn’t be any better for investors than it has proven to be in 2022. Now, before you stop reading for fear of lunacy of the author, let me explain. One of the foremost principles of investing is to “buy low and sell high”. In other words, value is the friend of the…
Research Report Excerpt #1 “Assuming, assuming one could be that best market timer in the world, the difference between that amount of work and simply buying the index ETF and holding it through ups and downs is a meager 1 percent. That’s it, that’s all one achieves above the Buy and Hold strategy. In other…
Research Report Excerpt #1 COMPOUNDING is a difficult concept for traders! We dont understand geometric growth as easily as linear growth, because its not intuitive. The chart above helps to depict why, when stocks go up its a win, and when they go down its a longer-term win due to compounding. If you can’t rationalize, that should prices…
Research Report Excerpt #1 After a 3rd straight weekly decline in the major averages, the AAII investor sentiment fell back to one of the lowest Bullish readings in history, only trumped by the lows seen this past June. Headlines reinforced the fear that investors have felt throughout 2022, and the price action has mirrored the…
Research Report Excerpt #1 At the end of the second quarter, the S&P 500’s price was 3,785. There’s still another month left to go in the quarter that currently followed that 15%+ drop. We’ll have another 23 trading days to see if the markets can lean into the greater probability identified in the data sets…
Research Report Excerpt #1 Our first chart comes to us from Chris Ci0vacco. As we had discussed in the past, there will be many, many market participants and pundits that will lay claim to the recent rally as proving nothing more than a bear market rally. Heck, a prominent Wall Street strategist recently offered that…
Research Report Excerpt #1 Recall the table above that we had been tracking and suggesting may prove favorable for the back half of 2022? Since 1932, any time the S&P 500 was down 14% or greater through the first 120 days of the year, from that point forward the market was higher by year-end. And…
While investors, traders and all market participants await the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI), due out this Wednesday, here are some interesting thoughts and analysis from around the web. The above tweet from the Kobeissi Letter Twitter account is typical of the account holders bearish sentiment that pervades many investors. We strongly encourage avoiding such…
Is the market solidifying a bottom with a new uptrend having commenced since late June? Today’s conversation offers several indicators and historic technical guide posts that suggest investors should be looking to increase equity market exposure in the coming weeks and months if the historic probabilities repeat, if not rhyme. To watch the corresponding video…
Research Report Excerpt #1 That’s right. This past trading week was strong, but it wasn’t “uber” strong, as the kids say! In late May, the S&P 500 had a weekly gain of greater than 6%, as outlined below: From May 20th to May 27th, the market rallied greater than 6%. One step forward, but unfortunately that…
