Tag: stock market analysis

It's been a volatile week for the markets. After opening the week higher, the S&P 500 reversed course and headed lower on Tuesday and...

During the past 6 months, the stock market has lost some momentum. It's basically traded sideways and this has allowed several trend lines to...

Stocks continue to have trouble gaining traction above 2100 on the S&P 500 (SPX). The broad stock market index has traded in a wide...

Probabilities Rather Than Forecasting Long-time followers of CCM know we are not fans of market forecasting, which drags the human desire “to be right” into...

After another stealth selloff early last week, the NASDAQ Composite recovered nicely on Friday. That rally started right at its uptrend line and has...

Market turning points are ugly. Speaking of individual stock breakdowns, this week’s ‘turning point pain’ has been pretty severe. When the market starts to pull...

One market leading indicator (and sector) is the consumer. If the consumer and consumer-related stocks are healthy, the stock market tends to perform well....

Ned Davis, founder of the very well-respected Ned Davis Research firm has some interesting thoughts on the suspected large amount of cash that is...

Overview This is a top-down technical review of the Information Technology (IT) sector, which incorporates relative strength analysis not only to judge the overall health...

As we noted in a post last month, there is a strong seasonal tendency for the large caps (via the SPDR S&P 500 ETF -...