Solar Stock Update
On February 19th we had a post that asked if solar stocks were intrinsically cheap. By “intrinsically cheap” we meant relative to the average and worst paths that other bubbles, after they had collapsed, had taken off their-all time highs…....
Market’s Zero-Sum Nature Should Continue to Work in Favor of this Former High-Flying Industry
In September of last year we had a post suggesting the market is thematic and that every dog tends to have its day in the sun and that old-line technology stocks were about to begin sun-bathing. That belief was largely…...
Is the Nikkei’s Run of Material Out-Performance vs. Other Global Indices Over or is There More Remaining?
The ratio of the DJ World Stock Index vs. Nikkei is plotted below. It was this ratio, among other things, which helped get us very bullish on the index from an execution standpoint, in 2012, in our humble opinion, well…...
Attractive Long Opportunities in this Industry Group
I favor some financial services / asset managers based on the bullish looking charts below. LM and SCHW appear the most bullish and as if they have broken out into areas that portend materially more upside. Broadly speaking, given the…...
Butter, Meet Hot Knife
Coming into this week the Nikkei faced incredibly important and formidable resistance. As a refresh that resistance included: A falling trend-line off the 1989 and 2007 highs – the most important tops in the index’s history 61.8% Fib retracement resistance,…
How to Catch TSLA-like Moves Before They Occur
In the past three months TSLA shares have doubled. How does one catch a move like that before it occurs? Well, there’s never so much as a guarantee in the markets, but silly little lines can help, or at least…
Potential for a 50% Rally in This Stock is Rising
Note the stock below is working on a break above line (2) which represents its 23.6% Fib resistance formed off its recent highs and lows. This resistance, as indicated by the red arrows, has been formidable for the stock over…
Analog Update
Haven’t updated analogs in a while so this will be an exhaustive attempt at that. 1) 4th & 5th Consecutive Annual Gain – All ex 1928/1929 – Dow 1A) 4th & 5th Consecutive Annual Gain – 1988/1989 vs. 2012/2013 –…...
Nikkei Faces Critical Resistance, What Would a Break Above Do?
As we’ve said all along, 14K seemed like a likely upside target for the Nikkei this year. Now that we’re there, what do we do? To be honest, we’ve not been sure and have vacillated back/forth b/t a new secular bull beginning…...
Bullish Looking Technical Set-Ups in This Industry
Below are some interesting technical set-ups in semiconductor related names. Have been struggling to find many such set-ups across the market/industry landscape of late, but those below reasonably appealing (some more than others). The larger-cap ones are likely the best…...