Airlines Under-Perform by 10% on the Week…Are Silly Little Lines the Only Things That Matter?
There are plenty of people out there on the intra-webs (far more intelligent than us, no doubt) that spend their days opining on the virtues of why it’s essential for our financial-souls and well-being that we understand the inner workings…
GE May Provide Excellent Read-Throughs to Future Risk Appetite in the Broader Market
Present the Dow below with a large inset of the ratio of GE vs. the SPX. Note that the ratio of GE vs. SPX has tended to trade in a sideways, cyclical channel since the 1970s as defined by lines…...
Where’s the Next Great Bull Market?
The first chart below plots the relative value of the Mid-Cap 400 Value Index vs. SPX from 2000-October 2002. This was the bear market coming off the heels of the tech bubble. As the chart suggests – the SPX was…
Industry About to Deliver a Dose of Pain or Gain?
Ratio of the DJ Drug Retailer Index vs. SPX below. Continue to believe this ascending triangle pattern is of the bullish variety (typically is) and that this group is about to break-out and sustainably out-perform the market. Individually, here are…...
Spread Trade Idea In Commodities
The ratio of Nat Gas vs. Silver is presented below. It fell 97% into 2012 from its high in 2006. As it did so it formed an ever-tightening, bullish descending wedge pattern b/t lines (1) and (2). In late 2012…...
Quick Global Macro Overview
The ratio of the Nikkei vs. gold is reaching resistance after a massive 55%, four month rally off support. At the same time, gold sits at support itself. The Dow analog calls for a correction if the index can rally…...
Decade+ Relative Strength Break-Out in This Industry
The first chart below highlights the ratio of the DJ Home Furnishings Index vs. SPX. Note the break-out above falling resistance this past week which had been in place for over a decade and had defined this industry’s inexorable under-performance…...
Global Geo-Political Tensions about to Rise?
The ratio of the DJ Airlines Index vs. SPX is nearing a critical piece of resistance in the chart below. Interestingly, every time this resistance has been in play important geo-political events (including 9/11), especially those concerning the Middle East,…
More Evidence the Commodity & Emerging Market Secular Bull Run is Over
The chart below highlights the ratio of the DJ Basic Resources Index vs. SPX. Note the secular rise in the ratio from 2002-2008 indicating the ongoing strength of the secular bull market in basic resources, commodities and emerging markets/infrastructure growth….
Long-Term Meat Product Bull Market Over? Impact to Stocks & Industries?
The first half of this post’s title is not a joke. In the charts below live and feeder cattle have been battling quarter-century, long-term channel resistance over the past two years, having, along with the rest of the commodity group,…...