Weekly Market Outlook – Two Steps Forward and One Step Back, Right on Cue

Nobody can honestly say they were surprised the market hit a wall and peeled back on Friday. There are a million things that could easily go wrong for the market here. And, while there are a million things that can still go right, most of them had already been priced in since late June. Stocks were ripe for a little...

Three obscure charts are pointing to weakness for stocks

By Matt Maley, CNBC All it takes is a peek under the market's hood to see several warning signs cropping up for stocks. Specifically, three measures of breadth, including the number of stocks advancing relative to the number declining – a way to take the market's temperature – have been experiencing some meaningful cracks recently. We've all heard about how...

Three obscure charts are pointing to weakness for stocks

By Matt Maley, CNBC All it takes is a peek under the market's hood to see several warning signs cropping up for stocks. Specifically, three measures of breadth, including the number of stocks advancing relative to the number declining – a way to take the market's temperature – have been experiencing some meaningful cracks recently. We've all heard about how...

Why it pays to be a stock-market contrarian, in one chart

– ETFs with the highest outflows tend to see better future returns – By Ryan Vlastelica, MarketWatch One of famed investor Warren Buffett's favorite stock-market aphorisms is that traders should be "fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful." Market watchers have long seen being a contrarian as a path to gains. It can seem scary to...

Why it pays to be a stock-market contrarian, in one chart

– ETFs with the highest outflows tend to see better future returns – By Ryan Vlastelica, MarketWatch One of famed investor Warren Buffett's favorite stock-market aphorisms is that traders should be "fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful." Market watchers have long seen being a contrarian as a path to gains. It can seem scary to...

The oil market gets whiplash, and investors should expect more crude volatility

By Gina Sanchez, CNBC The oil market is getting whiplash, rocked by bullish and bearish catalysts at once. While European Brent crude oil has managed to rally to $78 per barrel this year, the U.S. benchmark WTI crude is struggling to maintain the $70 per barrel level. Indeed, both prices have been climbing since the bottom in early 2016, but...

The oil market gets whiplash, and investors should expect more crude volatility

By Gina Sanchez, CNBC The oil market is getting whiplash, rocked by bullish and bearish catalysts at once. While European Brent crude oil has managed to rally to $78 per barrel this year, the U.S. benchmark WTI crude is struggling to maintain the $70 per barrel level. Indeed, both prices have been climbing since the bottom in early 2016, but...

Proprietary System Shows Rally Could Extend Higher

The following Weekly charts are illustrations of one of our proprietary price modeling systems that shows trends, market breadth and much more.  We use this almost exclusively on longer-term (Weekly, Monthly, and Quarterly charts) to help us understand where longer-term support and resistance levels are, where the market ranges are truly important and to determine true market breadth.  When we...

Proprietary System Shows Rally Could Extend Higher

The following Weekly charts are illustrations of one of our proprietary price modeling systems that shows trends, market breadth and much more.  We use this almost exclusively on longer-term (Weekly, Monthly, and Quarterly charts) to help us understand where longer-term support and resistance levels are, where the market ranges are truly important and to determine true market breadth.  When we...

Weekly Market Outlook – Indecision (Still) Abounds

It was an all-too-familiar refrain. Stocks drop hints that they're finally ready to roll higher in earnest, and just when it looks like they're moving, they rollover. The S&P 500 basically broke even last week, and ended the week pointed lower. It's not the end of the world. The market is taking two steps forward for every one step back....
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