Chris Ciovacco

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• Oil's Rise May Flip Fed Back To 'We Plan To Raise Rates' Script

  Published 20 April 2016 | viewed 0 times

  The Federal Reserve is due to release their next formal policy statement April 27 at 2:00 pm ET Fed's Constant Assistance Is A Two-Sided Coin…

• Stocks Have Gone Sideways While Earnings Have Tanked

  Published 11 April 2016 | viewed 0 times

  S&P 500: Sideways For Seventeen Months If stocks are driven by earnings, then it would be logical to assume that during a period of sideways…

• Credit Markets Point To Rising Default Rates

  Published 07 April 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Yield vs. Safety Of Principal If an investor was given the opportunity to invest in two nearly identical bonds with one bond paying 2% per…

• What Can We Learn From Economically-Sensitive ETFs?

  Published 04 April 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Cyclicals Have Lost Their Confident Look We can learn a lot from the chart below, which shows the performance of economically-sensitive stocks relative to the…

• The Easiest Way For The Bullish Case To Improve

  Published 29 March 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Since the stock market bottomed in February, OPEC has talked about the possibility of capping oil production and central banks have assisted with accommodative measures…

• How Important Is The Coming Buyback Blackout Period For Stocks?

  Published 21 March 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Buybacks To Be Put On Hold Corporate stock buyback programs are typically put on hold during the five week period leading up to earnings season.…

• Earnings Are Expected To Decline For Five Consecutive Quarters

  Published 15 March 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Markets are forecasting mechanisms and they typically shift into a weak technical profile for a reason. One possible explanation for the concerning look of longer-term…

• Oil Rally Faces Big Test This Week

  Published 14 March 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Business Plans Did Not Include Oil Prices This Low The issues facing the oil industry can be summed up via a quote that recently appeared…

• Negative Rates Attempt To Inflate Away Government Debt

  Published 09 March 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Negative Interest Rates Unpopular With the European Central Bank (ECB) getting ready to take center stage Thursday, the concept of negative interest rates has many…

• Earnings Expectations Starting To Align With Weak Technicals

  Published 07 March 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Earnings Expectations Dropping Rapidly Markets tend to peak before weakness shows up in economic and corporate data. The S&P 500 has not posted a new…

• Weak Economic Data Aligns With Market's Primary Trend

  Published 29 February 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Housing Data Comes In Below Expectations The economy continues to produce mixed signals for investors; some data looks good and some not so good. Falling…

• Are Junk Bonds Saying Economic Trouble Lies Ahead?

  Published 23 February 2016 | viewed 0 times

  What Are Riskier Segments Of The Market Telling Us? The major U.S. market indexes got off to their worst start in history this year, which…

• Is Extreme Bearish Sentiment A Reason To Buy?

  Published 20 February 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Sentiment Can Be Helpful Near Extremes When investor sentiment reaches extreme levels, it can be a contrary indicator for the stock market. For example, the…

• Big Rallies Are Common In Bear Markets

  Published 15 February 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Green Days And Green Weeks Common During Downtrends If we were having dinner with a friend while the markets were closed, it would be easy…

• Dow Theory Signal - What Does It Mean?

  Published 11 February 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Charts Monitor, Rather Than Dismiss Fundamental Data Critics of technical analysis often mistakenly believe that using charts discounts the importance of fundamental data, such as…

• Will Dividend Stocks Save You In A Bear Market?

  Published 10 February 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Myth Busters - Dividend Stocks Are Safe In recent years, many investors have been attracted to the "safety" and "wealth-building" appeal of dividend stocks. Therefore,…

• Bonds Continue To Flash Warning Signs For Stocks

  Published 08 February 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Defensive Assets Strong Early In Week When investors are fearful, common sense tells us demand picks up for more conservative assets, which is exactly what…

• How Is The Bullish 1994 Stock Analogy Holding Up?

  Published 04 February 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Charts Provide An Unbiased Reference Point One of the great things about stock charts is they allow us to track the markets using reference points…

• Fed Speaker Monday / SP500 Charts 2000, 2007, and 2016

  Published 01 February 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Fed Speaker Monday After last week's Fed statement, the market will be looking for some additional insight when Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer speaks Monday.…

• Can Apple Provide A Bullish Reversal Catalyst For Stock Market?

  Published 26 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  An Apple A Day Apple (AAPL) is due to report earnings after the bell Tuesday. Wall Street is known for lowering expectations prior to earnings…