Chris Ciovacco

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• Stock Bears Have Made Little Headway Thus Far

  Published 20 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Bulls Get Good Manufacturing Report On Wednesday, we noted stock market bulls needed some good economic news. They got it Thursday. From Bloomberg: U.S. stocks…

• Three Reasons Bulls Need To Pay Closer Attention

  Published 19 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Liquidity is contracting Economy is vulnerable Hesitation near recent highs Fed Minutes Speak To Ongoing Taper Liquidity is a politically correct term for Fed money…

• Stock Rally Near Probabilistic Sweet Spot

  Published 18 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Slow Growth Still A Concern While Janet Yellen signaled last week the Fed's taper game plan was still in place, recent economic data has the…

• How To Deal With The Scary 1929 Parallel Chart

  Published 11 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Pay Attention, Then Adjust As Needed Tuesday's gain of 19 points in the S&P 500 is a good example of markets showing observable improvement before…

• Preparing For Tuesday's Plethora Of Fed Speakers

  Published 10 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Market's Reaction Key For Stocks, Bonds, & Gold If you were wondering why the financial markets were trading in a tentative range for most of…

• Improving Profile More Favorable For Stocks

  Published 07 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Economy Robust Enough Markets have countless moving parts, which means trying to figure out why the market does what it does, is difficult at best.…

• We Are About To Learn A Lot About Rally Attempt

  Published 06 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Friday Labor Report To Set Weekly Tone As of 2:30 p.m. EST Thursday, the S&P's weekly scorecard still reflected a loss of 11 points, meaning…

• How Much Further Could Stocks Drop?

  Published 04 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Too Early To Tell What Bounce Means After seeing the S&P 500 shed 108 points from its recent peak to Monday's close, dip buyers jumped…

• Is Evidence Piling Up For A Sustainable Bottom In Stocks?

  Published 03 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Manufacturing Data Spooks Markets Last week, we noted that buying dips in 2014 was riskier than doing so in 2013. Markets often anticipate bad news.…

• Dip Buying Riskier Now Than In 2013

  Published 31 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Worst January Since 2010 The trend of disappointing earnings continued Friday, adding to concerns about the economy's ability to step up as the Fed tries…

• Flexibility Important During Indecisive Periods

  Published 30 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Market Nervous About Life After QE The stock market has operated with Fed assistance for a lengthy period relative to historical standards. Wednesday, the Fed…

• Yellow Flags For Stocks Started Waving Last Week

  Published 29 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Fed Continues To Trim The Fed stuck to their tapering script Wednesday and announced another reduction in the amount of bonds they plan to buy…

• Stocks Have Done Little To Address Concerns

  Published 28 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Economy Has To Step Up Many elements are in place for stocks to perform well over the coming months, but investors are still waiting for…

• Investment Probabilities Say Market Has To Prove It

  Published 27 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Fundamentals and Technicals Both Waning Deterioration in risk-on vs. risk-off charts contributed to our incremental risk-reduction moves last Thursday and Friday. Charts feed off of…

• Why We Cut Stocks, Added Bonds Thursday and Friday

  Published 24 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Global Concerns Increasing Investors were greeted with more "red" Friday morning. The S&P futures were down 11 points two hours before the opening bell rang.…

• Risk-Off Has Not Done This Since Early 2013

  Published 23 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  China + Weak Momentum = Selloff When the stock market goes sideways, as it did for the last month, it speaks to waning bullish momentum.…

• Are Default Fears Spreading From China To The U.S.?

  Published 22 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  China Has A Problem When the U.S. markets are healthy, overseas concerns often get overlooked. You have seen headlines about China recently, but may not…

• 1987 vs. 2014: Should We Be Concerned About A Crash?

  Published 21 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Why You Should Care About Black Monday Since it happe32ned 26 years ago, many investors have lost perspective on the widespread financial damage that occurred…

• Managing Risk In A Mature Bull Market

  Published 17 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Legitimate Fear of Investing Cash Near A Top On January 16, we presented the chart below, which shows the possible negative impact of holding too…

• Concerned About Being Underinvested? You Should Be

  Published 16 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Investors Need Plans For Extreme Outcomes In calculus, the concept of "limits approaching infinity" speaks to extreme outcomes. Like a mathematician, investors can look for…