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Chris Ciovacco

Chris Ciovacco

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

Biography

Chris Ciovacco is the Chief Investment Officer for Ciovacco Capital Management, LLC.

  • Bulls' Margin Of Error Razor Thin

    Published 07 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

    President Has Not Budged The financial markets have been treading water for weeks hoping the political process will bear something resembling fruit. Monday stayed on…

  • Are Politicians Pushing Their Luck With The Stock Market?

    Published 03 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

    Political Bickering Continues The futures were tame this morning until the U.S. Treasury issued a statement warning of "a large, adverse, and persistent financial shock"…

  • Four Reasons To Respect The Bearish Case

    Published 02 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

    The Glass Half Empty Quad: The Fed will phase out QE Waning bullish conviction Deflationary forces Tepid global growth Bullish Case Has Been Covered Regular…

  • Market Fear: 2013 vs. U.S. Downgrade and Fiscal Cliff

    Published 01 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

    Blame Game Begins Were gains in stocks all that surprising on the first day of a government shutdown? Somewhat, but we noted Monday the markets…

  • Are The Markets Looking Past The Budget Battle?

    Published 30 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

    Stronger Than Expected Before giving in to some late day selling, the stock market was holding up relatively well Monday given the negative drag from…

  • Is A 2011 Like Plunge In Stocks Coming Next Week?

    Published 27 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

    Worst Week Since 2008 Financial Crisis Below is a quick refresher course on the 2011 events that led to the "most volatile week in stocks…

  • Is The Market Tipping A Bearish Hand?

    Published 26 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

    Bears Have Allies In Washington Markets hate uncertainty. Washington loves to create uncertainty since it provides leverage in political negotiations. From Bloomberg: The Senate likely…

  • Will The D.C. Standoff Derail The Bulls?

    Published 23 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

    Never A Dull Moment You can say a lot of things about working in the money management business, but you cannot include the words dull…

  • What Are The Markets Telling Us About Risk?

    Published 20 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

    Fed Brings Uncertainty Just two short days ago the Fed told us the economic data did not justify tapering their monthly bond purchases. The stock…

  • Evidence Said Be Bullish Before Fed - Still Does

    Published 19 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

    Fed Does Unexpected, But Was It Really A Surprise? Below is Bloomberg's summary of Wednesday's highly anticipated Fed policy statement: Ben S. Bernanke reinforced his…

  • The Perfect Fed Statement For Stock Market Bulls

    Published 18 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

    The Bullish Trifecta Fed Statement Reduce monthly bond purchases by $10B. Future tapering decisions will be data dependent. Pledge to keep interest rates low for…

  • Fed Meeting: Two Key Questions For Stock Bulls

    Published 17 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

    Market's Next Move Hangs In The Balance With Larry Summers out of the picture, the financial markets are facing two key questions: What does Janet…

  • Ding Dong The Summers Witch Is Dead

    Published 16 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

    Democrats Objected Strongly Many hypothesized the financial markets were less than thrilled about the possibility of a Fed led by Larry Summers. The reaction in…

  • Tapering and Larry Summers: Bulls' Death Knell?

    Published 15 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

    A Fed Chairman Named Larry? President Obama has referenced numerous times the need to avoid what he called "artificial bubbles", which led to our hypothesis…

  • Fed Tapering Announcement Should Not Surprise Markets

    Published 12 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

    Living Under A Rock The Fed has been telegraphing "tapering " to the markets since late May, or for over four months. Unless you live…

  • Can Emerging Markets Give Bulls New Life?

    Published 11 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

    Emerging Markets Have A Pulse The best investments have positive technicals and positive fundamentals. How long the emerging trend in the China ETF (FXI) lasts…

  • Bullish Tests Coming From Fed and Technicals

    Published 10 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

    Progress, But Not Out Of Woods Yet The financial markets continued to rise early Tuesday afternoon based on a carryover from Monday's news regarding Syria…

  • Fed's Tough Sell: Printing vs. Pledging

    Published 09 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

    Understanding QE Quantitative Easing (QE) involves pumping freshly printed electronic dollars into the hands of the Fed's primary dealers in exchange for bonds. A bond…

  • Flexible Migration Strategy

    Published 04 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

    Investors Flee Bond Fund When the world's largest bond fund sees over $7 billion in net outflows, it tells us the tide may have turned…

  • Is Gold's Bullish Turn Sustainable?

    Published 03 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

    Gold has been outperforming both stocks and long-dated Treasuries in recent weeks. Below are four possible scenarios for the yellow metal looking out several weeks:…