Chris Ciovacco

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• Three Charts That Convey A Lot Of Information About The Stock Market

  Published 23 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Stocks Peak in 2000 The chart below shows the 2000 peaking process in the NASDAQ. The index made a lower high, a lower low, and…

• Skeptical Sentiment In A Sideways Market: Bullish Or Bearish For Stocks?

  Published 22 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Skeptical Sentiment - What Could It Mean? As shown in the chart below, the S&P 500 has made very little progress over the past five…

• Are Stocks Set Up For A 2011-Like Plunge?

  Published 15 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  2011 - Déjà vu All Over Again? In 2011, stocks moved sideways for several months as questions about the sustainability of the eurozone dominated the…

• The Dirty Little Secrets Of Diversified ETF/Mutual Fund Investing

  Published 09 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  History Says Implementation Not Easy There are many different ways to invest, including using a diversified portfolio of ETFs and/or mutual funds. For example, we…

• Margin Debt: What Does History Say About New Highs And Stock Returns?

  Published 03 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  You may have run across an article or two stating that NYSE margin debt recently reached an all-time high (ATH). Some of the articles equate…

• Are Stock Bears Being Too Pessimistic?

  Published 01 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Glimmer Of Hope Monday's widely-followed ISM Manufacturing Index came in above expectations with a reading of 52.8. A reading above 50 indicates growth in manufacturing.…

• Stock Market Top-Callers Are Missing One Key Ingredient

  Published 29 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Ding Dong! The Wicked Bull Is Dead If you follow the markets, you may have noticed a recent increase in "the bull is over" articles.…

• Is The Strong Dollar a Showstopper for Stock Bulls?

  Published 27 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Easy To Blame The Dollar During the May 26 selloff in stocks, we heard numerous "blame it on the strong dollar" comments similar to the…

• Transportation Average - A Big Concern For Stock Bulls?

  Published 21 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Weakness In Transports In 2015 If you follow the markets, you have probably heard about the "non-confirmation" warning being flashed by the fact the Dow…

• 2015 And Historical Bear Market Triggers

  Published 20 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Common sense tells us something typically changes as stocks shift from a bull market to a bear market, meaning people need a reason to say…

• Breakouts Or Fakeouts?

  Published 19 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Conviction Drives Pricing When the conviction to own stocks is higher than the conviction to sell stocks, markets tend to rise. Therefore, we can learn…

• Is The Smart Money Running For Cover?

  Published 18 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Will Greece Be The Bearish Straw? The debt clock continues to tick in Greece, which is something the stock market bulls need to respect. From…

• A Bullish Scenario For Stocks

  Published 14 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  While we make decisions based on observable evidence (rather than forecasting), it is always a good idea to understand bullish and bearish possibilities. One bullish…

• Talk Of A Stock Market Crash - How Concerned Should We Be?

  Published 11 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  A MarketWatch opinion piece published on 05/11/15 has the attention-grabbing headline "Countdown to the stock market Crash of 2016 is ticking louder". How often have…

• 'Sell In May' Often A Big Mistake Historically

  Published 04 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  A Cute Little Rhyme Having worked on Wall Street for over twenty years, I have had countless conversations about the seasonal tendency for investors to…

• Flash Crash II: How Concerned Should We Be?

  Published 29 April 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Fear Causes Underinvestment Syndrome It is very common for "fear of bad things happening soon" to cause investors to hold significant amounts of cash, which…

• Greece: A Logical Way To Monitor Risk To Your Investments

  Published 27 April 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Fear Of The Unknown Is Difficult To Manage Against If you have cash to invest, there is always a logical reason to "wait until things…

• Developments In Foreign Stock Markets Are Hard To Ignore

  Published 21 April 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Markets Care About Money Printing While the Federal Reserve has ended its quantitative easing (QE) program, central banks in Europe and Asia continue to implement…

• Is Energy About To Take Off?

  Published 20 April 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Important Week For Sector The energy sector ETF (XLE) dropped 28% from its June 2014 high to the 2015 low. Last week, XLE completed the…

• Can The Bulls March Through Earnings?

  Published 13 April 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Earnings Guidance The stock market will be looking for clues about the strength of the U.S. economy when several big name companies report earnings this…