Marty Chenard

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• What Does the Bottom of a Bear Market Look Like? ...

  Published 02 April 2009 | viewed 5,064 times

  Today, we posted our second study on "How a Bear Market ends". The first was a study of what the Institutional Investors did relative to…

• Can the Toxic Asset Problem be Fixed So Easily?

  Published 24 March 2009 | viewed 4,376 times

  Geithner and the Banks ... What is one of the major purposes for removing the toxic assets from the banking system? To get banks to…

• What MUST Happen Before a New Bull Market Starts?

  Published 20 March 2009 | viewed 4,731 times

  It has probably been a few months since we last shared our Institutional Index chart with you. Many of you know that following what Institutional…

• You Will NOT have a Market Reversal Without this Index ...

  Published 17 March 2009 | viewed 5,664 times

  Some investors were excited last week with a nice market move on oversold conditions. Is it real, or is it part of a market attempt…

• Never Do the Opposite of What Institutional Investors are Doing...

  Published 13 March 2009 | viewed 5,475 times

  You will lose money if you go against the action of what Institutional Investors are doing. Many of you subscribe to Investors Business Daily and…

• Can this Slowly Building, Positive Event Reach a Critical Mass?

  Published 05 March 2009 | viewed 5,208 times

  Is there a "pent up demand" brewing of investors who want to become BUYERS? We have talked a lot about divergences in the past week.…

• An Important Stock Market Concept ...

  Published 03 March 2009 | viewed 6,213 times

  A powerful use of the Moving Average concept ... Most investors use Moving Averages on their charts ... like the 20 day, 50 day, 100…

• Watch "Opposing Forces" as the SP is Testing its Low

  Published 26 February 2009 | viewed 4,362 times

  Can a market positive and a market negative coexists at the same time? The answer is: For a short period of time. What you are…

• Watch this Index Very Closely ...

  Published 24 February 2009 | viewed 5,837 times

  Some investors are finding things confusing. For Instance, last Friday the markets closed with the major indexes giving completely different pictures when we looked at…

• Why Liquidity Outflows is Keeping the Market Down ...

  Published 21 February 2009 | viewed 4,274 times

  Let's talk about Liquidity versus the Stock Market today ... When Liquidity is expanding, then there is more money available to chase fewer goods and…

• A Growing European Fear, and What Institutions Are Doing ...

  Published 17 February 2009 | viewed 5,856 times

  Institutional Investors haven't panicked yet, but there is a "growing European fear" that may spill over. In the past, we have discussed why Institutional Investors…

• Are Market Risks High or Low?

  Published 13 February 2009 | viewed 3,940 times

  Are Market risk increasing or decreasing? The Relative Strength Indicator with a setting of 30 days is one of the most important technical tools to…

• An Important "Day of Judgment" for the Rescue Plan ...

  Published 10 February 2009 | viewed 4,076 times

  A moment the market has been waiting for ... The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) has not gone well. Unaccountability for funds was a major…

• A Very Exciting and Important Week for the Markets?

  Published 03 February 2009 | viewed 4,380 times

  It was on October 24th., that the VIX (Volatility Index) had hit its high. The VIX moves opposite to the market, so a high on…

• X-Rays That Show What Can't Be Seen on the Stock Market's Surface?

  Published 28 January 2009 | viewed 6,442 times

  You are looking at the highway and see a car moving swiftly, efficiently, and smoothly down the road. You think in my youngest son's vernacular…

• Does a Down Moving VIX Always Mean That the Market Will Move Up?

  Published 28 January 2009 | viewed 5,638 times

  As you are well aware, the market is often in conflict with opposing conditions. Take the VIX and the S&P's Relative Strength for instance. If…

• What's Next? Another Leg Down, or a Rally?

  Published 22 January 2009 | viewed 5,373 times

  Most investors only look at what is happening to the "Broad Market". For instance, tracking the action of an index such as the S&P or…

• The Institutional 6 Week Trading Range is Close to Ending

  Published 14 January 2009 | viewed 4,312 times

  This Friday, it will be 6 full weeks that the Institutional Index has stayed within its trading range ... will it make it that long?…

• What the Market Needs Now ...

  Published 06 January 2009 | viewed 3,417 times

  Investors who were on the wrong side of the market got pretty beat up in the past few months. The worse the beating, the longer…

• What's in Store for 2009?

  Published 02 January 2009 | viewed 5,638 times

  If you have been listening to CNBC or Bloomberg, you have probably picked up on a "growing expectation" that we will come out of the…