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Market Not as Skittish About International Conflict Of late, I have noticed that the ties between the political fanfare and the stock market is becoming less and less. Until late, anytime Trump tweeted about anything that had the slightest connection to the stock market, the stock and/or industry it was associated with, woudl have a

The Wall of Worry The market isn’t giving us those warm, wholesome feelings, but that is what climbing the wall of worry is all about. Everyone is paranoid, traders with a concept of risk, are looking over their should the whole time, wondering when is this thing going to end. Meanwhile, others can’t take it

Show some follow through Friday’s move was quite subtle but very strong as well. What started off as a day trading sideways like each of the days of the past eight trading sessions, changed its tune in the afternoon and broke out of the short-term price range and rallied to new all time highs by

The Fourth is Strong with this Market For a moment there, just a moment, it looked like the market was going to lose its marbles and actually experience a legitimate sell-off yesterday. But nope, it didn’t and now you have “May the Fourth” playing Jedi mind tricks on the Wall Street bears in the pre market

This stock market can’t break out of the range bound price action The price action has become very dull among the indices. In fact, this is the tightest 6-day trading range in the last 23 years. For many of you, that is before you ever started trading. Needless to say, what goes up, must come

Take a look at these bearish trade setups Maybe the market will finally correct. Who knows!?! The resiliency of the market is a thing to behold. Honestly though, it just takes $10 trillion of endless QE worldwide and you can prop anything up.  Nonetheless, the charts look bearish, the S&P 500 acts like it wants

Here is wher you can find yourself a bullish trade setup The market has traded lower for most of the day, but after a hard sell-off early on, it is attempting to stage its own recovery. If that happens, you have a whole list of bullish trade setups below that you can trade off of.

The Nasdaq Close was based on closing price not intraday all-time highs. That close for the Nasdaq is a good thing for the bulls and the rest of the market, because the Nasdaq has been leading the way for the past few months. And by hitting new closing highs, it increases the odds that the

Short-term triangle pattern on SPX SPX has been coiling in a triangle pattern the past three weeks now, or essentially, this entire month of trading. It has pulled back to the rising trend-line that forms the bottom half of the triangle pattern. However, it has only experienced a mild, light volume pullback over the past

Watch the trend-line on the chart of the S&P 500 A lot can change here today or this week if the rising trend-line as noted in the chart of the S&P 500 below fails to hold. You have a potential topping pattern – emphasis on “potential” – with a new all time high that was