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The market continues to live up to my expectations. The movement on any given day is dictated by the news flow, and as I’ve warned would likely be the case, we’ve seen the indexes gap down and gap up depending on the latest trade news. This makes for a whip-saw environment that does not necessarily lend itself to investing but can be exploited on a swing-trading basis. Today’s action... Read More

The market’s wild and woolly action did not let up all week long. The NASDAQ Composite and S&P 500 Indexes both regained their 50-dmas on Thursday as they got right back to where they started the week. The three-day rally was greeted on Friday with a gap-down open, and the market went into the spin-cycle from there. The indexes rallied off their gap-down... Read More

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The big picture is a market rotating away from small-cap/mid-cap/growth and into large-cap/S&P 500/blue-chip stocks. The clearest signs of this divergence can be found in charts of the cumulative NYSE advance-decline line and the % of NYSE stocks above their 50- and 200-day moving averages. This rotation into lower-risk names is classic late-cycle behavior. It has been discussed numerous... Read More

Stocks remain in good shape, bolstered by strong earnings growth and still-low interest rates. The Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 are just days off their all-time highs, while the advance’s breadth is solid. Leadership in the growth sector has been notable, with a few liquid glamours leading the way along with numerous more-speculative issues, including Tilray (TLRY), Bandwidth... Read More

Stock averages continue to hold their own as proceedings move through a normally slower season of vacations. While volume left a little something to be desired on the S&P 500’s latest move to a new high, turnover on the Nasdaq made up for that. ... Read More

The averages make progress as they put their brief June swoon behind them. Volume remains less than desired, especially at the level of the averages. For example, activity has actually diminished on all four S&P rallies since the Apr. 2 low. ... Read More