The Weekly Trend

In this week's episode, David and Kevin discuss the areas of the market at or reaching important areas of supply, international areas of the market that are continuing to hold up well, weekly versus monthly candles, and the strength out of momentum. 

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the potential new regime we have in stocks, with the S&P 500 back above its 200 day moving average. Bitcoin continues to behave nicely, reaching all-time highs this past week. Tech and Aerospace names lead the way. And what impact will interest rates play going forward, now that they are back to their 2023 highs?

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the strong demand that took the S&P 500 through 5800 like a Hot Knife through Butter. They highlight the need for sustained trade above the 200-day moving average on the S&P 500. In addition, they cover important developments in Healthcare Stocks, Technology Stocks, Rotation into Large-Cap Growth, International Stocks, Homebuilders, Bitcoin, Gold, and Semiconductors.

In this weeks episode, David and Ian discuss the price action over the last few weeks and where we now stand, continued strength from Bitcoin, foreign equities, and potential issues within the Consumer Discretionary sector. 

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the how strong the end of April and beginning of May has been for the market, breadth thrusts, and specific areas of the market holding up well, like Bitcoin, Global Infrastructure, and Growth areas. 

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the possibility for a Zweig breadth thrust, the important levels on the S&P 500 coming up, the areas of the market that are showing strength, the tariff narrative and market movement, and the need for follow-through on recent price movement. 

In this week's episode, David and Ian talk about the large up day witnessed on Wednesday and the lack of follow through later in the week, the strength out of Gold, weakness out of Silver, how Bitcoin is holding up relatively well, and how previously strong areas of the market are faring now. 

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the strong selling pressure witnessed this week, correlations moving to one, the importance of having a process, and what, if any areas of the market are holding up while the main indices pull back. 

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss International market strength, US market weakness, and important levels buyers must reclaim. In addition, they touch base on Gold, Bitcoin, Oil, Energy, Utilities, Breakfast food, Baseball, and the Masters. Not all market environments are the same.

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the appropriate risk-management process when US Markets are below their 200-day moving average. They also highlight what's happening with International stocks, US sectors, precious metals, the dollar, and crypto.

In this week's episode, Ian and Kevin give a quick update on the major indices being below their 200 day moving averages. They also talk about the sectors that are still above their 200 day moving averages, the continued strength out of international equities, gold, and copper. 

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the major indices currently below their 200 day moving averages, the current strength in international equities, Bitcoin struggling with $91,000, and what the potential scenarios are for the market with the S&P's current price action. 

 In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the continued bearish sentiment among market participants, certain areas of the market that are still within uptrends, the VIX, the Put/Call Ratio, and how you need to look at recent market moves in terms of an overall bigger picture.  

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the bearish sentiment among market participants and some of the mixed signals within sentiment indicators. They also discuss how a bearish move in the market over the near term, does not necessarily mean that there will not be gains within the market by year end. 

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the S&P hitting an all time high, recent consolidations, Russell 2000 continuing to lag behind, Gold, gauging the economy based on charts, and international equities with the recent pullback of the US Dollar. 

In this week's episode, David and Kevin discuss the back to back weeks with Monday morning gaps down, potential red flags in the market, risk-on bond relationships, Financials, important relative levels, and bearish sentiment. 

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the selloff witnessed over the weekend and earlier in the week, Nvidia, China and DeepSeek, how the broader market responded after Monday, and what the seasonality data is foreshadowing for market performance in 2025.

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the evidence that points to a continuation of the current bull market, like the new all time high for the S&P 500, year-to-date sector top performers, like Financials and European Financials, credit spreads, and the weakening of the U.S. Dollar. 

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the recent pullbacks to election gaps, and those sectors that held their gaps and reclaimed 50 day moving averages. They also discuss the current state of the growth versus value relationship and recent moves in commodities. 

In this week's episode, Ian and Kevin discuss the major indices and sectors that are either testing their election gaps or are already through their election gaps. They also discuss areas of the market below 200 day moving averages, recent moves in bonds, strong dollar, gold, commodities, and international equities. 

In this week's episode, David and Ian review the market developments witnessed in 2024, the start to 2025, the Santa Claus Rally, the U.S. Dollar, and the relationship between gold and U.S. equities. 

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss market results thus far for 2024, the 93% down day witnessed on Wednesday, market breadth, board games, and the benefits and advantages of trend following.

In this week's episode, Ian and Kevin discuss the recent developments in growth versus value in equities, resurgence of mega cap names, November 6th election price gaps, cryptocurrencies, and the U.S. Dollar. 

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss seasonality between Election Day and Inauguration Day, the best six-month period of the year, Bitcoin, and the potential resurgence of Large Cap Tech stocks. They also touch base on potential warning flags for this current market uptrend. 

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss Bitcoin's post-election rise, performance of momentum funds, Mega Cap Tech stocks, the US Dollar and Gold relationship, and the potential for a relative bottom in commodities. 

In this week's episode, Ian discusses the recent price action from the major indices following the post election jump last week, continued strength from Bitcoin, and the outlook for Large Cap and Small Cap stocks. 

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the initial market reaction following the election, seasonal expectations, and a healthy mindset to have around politics and your portfolio.

In this week's episode, David and Ian flashback to the Whaley and Zweig Breadth thrusts from one year ago. They highlight October's historical volatility except for a scary October 31st. In addition, they touch base on bonds, crypto, and the 6-month path forward.

In this weeks episode, David and Ian discuss seasonality, the upcoming election, biases, how you shouldn't fight the trend, Bitcoin, and Argentina. 

In this weeks episode, David and Ian discuss the continued strength from markets, despite underperformance from the Tech sector. Treasuries took another hard hit this week. Crude and Gold move higher, despite strength from the US Dollar. 

In this weeks episode, David and Ian discuss the strong performance seen from China, recent movements in Energy and the U.S. Dollar and what that means for the equity markets, developments in Retail, and keeping is simple with using technical analysis. 

In this weeks episode, David and Ian discuss the new highs in multiple areas across the market, the "interesting" reaction in interest rates after the Fed cut, and the big week for China. Also, if Tech isn't leading the market higher, where is the strength coming from?

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the continued uptrend in stocks, what type of appetite we are seeing in Bitcoin, and potential scenarios over the next 12 months.

In this week's episode, Ian and Kevin discuss the S&P being flat this week, risk off areas in fixed income, if recent movement in Utilities and Staples contradicts the risk off view, the Japanese Yen and Nikkei, and recent performance of value areas like Financials, Materials, and Industrials.

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the continued strength from equities, gold, and what a falling dollar means for an array of assets. 

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the market rebound above 5400, the long-term environment, and the concept of a “broad market”. Is Growth vs. Value the same for all pieces of the market? What have been the ripple effects of a weak dollar? Is “insider” selling something to concern yourself about?

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the gap down in the S&P 500 on Monday, the increase in volatility, election year seasonality, and the recent move in the Nikkei. 

In this week's episode, David rides solo and provides an important update after seeing the start of August off to its worst start since 2002. With plenty of outside uncertainty (assassination attempts, Presidents removing themselves from consideration, Crowdstrike server outages, Venezuela uprising) it is important to focus on price. In this episode, David highlights the current market environment including important market levels to pay attention to.

In this week's episode David and Ian discuss recent performance of the major indices, the notable 2% down day witnessed this week, emerging sectors and industries like financials, the presidential election and seasonality, and international equities. 

In this week's episode, David and Kevin discuss the origin of Fish in Barrel, the once in 1.3 Million year event that took place this week, the efficiency of markets, and the significance of this week on the rest of the year.

In this week's episode, Ian and Kevin discuss the continued dominance of mega caps, the continued non-relevance of small caps, consolidations in industrials, financials, and healthcare, recent performance in commodities, and Bitcoin breaking down. 

In this week's episode, Ian and Kevin discuss breadth and the continued thin nature of this market. They also touch on sector relative strength, metals and miners, the Yen, and the U.S. Dollar. 

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the continued strength from Tech and Semis, the potential breadth flush, and weakness overseas.

In this week's episode, Ian and Kevin discuss the continued dominance from large cap tech names like AAPL and MSFT, while discussing the relative underperformance from the rest of the sectors. They also cover the recent performance of international areas, how bonds are starting to show signs of life, the US Dollar, and Japanese Yen. 

 In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the continued opportunity cost of owning Small Caps, lack of risk parity in Treasuries, the trade weighted dollar, credit spreads, sector analysis, and market breadth deterioration.  

In this week's episode, David and Kevin discuss Nvidia earnings and stock split announcement, other recent stock splits, Dow Theory and divergences, semiconductor seasonality, recent market performance, and the holiday weekend. 

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the solid rebound in equities and metals, including Gold and Copper. Interest rates find likely support for a move higher. What is a ‘weight of the evidence' approach? And a potential summer return for Tech and Mega Caps.

In this week's episode, David and Ian discuss the volatile week in stocks, what's holding up underneath the surface, and why relying on headline data for market moves may not be the best choice.