Tue March 26

Healthcare likely underperforms into late April; Lowering to Neutral

I CONTINUE TO SEE THE US STOCK MARKET AS BEING ATTRACTIVE, TECHNICALLY SPEAKING, AND DO NOT FEEL SUFFICIENT RISK IS THERE TO WARRANT A SELLOFF AT THIS TIME. WHILE PRICE...

Wed November 8, 2023

Airlines look attractive as a counter-trend tactical long

SPX AND QQQ HAVE SURGED ON ABOVE-AVERAGE BREADTH AND HAVE CARVED OUT IMPULSIVE RALLIES OVER THE PAST WEEK.  THIS IS LIKELY A POSITIVE FOR GAINS TO NEAR EARLY OCTOBER HIGHS...

Wed September 6, 2023

Many Airlines look to be bottoming technically by next week

US EQUITY INDICES HAVE NOW WEAKENED FOR THE THIRD STRAIGHT SESSION AS TREASURY YIELDS HAVE PRESSED HIGHER;  AT PRESENT, YIELDS ARE NEARING A “DO-OR-DIE” AREA OF RESISTANCE, WHILE STOCKS ARE...

Mon June 26, 2023

Transport Avg breaking out to highest in nearly three months

TREND BULLISH - MINOR PULLBACK HAS NOT DONE MUCH DAMAGE DESPITE BEING DOWN 5 OF THE LAST 6 DAYS.  MEANINGFUL SUPPORT SHOULD MATERIALIZE BETWEEN 4275-4320 S&P has now declined 5...

Fri June 16, 2023

June FOMC is a reminder key story arc is "inflation war" not hard landing. 10 "fresh money" ideas to leverage expanding market breadth.

NEW: SECTION (ABOVE) ADDED IDENTIFYING KEY RECOMMENDATIONS AND SUPER GRANNIES _We publish on a 3-day a week schedule:_ _SKIP MONDAY _ <-- Market Holiday SKIP TUESDAY Wednesday SKIP THURSDAY Friday...

Thu June 8, 2023

DJ Transportation Avg. & NYSE AD line have also broken out

TREND BULLISH - EXPECT RALLY UP TO SPX 4325 BEFORE POSSIBLE MINOR STALLOUT.  PULLBACKS SHOULD BE BUYABLE WHEN THEY OCCUR FOR ADDITIONAL STRENGTH IN JUNE. A late day rally let...

Tue February 15, 2022

Travel & Leisure continues to make headway

Snapback bounce encouraging, but has more work to do, to have confidence of markets beginning a larger rallyTravel & Leisure stocks have now been rising for four straight weeks and...

Fri April 16, 2021

COVID-19 UPDATE: Israel daily cases (per 1mm) now 26 vs 952 (Jan). ND and SD could see "obliteration" by June. Oil prices key to direction of Epicenter trade...

The lag between penetration of vaccines and cases falling is due to a few factors including the fact that vaccines take time to become effective.  And the broader fact, a...

Wed April 14, 2021

COVID-19 UPDATE: Multiple reasons J&J vaccine "pause" not a recovery setback. Epicenter stocks significantly underperformed since mid-March, but EPS revisions = good and Technicals, while damaged, are still positive

3 Deletions: $PBCT, $NVT, $VNO 13 Additions: $AZO, $HOG, $GRMN, $MGM, $WH, $GPS, $LB, $VIRT, $AGCO, $OC, $UBER. $EXP, $NUE 35 "POWER TRIFECTA" STOCKS IDEAS: Consumer Discretionary: $AZO, $HOG, $GRMN,...

Tue April 13, 2021

COVID-19 UPDATE: Global cases within 8% of all-time highs, even as USA down 80%. Energy down 8 of the last 10 days, in past 20 years >8 of last 10 days point to strong 3M gains

But as the global case count below shows, COVID-19 is still spreading wildly and prolifically across the World.  In fact, the 7-day avg cases of 670,000 (and rising rapidly) is...

Mon April 12, 2021

COVID-19 UPDATE: Michigan COVID-19 hospitalizations could surge to new highs in coming weeks. S&P 500 gains YTD explained by +6.4% revisions to 2021 EPS by Street

Is there a common thread to explain this? I am not entirely clear. And of these states, MI seems to be experiencing the worst of the surges. Gov Whitmer has...

Fri April 9, 2021

Epicenter – Stocks with Uncommon Value During Uncommon Times

This list was published in the FIRST WORD dated April 9, 2020. We’ve republished it here in order to highlight it for our valued subscribers. _STRATEGY: UPDATING EPICENTER TRIFECTA LIST  – 24...