Tue September 19, 2023

Consumer Staples remains under pressure, & worse than Discretionary

US EQUITY INDICES AND TREASURY YIELDS REMAIN QUITE CHOPPY, BUT THE WEAKNESS COINCIDING WITH YIELDS PUSHING UP STILL LOOKS TO EXTEND THIS WEEK WHICH IS ONE OF THE MORE SEASONALLY...

Thu July 20, 2023

Defensives finally strengthening as key Cycle date nears

MARKETS HAVE ENTERED A WINDOW FOR POTENTIAL SHORT-TERM TREND CHANGE, BUT DO NOT EXPECT MUCH SELLING UNTIL AUGUST.  NEAR-TERM, AN SPX-4500-4600 RANGE MIGHT HOLD INTO LAST COUPLE DAYS OF JULY...

Wed February 22, 2023

February 2023 Upticks

NOTE: THIS UPTICKS REPORT WILL BE IN REPLACE OF MY DAILY TECHNICAL STRATEGY PIECE TODAY (2/22/2023). UPDATE US Equity markets continue to be caught in a tug-of-war between bulls and...

Tue January 17, 2023

Upticks - January 2023

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! UPDATE 2023 has gotten underway with a far more robust rally than many were expecting to kick off the new year.  Some of this has...

Wed November 9, 2022

Upticks - November 2022

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Mon July 11, 2022

What Our Clients Are Talking About Behind The Scenes

FLASH COMMENTS: Last week, I did my deep dive into my single stock quantitative selection model that I call ERM and was looking quite closely at the earnings revisions of...

Mon June 13, 2022

What Our Clients Are Talking About Behind The Scenes

At the start of last week, I released my updated sector recommendations (Sectors Update) and Whispers (Previous Whispers) where I continued to suggest that my work had not been supporting...

Fri June 10, 2022

Markets Sell-Off on Hot Inflation, Bad Consumer Sentiment

Good Evening: Markets were thrashed on Friday by a white-hot CPI print and also the lowest level for the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment survey in the entire history of...

Fri June 10, 2022

My Earnings Work Continues To Show Deterioration, CPI Puts Water on Dovish Fed Pivot

The market was hit with two body blows today, the first was the hotter than expected CPI Print which came in at 8.6% on expectations of 8.3%. The second blow...

Thu April 14, 2022

Consumer Staples on the verge of more outperformance

Thursday’s decline leaves prices largely unchanged from this past Monday’s close, three days ago.  Thus, downtrends have not been arguably erased, even over the near-termSector performance shows Consumer Staples starting...

Mon November 15, 2021

Defensives outperform as Yields, USD push higher ahead of Infrastructure Bill signing

Technical Strategy Video: https://vimeo. com/646229653/aaf1102f42 Trends, momentum remain bullish, and despite Monday’s minor dip, additional strength looks likely back to new highs for $SPX, $NDX, $DJIATreasury yields and US...