Mon September 18

Equal-weighted SPX vs. SPX reaches lowest levels since 2020

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...

Tue July 25

Upticks - July 2023

ADDITIONS ARISTA NETWORKS ($ANET- $174.09) Source: Trading View ANET looks quite bullish technically following its quick rally which has brought this back to test highs of the last six months. ...

Thu June 1

Not Just Post-Millennials: Opportunities from the Ascent of Generation Z

We are coming up on the tail end of another graduation season, with another set of young adults going into the world – to strive and to build, to work...

Tue July 26, 2022

Discretionary looks close to bottoming out vs. Staples

The stall out and pullback in US Equities has accelerated further given $WMT’s profit warning and subsequent 8% + drop on Tuesday.  $NDX has taken the lead on this decline...

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...

Wed June 8, 2022

"Soft landing" scenario strengthening. 1980s inflation broken when "goods" inflation peaked. Consumer discounts ahead. Target confirms. Manheim Index shows Luxury + Full-sized tanking.

Investors tell us they don't want to "fight the Fed" and as long as the Fed is tight, they will not touch equities. This is intuitively sound, but here are...

Wed May 18, 2022

DJ Transportation Avg. breaks yearly support

Wednesday’s about-face looks serious and likely leads prices down to 3800 initiallyTreasury yields look to be rolling over and should continue down into JuneDJ Transportation Avg has broken down to...

Wed February 2, 2022

Rebalance Granny Shots --> +3 net: 12 additions and 9 deletions

We publish on a 4-day a week schedule: Monday Tuesday Wednesday SKIP THURSDAY Friday STRATEGY: REBALANCE GRANNY SHOTS --> +3 NET: 12 ADDITIONS AND 9 DELETIONS _2.9% OF INCOMING OLYMPIC...

Fri January 14, 2022

Markets Have Another Choppy Week and Rotation Continues, Financials Have Rough Friday After Big Bank Earnings

The S&P 500 closed at 4,662.85 down from 4677.03 . The VIX settled at $19.19  and didn’t get too far above $20 this week.Powell’s testimony assuaged markets somewhat, but they...

Fri January 14, 2022

Omicron turning COVID into flu (rest of year) per Bill Gates. Bond market priced in a March hike, so stocks need to get used to this

I WILL BE ON VACATION FROM 1/17 TO 1/25, A LATE CHRISTMAS VACATIONWE WILL STILL PUBLISH OUR COVID-19 DAILY COMMENTARY (THANKS TIRELESS KEN)MARKET COMMENTARY WILL RESUME 1/26 STRATEGY: OMICRON TURNING...

Tue October 26, 2021

Delta-plus is a non-issue in USA, so far... Energy + Bitcoin most logical YE strategies

We publish on a 4-day a week schedule: Monday Tuesday Wednesday SKIP THURSDAY Friday STRATEGY: DELTA-PLUS IS A NON-ISSUE IN USA, SO FAR… ENERGY + BITCOIN MOST LOGICAL YE STRATEGIES...

Mon October 25, 2021

3 anecdotal signs COVID-19 might be closer to "endemic" than consensus believes = positive bias. Re-balance Granny Shots --> +13 adds, -9 deletes. YTD outperforms +404bp

The 7D avg in cases is down to 69,331 and as we noted last week, this is looking to be on track for 50,000 by the end of the month. ...