Weekly MOTR Report (WMR): “In investing, we choose our own pain, whether we know it or not”
A tactical trend following investor is focused on sidestepping bear markets using defensive strategies as a way to deliver, either for oneself,
Weekly MOTR Report (WMR): “Relative strength of cyclicals a good sign, but too early to get excited”
Relative strength amongst cyclicals has been particularly strong recently, despite the S&P 500 retesting its June lows. We would file
Weekly MOTR Report (WMR): “When what you expect to happen isn’t happening, the opposite is happening”
Joel Marver, one of my first mentors in this business, had so many quips that brought crystal clarity to what
Weekly MOTR Report (WMR): “We’re in a Bear Market. Should We Have Expected Anything Else?”
Managing realistic expectations, guided by experience and data, is a critical step towards success in investing. Properly anticipating how your
Weekly MOTR Report (WMR): “Great Markets Pull You In, While You Force Yourself Into Bad Markets”
F. Scott Fitzgerald once said that “the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas
Weekly MOTR Report (WMR): “Another Week Gone By, Another Billions of Datapoints Processed”
Even the most attentive fundamental investor, backed by a team of MBA analysts, consultants, and data scientists, can’t possibly know
Weekly MOTR Report (WMR): “Bears Have Parried the Attack from the Bulls, Now its Their Turn”
Practically speaking, the market can do only one of three things in any given timeframe: it can go up, it
Weekly MOTR Report (WMR): “Bear Rally or New Bull? Short-term Gains Being Tested”
For an explicit reason, I am a process driven, trend following, momentum investor who worships at the altar of the
Weekly MOTR Report (WMR): “The Tension between the Bulls & Bears is Palpable”
Last week, we discussed the strong short-term improvement in the market’s underlying breadth, a critical development in our “Check List
Weekly MOTR Report (WMR): “Onus is on the Bears Now”
Despite the chorus growing larger of those singing the tune “we are in recession!”, the S&P hurdled past key downtrend
Weekly MOTR Report (WMR): “Its Not as Bad as it Looks”
The S&P paused in its journey higher last week. Since its mid-June plunge, it has closed back above its 50
Weekly MOTR Report (WMR): “Crisis Averted?”
Although it took an uncomfortably long time to do so, the market has finally begun to display bottoming-like characteristics these