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Charting My Interruption (CMI): “The Bulls Are Baaaaack!!!” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “The Bulls Are Baaaaack!!!”

On Thursday, the spread between the percent bullish and percent bearish respondents in the weekly AAII Investor Sentiment...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “MEGA ‘Caps’…Making Equities Great Again!!” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “MEGA ‘Caps’…Making Equities Great Again!!”

The MEGA "Caps" are Making Equities Great Again!!! The 10 largest companies have been making headlines of late, as they have...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “MAANAGeMeNT vs Employees…the tension grows.” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “MAANAGeMeNT vs Employees…the tension grows.”

As the 9 constituents of our MAANAGeMeNT Index* (Figure 1, top panel) track ever higher in their sky-scraping office tower...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “What if interest rates turn higher?” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “What if interest rates turn higher?”

With the US 10 year yield having broken a 40 year downtrend, the idea that we have transitioned to a new interest rate...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Which is it? Overbought or Oversold?” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Which is it? Overbought or Oversold?”

When it is clear that the market is going nowhere, it is best to "do the opposite" of what the market has most recently...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Value is outperforming, but not really.” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Value is outperforming, but not really.”

It is widely agreed that value stocks have been outperforming growth stocks since the bear market started in January 2022...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Mind Over Markets–the Importance of Proper Mindset” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Mind Over Markets–the Importance of Proper Mindset”

At the CMT Association's 2023 Annual Symposium in New York last week, I had the incredible opportunity to interview...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Lullaby on Wall Street” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Lullaby on Wall Street”

Its been 15 months since the S&P has hit a 12 month high. While this is clearly not good for the bulls, such lack of...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Indices at Resistance & Diverging…Tactically Cautious” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Indices at Resistance & Diverging…Tactically Cautious”

The recent weakness in the three major S&P averages--500 large cap, 400 mid cap, and 600 small cap--was adequate enough...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Bulls Need Banks to Stabilize” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Bulls Need Banks to Stabilize”

As I write this, I am sitting in an AirBnB in Florence Italy, home of one of the, if not the, greatest banking dynasties in...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Undeniably resilient on the surface, despite persistent turmoil beneath.” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Undeniably resilient on the surface, despite persistent turmoil beneath.”

The market has absorbed some pretty noteworthy events since the middle of last year, but you wouldn't know it by looking at...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Underwater on a bet I hope to lose” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Underwater on a bet I hope to lose”

Suppose I was asked the following question: "Hey, Dave. If the 2nd largest bank failure in US history were to happen this...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Win the crowd, and you’ll win your freedom.” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Win the crowd, and you’ll win your freedom.”

I can't recall who said it to me first...was it Walter Deemer, Ralph Acampora, Mark Dibble? But as the saying goes, "No...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Fundamental Data vs Fundamental Opinions” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Fundamental Data vs Fundamental Opinions”

On the Philosophy tab of our website (here), there is a full discussion about the value of momentum and trend following...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Dow Theory Quietly Getting Better” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Dow Theory Quietly Getting Better”

Dow Theory, as first promulgated by Charles Dow, and later further articulated by Robert Rhea, rather sensibly suggests that...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Let Your Process Be Your Guide, Not Your Emotions” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Let Your Process Be Your Guide, Not Your Emotions”

Bear markets can be nasty because the dominant price trend is down (reflecting the market's informed view of the poor...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “But what about all this overhead resistance?” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “But what about all this overhead resistance?”

With our models continuing to label the rally since October as a new bull market, I am fielding a lot of push back from...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “The Stallone Momentum Series” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “The Stallone Momentum Series”

You know all those Stallone movies that turned out way too many sequels? Rocky? Rambo? Expendables? Escape Plan? Well...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Momo Said” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Momo Said”

Although there are many investment strategies that are profitable over time, no investment strategy works all the time....

Charting My Interruption (CMI): A “Crash” We Can All Root For Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): A “Crash” We Can All Root For

Charting My Interruption (CMI): A "Crash" We Can All Root For The "MOTR" acronym in my firm name is pronounced "Motor", and...

Charting My Interruption (CMI) – Sum of the Parts is Worth More Than the Whole Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI) – Sum of the Parts is Worth More Than the Whole

Sum of the Parts is Worth More Than the Whole With our longer-term Risk Gauges finally showing improvement beginning in...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): Silvergate – Swagger, Stagger, then Dagger Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): Silvergate – Swagger, Stagger, then Dagger

Silvergate - Swagger, Stagger, then Dagger As I painstakingly tried to point out in my prior CMI post titled "You just need...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): Charts to Watch in 2023 Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): Charts to Watch in 2023

Charts to Watch in 2023 In our first Weekly MOTR Report for 2023, we will be identifying a series of charts that should...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): The Naughtier, the Better! Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): The Naughtier, the Better!

The Naughtier, the Better! Most investors are aware that the market tends to experience a strong bounce between Christmas...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): No Candy!! Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): No Candy!!

Long before the last two fed hiking cycles ended, the equity market was behaving like a two-year-old toddler,...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “You just need FTX!!” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “You just need FTX!!”

Hopping on my soapbox in this month's Monthly MOTR Check Up Video Here are a couple slides from the...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): Charged Up About TSLA Top Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): Charged Up About TSLA Top

The Tesla (TSLA) Top Everyone is all Charged up About November 29, 2022 -- This top in Tesla is justifiably making the...

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Dow Theory” Read More

Charting My Interruption (CMI): “Dow Theory”

Dow Theory Bearish Divergence Noteworthy November 16, 2022—The Dow Theory has done a remarkably good job guiding us in...

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