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After a broad market review, Mary Ellen shares strategies for trading pull backs and breakouts in stocks. Highlights include a deep dive into ARK’s Innovation ETFs and their holdings, locating market strength in the process. Tune in for valuable insights and tips to help you make informed investment decisions! This video originally premiered December 6, 2024. You can watch it on our dedicated page for Mary Ellen on StockCharts TV. New videos from Mary Ellen premiere weekly on...

The first trading week in December started on a positive note, with the S&P 500 ($SPX) and Nasdaq Composite ($COMPQ) notching new all-time highs, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU) pulled back slightly. Despite the small upmoves for most days, it wasn’t a quiet week. Surprisingly, a flood of news from around the world didn’t impact equity performance much. The broader equity indexes continued their bullish trends despite South Korea briefly going under martial...

“The market goes up the escalator and down the elevator.” This is a quote that one of my mentors, Ralph Acampora, shared with me when I visited him years ago at his farm in Minnesota. This market truism is based on the fact that volatility tends to remain low in bull market phases, and volatility tends to spike higher during bear phases. Why does this tend to happen? Well, when everything is going well, and investors are...

Growth vs Value Rotation, the pendulum swings again Relative Rotation Graphs (RRG) are not only good for visualizing sector rotation, but they are also valuable tools for visualizing other market dynamics. For example, the relationships between Growth and Value stocks or Large-cap vs. mid- and Small-cap stocks and the combination of these two breakdowns of the market. The pure growth-value rotation, as shown in the RRG above, RRG tells an interesting story. Value had its...

Industrials (XLI) benefited greatly from the “Trump Trade”, but fell back to digest the gap up rally. It rallied again but failed after overcoming overhead resistance at the prior November top. Now it is pulling back once again and that has formed a bearish double top formation. The bearish double top’s minimum downside target would bring price down to the next level of support around 132.00. To add insult to injury, on Thursday it saw...

Could we see a short-term shift towards defensive sectors? Real estate? Utilities? I haven’t uttered these words in awhile. And why should I as our major indices have forged into new all-time record high territory? Well, I’m only talking about very near-term, maybe the next 1-3 weeks? I wouldn’t change a thing as a long-term investor, I’d simply stay the course with more aggressive areas. But here are a few things that short-term traders might...

The secret sauce of 1-2-3 investing is quite simple: don’t skip Step 2. Far too many investors who’ve succeeded in creating wealth are anxious to rush forward with “all gas, no brakes” to embrace the excitement of Step 3 – Asset Growth. Only in retrospect do they so often discover the hard way that the essential connective tissue between asset creation and asset growth is the imperative prerequisite of asset protection (see our book Tensile Trading, Chapter...

My recent discussions on the Market Misbehavior podcast have often included some comments on the interest rate environment, particularly the shape of the yield curve.  We’ve had an inverted yield curve since late 2022, and so the yield curve taking on a more normal shape could mean a huge tailwind to certain sectors and groups.   When the Yield Curve is No Longer Inverted Here we’re showing the Ten Year Treasury Yield along with two ways...

The broader stock market indexes sold off slightly ahead of the November Non-Farm Payrolls data, which will be released Friday morning. Depending on which way the data goes, the market could sell off further or continue its bullish ride. If the market sells off, which stocks are flashing buy signals? To help me identify stocks to watch, I ran my StockCharts Technical Rank (SCTR) scan to identify which stocks were gaining technical strength. My SCTR scan...

As part of your daily trading routine, you likely start the day by checking the news and stock prices to identify potential market opportunities. However, as you already know, news and price performance can only give you a snapshot context—a starting point for a much more thorough analysis. Financial media often highlights the price performance of notable stocks, but understanding its significance is another matter. A single price snapshot doesn’t uncover trading opportunities, but analyzing...