Stocks

When the market is down, you can see which stocks Wall Street may be pumping money into. So on a Monday morning when the markets are down, this allows you to spot stocks that are bucking the intraday trend. If you go to your Predefined Scans under Bullish Technical Indicators, you can see which stocks are experiencing sizable inflows. Let’s zero in on the Moved Above Upper Bollinger Band list. FIGURE 1. PREDEFINED SCAN. We’ll...

How do you track movements of all the S&P 500 stocks on any given trading day? In this video, Dave will show you how he uses the StockCharts MarketCarpet to evaluate broad equity market conditions, assess the changes in the mega-cap stocks which dominate the benchmarks, and identify potential outliers that could serve as investment candidates. Enjoy this mini-masterclass on how to use a powerful heat map to better follow the technical analysis trends! This...

Carl explores which index is best…the SP600 (IJR) or Russell 2000 (IWM). He makes a comparison over time and reveals which tends to be the better performer. Which one should you use to analyze what is happening in small-caps? Carl gives us his market outlook as prices pullback today. Bitcoin is looking particularly bullish and Gold continues to impress. He then goes through all of the Magnificent Seven stocks in the short and intermediate terms....

Good morning and welcome to this week’s Flight Path. Equities saw the “Go” trend continue this week as the indicator painted strong blue bars the entire week. Treasury bond prices saw the “NoGo” trend continue with a week of strong purple bars. U.S. commodities saw the “Go” trend continue this wek and at the end of the week we saw a new strong blue bar. GoNoGo Trend shows that trend in the U.S. dollar continued to be...

The “Magnificent 7”, comprised of Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), NVIDIA (NVDA), Meta Platforms (META), Amazon.com (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOGL), and Tesla (TSLA) have carried the S&P 500 during this secular bull market – since its breakout in April 2013 above its 2000 and 2007 highs. Here’s a weekly chart of the S&P 500 during this secular bull market, with 7 price panels below, each highlighting the relative strength of one of the Mag 7 stocks: These...

The markets closed on a negative note for the third week in a row; over the past five sessions, the Nifty remained largely on a declining trajectory except for the last trading day where it saw some relief rally from the lower levels. Following a strong weekly decline of 1167 points two weeks ago, the Nifty has thereafter traded relatively in a lesser range but has by and large exhibited a weak bias. The trading...

Despite a light economic data week, the stock market continued its rally, with the S&P 500 ($SPX) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU) closing at record highs. How many times have we heard that? This is the sixth positive week for the three indexes. Strong earnings from big banks, Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. (TSM), United Airlines Holdings (UAL), and Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) injected optimistic energy into the stock market. Tech Stocks Hold Steady The tech-heavy...

In this StockCharts TV video, Mary Ellen reviews what’s driving the markets higher and how you can capitalize. Moves in TSLA, NVDA, and NFLX are highlighted. She also reviews price action greatly impacted by earnings, many driven by analyst upgrades and downgrades. This video originally premiered October 18, 2024. You can watch it on our dedicated page for Mary Ellen on StockCharts TV. New videos from Mary Ellen premiere weekly on Fridays. You can view all previously recorded episodes at...

The Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD) indicator, created by technical analyst Gerald Appel, is a technical indicator designed to confirm once a trend change has occurred.  Based on exponential moving averages, it is not built to anticipate a price reversal, but rather to identify that one has already occurred. The lesser known MACD histogram can actually provide a powerful leading indicator as to when a turning point could be just around the corner.  Today we’ll use...

In this week’s RRG video, I shared my concerns about the current market conditions. The sector rotation model and current sector rotation, as we see it on the Relative Rotation Graph for US sectors, are sending us conflicting signals. This combination continues to make me cautious about fully buying into the rally with new positions. Being Fully invested is too risky at the moment (for me). My current approach is that the risk of being...