NFTRH+ Trade Setup; Apple (AAPL)

AAPL is down 2.6% today, apparently with some pre-earnings jitters going on.  This happened in AMZN last week as well.  I know, because I was nonplussed while observing it. Understand…

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NFTRH+; Applied Materials (AMAT)

These bottom feeder plays can be difficult because they do not have established trends like momentum plays.  Unfortunately, a momo is not who I am.  A bottom feeder is who…

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NFTRH+; Boston Scientific

I am seeing more and more constructive charts show up on individual names.  That could be another manifestation of what we had noted about the big sentiment clean out this…

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NFTRH+; Uranium Sector

For all you Uranium enthusiasts out there... Assuming that USD has gone bearish (let's watch for a weekly close below the Sept. low) the commodity complex gets interesting.  We have…

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NFTRH+; Royal Gold

RGLD has under performed its peers and the gold miners since August.  Going strictly by the charts and assuming that any fundamental changes within the company's structure have not compromised…

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NFTRH+; Commodities

The Character of the commodity complex is improving.  Each week NFTRH has maintained the 'bear market' stance, and that is of course still the case.  But there was the pesky…

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NFTRH+; Bank Sector

With interest rates bouncing across the curve (beyond the Fed-controlled T Bill yield) per the projection of a previous NFTRH+ update (with a lag), I took a look at the logical beneficiary of rising yields, the Bank sector.

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NFTRH+; SIMO

We have been watching the Semiconductor index re-take some of its past leadership in the broad US market.  Hence, some favored Semi stocks are back on radar, for the short-term…

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NFTRH+; Long-term Yields & Associated Trades

As CPI will attest, consumer prices are certainly not suffering at the hands of the pervasive global deflationary environment.  Housing, Healthcare and other services are not easily going to give back embedded price gains.  In NFTRH 356 I tried to express this in an admittedly muddled Indicators segment.

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Charting Global Bears & Short Setups

Below are some pictures of developing bear markets using weekly charts of iShares ETF’s.  Some items are getting hit with the China stick, others with the Commodities stick and others with both. Regardless, they are getting hit with an ugly stick.

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