Don’t try to (re) build Rome in a day

We are humans. Well, it's the internet so I should amend that. Most of us are humans. We humans have eyes, ears and a brain attached to them. We process…

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vs. SPY

An inter-market view of a few sectors and markets... vs. SPY. What is important here is not to look at these charts like a TA would look at a nominal…

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Gold Stocks: Peak Bleak?

Peak Oil? That was an obvious and widespread promotion while it was in play and did not fool anyone who bothered to step aside from the herd that ran with…

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SPX big picture monthly view

Here is how we have been viewing the situation in the S&P 500. For months now (since October and/or November when SPX hopped the Bull Turnstile) and as SPX climbed…

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Turned Off

A couple weeks ago during the volatility my Fidelity accounts not only got turned off, they disappeared all together. Today? We start with Stockcharts.com seizing up as apparently their little…

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NFTRH; Then (Q4 2008) vs. Now

Housekeeping note: If you are at all interested in what one casino patron is seeing as events unfold - assuming I am watching the market, which is not always -…

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NFTRH; SPX is Driving the Bus

From yesterday morning's update... "So who’s driving the bus, SPX or DJIA? I don’t have that answer, but until the herds stop stampeding we would do well to respect what…

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Coronavirus Wax On/Off

Coronavirus wax on (DJIA +275), Coronavirus wax off (DJIA -204). And so it goes in sentiment-driven markets as the herds, led by the machines... thunder on. Yesterday it was all…

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Checking the US Market Leadership Chain

The leadership chain of SOX → NDX → SPX was noted to be wobbling on its front end in NFTRH 588's Market Internals segment. It had just gone to neutral…

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