Wealth Creation Through Natural Resources
Gold has outperformed stocks (S&P 500) during 2015: While Treasury bonds (+3.15%) have easily trumped stocks (-5.19%), precious metals, and commodities (CRB -15.02%) during 2015 it is notable that gold (-4.39%) has actually outperformed stocks during a year in … Continued
A great deal transpired across markets last week and after sifting through a few dozen charts this morning it’s clear that a major transition may be underway. My friend J.C. Parets (@allstarcharts) has been bullish on the USD/CAD currency pair … Continued
This is a fascinating chart showing a large spike in short interest in S&P 500 stocks during the last couple of months: Short interest (number of total shares sold short) had been in a relatively tight range for the … Continued
US equities as represented by the S&P 500 have broken major long term uptrend lines. However, thus far the index is holding above key support near the SPX 1820 level: SPX (Weekly) As bearish sentiment mounts and the technical backdrop … Continued
The S&P 500 exchange-traded fund SPY printed another ‘doji’ candlestick today. However, today’s doji was quite different from yesterday’s in terms of both context and direction: Today’s break lower from the bearish flag targets a move down to at … Continued
Something unusual happened today in the S&P 500 exchange-traded fund SPY; a perfect doji candlestick: SPY opened at 196.44 and closed at 196.44 while traversing a nearly 2 1/2 point range during the session. There are a few notable … Continued
The Federal Reserve did not hike interest rates today – here are 5 key takeaways from the announcement: The following excerpt from the first paragraph of the Fed statement is a clear signal that China is very much on the … Continued
The yield on the 30-year Treasury Bond has rallied more than 35 basis points since late-August: However, there is good reason to believe there isn’t much risk of more upside in bond yields regardless of what the Federal Reserve … Continued
If we could only look at one chart it would have to be the following one: US Dollar Index (Weekly) After peaking in March the US Dollar Index has spent the last 6 months consolidating between roughly 93 … Continued
This is a wonderful little chart courtesy of Charlie Bilello, CMT: Investors Intelligence bulls are at the lowest percentage since December 2008. The knee-jerk reaction from this extreme investor pessimism is that it must be a contrarian signal … Continued