Market Analysis 
The Final Wave
This week I had an opportunity to speak with Brian Sullivan on CNBC’s Trading Nation (see also Media) and discuss a couple of charts. In the interview I mentioned that from our perspective we are in the final wave of this bull market: “We’re coming from a point of view that we’re in this kind of final wave… Read More ›
Chained to the Rhythm
Are we crazy? Living our lives through a lens Trapped in our white picket fence Like ornaments So comfortable, we’re living in a bubble, bubble So comfortable, we cannot see the trouble, trouble well, just going by the fossil record we all know how this ends.. 🔥😁$ES pic.twitter.com/PjO9LLU5TK — Sven Henrich (@NorthmanTrader) March 16, 2017… Read More ›
Disconnects
Below is a video outlining some key technical disconnects we’re observing in this market at this time. As retail money is flowing in long in the current market the charts outlined in the segment below may be of interest to anyone whether bullish or bearish. To view the video/chart in larger screen please click on “youtube” at… Read More ›
The Coming Bear Market
The bears are dead. Long live the bears. And that, in a nutshell, describes every bubble and emerging bear market there ever was. There is no doubt that the recent market environment has been unrelenting in terms of its unidirectional focus. Yet it is precisely the very market environment bears wanted: Exuberant markets, markets highly stretched above historic… Read More ›
2017 Market Outlook
Welcome to 2017. According to Wall Street it will be a fairly straightforward affair of a continued bull market with little corrective risk along the way. They may be correct of course as artificial liquidity by global central banks continues to flow at record levels and the incoming Trump administration has promised more free money… Read More ›
2016 Market Review: Party Hardy
In the era of fake news and artificial liquidity why even bother writing an epitaph on what could be described as one of the oddest years in recent memory? Precisely because dialectic truth appears sorely missing in the public narrative, but such is the nature of bubbles. In fact, it was the lessons of 2007 when… Read More ›
Caution: Protection Required
Negativity has been replaced by positivity, any sense of caution has been thrown to the wind, bullishness is pervasive and bears look like idiots. In short: All the conditions one wants to see if one is interested in a market fade or at least in getting some protection. On December 4 I suggested new highs on markets were a… Read More ›
Fake Out
Right at the time when markets were making new highs recently I mused whether this rally was based on hot air. I wanted to follow-up on this assessment in light of the recent small pullback and provide an update on some of the technical signals. The bottom line: The technical evidence appears to build on the “hot… Read More ›
