In this video, after a rundown of the general markets and sectors, Tony brings you the latest options trade ideas. These include a number of bullish and bearish ideas, including DIS, AAPL, META, BA, LULU, and many more. This video premiered on December 23, 2024. ...
When quickly glancing at the StockCharts Technical Rank (SCTR) Reports Dashboard panel, one stock that popped up on Monday, albiet briefly, was Meta Platforms, Inc. (META). The stock has a year-to-date performance of over 70% according to the StockCharts Symbol Summary page and, after its recent pullback, the stock could be one to consider adding to your portfolio. You can ...
In today’s free DecisionPoint Trading Room Carl discusses volume spikes and how we have to analyze big volume spikes carefully to determine whether they express a confirmation of a move or whether they are a special case and do not really provide insight. Carl goes over the signal tables and notes there are quite a few signals getting ready to ...
I had no idea the Fed could be such expert wafflers. But, as each month passes, it’s becoming clearer. The overall stock market trend, despite all the back-and-forth, yo-yo Fed decisions over the past 6 months, remains to the upside. Need proof? Check out this weekly S&P 500 chart for the past year: Now, if you weren’t aware of any ...
After staying in the green following a sharp rebound the week before this one, the markets finally succumbed to selling pressure after failing to cross above crucial resistance levels. The Nifty stayed under strong selling pressure over the past five sessions and violated key support levels on the daily charts. The range remained wider on the anticipated lines; the Nifty ...
This week saw the fabled Hindenburg Omen generate its first major sell signal in three years, suggesting the endless bull market of 2024 may soon indeed be ending. Why is this indicator so widely followed, and what does this confirmed signal tell us about market conditions going into Q1? First, let’s break down the conditions that led to this rare but powerful ...
A smart investor listens to the stock market and this week’s stock market action was a perfect example of why this is important. It was a roller-coaster week in the stock markets leading many investors to quickly sell holdings when there was a big selloff and scramble to go long again on Friday when the broader stock market indexes turned ...
Semiconductors are at a crossroads, with innovation fueling growth and tariffs threatening profits. How might you navigate this potentially volatile landscape and identify opportunities without getting burned? In 2025, analysts predict AI will drive explosive demand in the semiconductor industry, fueling innovation and revenue growth. At the same time, this optimism is tempered by the new administration’s tariff policies, which ...
Nearly all of our charts currently show deeply oversold conditions. While this is usually a good thing, in a market downturn, it isn’t necessarily your friend. As you can guess, we believe that Wednesday’s big decline was the beginning of something more serious. But the question is, “what about oversold conditions?” One of the Bear Market Rules that we have ...
SPY and QQQ remain in long-term uptrends, but three big negatives are currently hanging over the stock market. Two negatives are tied to important cyclical groups and the third is reminiscent of summer 2022. The semiconductor business is cyclical and the Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) is one of the weakest industry group ETFs. Housing is an important part of the domestic economy ...