13 years ago yesterday, Lehman Brothers fell into bankruptcy. Today, the world is watching China Evergrande collapse in a debt spiral. The overly indebted property developer told China's major banks that it won't be able to pay loan interest due Sept. 20. The company has been swamped with protests from individuals who invested in its...
Mid-week market update: As the S&P 500 revisits the area around its 50 dma, will the weakness persist or will it be halted? The index has found good support at the 50 dma all of this year. Equally constructive is the bull flag pattern being traced out by the S&P 500, though the index hasn't...
Preface: Explaining our market timing models We maintain several market timing models, each with differing time horizons. The "Ultimate Market Timing Model" is a long-term market timing model based on the research outlined in our post, Building the ultimate market timing model. This model tends to generate only a handful of signals each decade. The Trend...
Recently, a number of major investment banks have published warnings for the US stock market. The strategists at BoA, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley have issued either bearish or cautionary outlooks. On the other hand, Ryan Detrick at LPL Financial documented the effects of strong price momentum on stock prices. History...
Mid-week market update: There have been two breakouts that may be of significance. The first is an upside breakout of the SPY/TLT ratio. The ratio is pulling back to test its breakout. The SPY/IEF already staged a convincing breakout in late June. The second and more obvious breakout is an upside breakout by...
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