It is said that history doesn’t repeat itself, but rhymes, but investors need to be careful about what history they study. As I prepare for retirement at the end of March, I want to impress upon readers the importance of looking under the hood of past quantitative history studies in order to understand underlying...
Mid-week market update: The S&P 500 ETF (SPY) traded out a possible reversal yesterday (Tuesday) when it opened down, fell, and recovered to close higher on the day. The move was accompanied by a positive divergence on the 5-day RSI and on above average volume. These are all signs of selling exhaustion and a capitulation...
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...
Citrini Research recently published a controversial report that rhetorically asked, “What if our AI bullishness continues to be right...and what if that’s actually bearish?” Even though the authors qualified the report as “a scenario, not a prediction”, it ignited much debate among investors. As the work is labeled as speculative fiction, I am not...
Mid-week market update: The major U.S. averages have been range bound for weeks. The only exception is the equal-weighted S&P 500, which has been in a steady uptrend but it has yet to break out through key resistance (dotted line). The market is coiling for a move. As investors wait for the NVIDIA earnings...
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...
Now that the Magnificent Seven has definitively weakened and violated a key support level, the next question is whether the decline can be halted at the 200 dma. More ominously, the relative performance of these stocks is forming an inverted saucer top after violating a relative support level (bottom panel). It’s time to...
Special Announcement: Humble Student of the Markets will cease publishing a year from now, on March 31, 2026. (This is being published on March 31, 2025 and it is not an April Fools joke). Here's some history. I began writing Humble Student of the Markets in 2007. I had left Merrill Lynch to begin...
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...
Markets were rattled by policy under Trump 1.0 by his unpredictable and chaotic nature. Trump 2.0 promises to be more of the same. Other than the transactional nature of Trump’s deal making, what’s his ultimate end game? It’s to undo the effects of globalization. The political backdrop can be explained by Branko Milanovic’s famous...
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