Chris Ciovacco


Bulls Maintain Conviction Edge Over Bears

Wage Inflation “Remained Subdued” Why does the stock market care about wages? If our paychecks get bigger, we have more money to spend.

How Does 2014 Compare To 1987 And 2007?

ISM Provides A Reference Point In 2007 and 2008, the average reading of the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) manufacturing purchasing managers index …

Hard To Say This Is Bearish

Strongest Six Months In A Decade It is difficult to imagine a new bear market starting when the economy is growing and the …

Breadth Divergence: Are The Bulls Missing This?

Negative/Bearish Divergence Yesterday, we covered an analysis about a potentially bullish signal in market breadth. A common form of feedback was: What about the …

Market Breadth Is Trying To Tell Us Something About Risk

Volume Speaks To Conviction Since every stock trade has a buyer and a seller, stocks do not rise when there are more buyers …

Odds Of Stock Rally Pushing Higher

ECB Ready To Act In a familiar theme of words and little in the way of action, the head of the European Central …

Is This Lagging Sector Ready To Lead?

Fundamental And Technical Alignment? From a probability perspective, the best investment ideas tend to be those with improving fundamentals and improving technicals (charts).

Is This Lagging Sector Ready To Lead?

  Fundamental And Technical Alignment? From a probability perspective, the best investment ideas tend to be those with improving fundamentals and improving technicals …

Defensive Leadership: A Showstopper For Bull Market?

Consumer Discretionary Underperforming The chart below shows the performance of consumer discretionary stocks (NYSEARCA:XLY) relative to consumer staples (NYSEARCA:XLP). For most of 2013, …

2 Reasons The Fed Will Be Slow To Raise Rates

What does history tell us about this interest rate cycle? Why do central bankers fear deflation?

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