Alex Cole

Alex Cole


Alex has led technical analysis and data visualization teams for over 15 years, directing both business strategy and product development of analytics tools for investment professionals. Learn More 

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GNG TV: Big Moves as Bulls See Risk-On Environment

GNG TV: Big Moves as Bulls See Risk-On Environment

In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler take a macro top-down approach to understanding what technical analysis is telling us about market moves. Starting with an Asset Map and moving through treasury rates, gold, the dollar, and the S&P 500, they...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Airlines, Casinos, & Luxury... Oh My!

GNG TV: Airlines, Casinos, & Luxury... Oh My!

In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, as the S&P 500 continues to show constructive evidence of trend reversal on longer timeframes, Alex and Tyler look to GoNoGo Charts to better understand the sector leadership and individual names that are leading equity markets. Importantly,...   READ MORE 

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Going, Going, Gone: End of Week Themes with GoNoGo Charts

Going, Going, Gone: End of Week Themes with GoNoGo Charts

As the week ends, let's use GoNoGo Charts to get sense of market moves. The chart below shows the $SPY with daily prices and the full suite of single security GoNoGo Indicators applied. Price moved higher into midweek before tumbling on Wednesday. The last bar of the week...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Enough Leadership for Bull Market After October Lows?

GNG TV: Enough Leadership for Bull Market After October Lows?

In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler discuss the difficulty equities are having establishing a new "Go" trend. They walk through the technical analysis surrounding the macro factors that will have an impact on stocks, Interest rates, the dollar, commodities. They...   READ MORE 

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Going, Going, Gone: End of Week Themes with GoNoGo Charts

Going, Going, Gone: End of Week Themes with GoNoGo Charts

As the week ends, let's use GoNoGo Charts to get a sense of market moves. The chart below shows the $SPY with daily prices and the full suite of single security GoNoGo Indicators applied. As we can see, price has rallied this week and caused GoNoGo Trend to...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Changing Tides for Risk Assets

GNG TV: Changing Tides for Risk Assets

As all of Wall Street dissects CPI data and what that might mean for the Fed's next rate hike, Alex and Tyler look through what is actually happening from a price perspective in this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show. With inflation coming in softer...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Defense is Still on the Field

GNG TV: Defense is Still on the Field

In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler examine a market that is largely consistent with the choppy downtrends and defensive characteristics of the prior year. The major difference across the asset classes is that the US Dollar index is in a NoGo and...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: US Equity "Go" Trend Wobbles

GNG TV: US Equity "Go" Trend Wobbles

In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler review markets following the recent 50-basis-point hike from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. While the relief rally in the S&P 500 has retained its "Go" trend conditions, early warning signs from GoNoGo Oscillator...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Markets Try to Rally Into End of Week

GNG TV: Markets Try to Rally Into End of Week

In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, following a heavy day earlier in the week, Alex looks at how the U.S. Equity markets seem to have found support. He walks through charts over multiple timeframes of several macro factors that impact risk assets such as...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Intermarket Forces Assist Equity Rally

GNG TV: Intermarket Forces Assist Equity Rally

In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler review cross-asset relationships from a GoNoGo Trend Perspective. NoGo trends on the daily timeframe for USD and TNX provide tailwinds for risk assets. Multiple timeframe analysis reveals that the recent rotation to "risk-on" still...   READ MORE 

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GoNoGo Special: Embracing Volatility

GoNoGo Special: Embracing Volatility

In this special presentation from GoNoGo Charts, Alex and Tyler illustrate volatility compression in the lifecycle of a trade. See how they utilize this tool for entering trend continuations or reversals, with a view on the current market environment. This video was originally broadcast on November 16, 2022. Click this...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: The Birth of a Bull -- Volatility Expands to the Upside

GNG TV: The Birth of a Bull -- Volatility Expands to the Upside

In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, as yields pull back and the U.S. dollar accelerates into the NoGo trend, Alex and Tyler review the new Go trend in the S&P 500 Index ($SPX) daily chart. U.S. midterm elections are concluding and...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Really? Another Relief Rally?

GNG TV: Really? Another Relief Rally?

In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex takes a look at the markets from a GoNoGo perspective. Using a top-down approach, he discusses the major asset classes and what we are seeing in terms of trend. Diving into macro drivers such as rates, the dollar...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Earnings Do Not Equal Trends

GNG TV: Earnings Do Not Equal Trends

In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler take a look at some stocks that had big moves around earnings this week, including AT&T and IBM. Alex also runs through an example (Netflix) of using information from traditional technical analysis (in this...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Rally Provides No Relief as "NoGo" Returns

GNG TV: Rally Provides No Relief as "NoGo" Returns

In a highly volatile morning, markets reacted to an upside surprise in both PPI and CPI inflation data. Annualized inflation remains at 8.2% in the US and the S&P 500 gapped lower at the open. Despite a magnificent rally back into positive territory by midday, the trend...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: It's Just a Lower High Until it Isn't!

GNG TV: It's Just a Lower High Until it Isn't!

In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex Cole runs through the markets, discussing the major asset trends and macro drivers that affect equity prices, such as Treasury rates, Oil prices and the dollar. Alex looks at the S&P 500 in some detail to...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Risk-Off Environment Despite Key Support

GNG TV: Risk-Off Environment Despite Key Support

In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler review Wednesday's upside move in the context of a persistent "NoGo" trend in US Equities, Commodities, and bond prices. The continued "NoGo" trend conditions on the daily and weekly charts...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Relative Strength in Renewables

GNG TV: Relative Strength in Renewables

In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler assess the acceleration of the "NoGo" for US equities ($SPY) in the wake of the latest rate hike ($TNX). Go trends for US Dollar and Government Yields are uninterrupted, but the energy space is...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Inflation Interpretation Weighs Heavily on Stocks

GNG TV: Inflation Interpretation Weighs Heavily on Stocks

In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler are reminded of a core tenet of technical analysis: prediction, presumption, forecasting and estimation are fertile ground for behavioral bias and emotional baggage. The scientific money manager simply reacts responsibly to market moves looking at the...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: US Equities - the "NoGo" Continues

GNG TV: US Equities - the "NoGo" Continues

In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Tyler and Alex take a top down approach to the markets using GoNoGo Charts. Starting with the macro drivers such as Treasury rates, oil and the dollar and moving into a relative strength Sector RelMap, they analyze leaders and...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: US Equities Back in "NoGo" Trend

GNG TV: US Equities Back in "NoGo" Trend

In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler examine the weight of the evidence and use GoNoGo to react responsibly to market trends. S&P 500 trends are in NoGo conditions across weekly, daily, and intraday timeframes. US Interest rates ($TNX) decisively broke...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Cross Asset Trends as the Summer Ends

GNG TV: Cross Asset Trends as the Summer Ends

In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler review the important macro forces influencing equity performance this week. As rising rates resume and the dollar churns higher, short-term headwinds for risk assets deliver consolidation within our recent "Go" trend. The blended weight...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Equities Rally Through Resistance, Dollar Now a "NoGo"

GNG TV: Equities Rally Through Resistance, Dollar Now a "NoGo"

As US Equity indices broke through overhead supply, trend conditions strengthened to strong blue "Go" bars. In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler review the intermarket headwinds for risk assets including treasury rates ($TNX), the US Dollar index ($UUP) and high...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: "Go" Trend Reaches Resistance - Can it Continue?

GNG TV: "Go" Trend Reaches Resistance - Can it Continue?

In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler talk about how the recent rally in risk assets has reached its first hurdle. They also explain that the strength of recent Go trends for the S&P 500, Growth sectors like Information Technology ($XLK)...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Retest and Resume for New "Go" Trends

GNG TV: Retest and Resume for New "Go" Trends

In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler see the rotation continue into the growth sectors and risky assets this week. With the start of a shift to risky assets being visualized by the GoNoGo Asset map and GoNoGo Sector Relmap, they look at...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Constructive Evidence for Risk-On Markets

GNG TV: Constructive Evidence for Risk-On Markets

In this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler explain some risk-on behavior this week as U.S. domestic equities paint a first aqua "Go" bar. An analysis of the GoNoGo Sector Relmap shows rotation into growth sectors like technology and discretionary and...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Open to All Outcomes

GNG TV: Open to All Outcomes

GoNoGo Charts combine a broad scope of the most widely used technical indicators to provide a weight of the evidence perspective on Trend, Momentum, Volume and Volatility. Within the "NoGo" environment for equities, many investors have "anticipatory excitement" about the potential bottom in price and a...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Overhead Resistance for Energy Trade

GNG TV: Overhead Resistance for Energy Trade

Academic evidence solidifies that the market is a leading economic indicator. No one knows what will happen next in terms of an economic recession, but we can look at the weight of the evidence to put probabilities on our side. On this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Defense Wins Championships

GNG TV: Defense Wins Championships

On this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler review the markets that have been struggling through the tough macro environment. Looking closely at charts of treasury yields, the U.S. Dollar and oil, on both a near-term and long-term basis, investors can see the...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Rally? Really? "NoGo" Strengthens in US Equities

GNG TV: Rally? Really? "NoGo" Strengthens in US Equities

On this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler walk through GoNoGo Charts from a top-down perspective, with special attention to US equity markets following the announcement from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday. The fed rate hike remained in line with Wall St....   READ MORE 

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Special Presentation: Beat the Benchmark!

Special Presentation: Beat the Benchmark!

In this special one-hour workshop, viewers will gain a thorough understanding of critical concepts in technical analysis and how to apply them to their own investment process. Specifically, Alex and Tyler will address allocation and security selection to improve performance results, no matter what investment products, time period, or trading...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Relief Rally Fails + Upcoming Special

GNG TV: Relief Rally Fails + Upcoming Special

On this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex takes a look at how equities have failed to move higher this week, making it more likely that last week's rally in equities was a relief rally, not the start of something more constructive. Starting from...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: A Low, But is it THE Low?

GNG TV: A Low, But is it THE Low?

Investors and analysts see signs of life amid risk assets – bullish divergences, holding support, relief in rates and weakening USD – however, bear market relief rallies can be tempting and destructive. On this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler look through signs across asset classes...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Is There Enough Momentum to Change the Trend?

GNG TV: Is There Enough Momentum to Change the Trend?

On this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler take a look through the markets and discuss how the "Go" trend in the dollar is being tested for the first time in months. Likewise, the relentless rising rates of the last few months...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Just Say "NoGo" to Bear Market Rallies

GNG TV: Just Say "NoGo" to Bear Market Rallies

Defense is still the play on this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show. Wednesday's heavy selloff has tempted many analysts to go "bottom fishing" for oversold opportunities. But, instead of forecasting a market bottom, investors can use the weight of the evidence in...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Equity Selloff Continues, Commodities Hold a "Go" Trend

GNG TV: Equity Selloff Continues, Commodities Hold a "Go" Trend

Alex and Tyler are back together talking markets from midtown Manhattan on this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show. The heavy selling pressure this week has kept US Treasury bonds and major equity indices in strong "NoGo" trends. While many analysts are searching for signs...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Volatility Ensures Keeping Up Defenses!

GNG TV: Volatility Ensures Keeping Up Defenses!

On this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex and Tyler are back from the CMT Symposium in Washington D.C. and excited to dig into the markets! Following a big rally mid-week, they run through all the charts of interest and discuss the importance of keeping...   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: With Rates Near 2018 Highs, U.S. Markets Sell Off

GNG TV: With Rates Near 2018 Highs, U.S. Markets Sell Off

On this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, U.S. markets continue to sell off as the picture of the asset classes change. Stocks join bond prices in a strong "NoGo" as commodities and and the dollar continue to maintain their "Go" trends....   READ MORE 

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GNG TV: Equities Struggle, Defensive Sectors Continue to Lead

GNG TV: Equities Struggle, Defensive Sectors Continue to Lead

On this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, with Equities recovering this week, Alex and Tyler look at what they would like to see happen from a momentum perspective to have faith in the "Go" trend. Even with the "Go" in place, it...   READ MORE 

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Rising Rates, Strong Dollar, Surging Wheat

Rising Rates, Strong Dollar, Surging Wheat

On this week's edition of the GoNoGo Charts show, Alex discusses another interesting week in the markets. We can see that the trends remain unchanged; "Go" trends persist in equities, commodities, the dollar and bitcoin. What is of note, however, is that only the greenback'...   READ MORE