* Current Trend of Declining Rates Seen as Part of a Large Base * Downside Breakouts in Yields are Worldwide in Scope * US Short-Rates Look Vulnerable as Well * 30-Year Yield Completes a Top * Stocks and Commodities versus Bonds Current Trend of Declining Rates Seen as Part of a Large Base This week... READ MORE
* Top or Consolidation for Equities? * Agricultural Commodities Perking Up Following a Severe Sell-Off * Grains Fully Supporting Price Action in the DBA Top or Consolidation for Equities? The S&P, like the other market averages, has been in a trading range since March. We will have to see how it... READ MORE
* Gold Breaks Out against Stocks * Gold Itself is about to Test Mega-Resistance * When Gold Beats Stocks, that’s usually Bullish for Gold - and Bearish for Stocks * Gold Leads Commodities Gold Breaks Out against Stocks Monday saw the gold/stock ratio break decisively above its 2019 downtrend line. The line... READ MORE
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in Martin Pring's Market Roundup on Wednesday, May 8th at 6:37pm ET. One area I monitor daily is the technical picture of bond spreads and other market relationships that reflect confidence. That’s because changes in their direction... READ MORE
* Long-Term Divergences * Some Short-Term Technical Sell Signals Triggered in the Last Few Days * Prices May Be Falling, But Bond Spreads (Confidence) are Holding in There Long-Term Divergences My first reaction to this week’s stock market tantrum (in response to the China trade talks) was to brush it off as... READ MORE
* Two Key Commodity Benchmarks Violated Trend Lines * Commodity Sector ETFs Breaking as Well * Longer-Term Picture May be Reversing In early April, I tacked on a couple of commodity charts at the end of an article that commented on global equities breaking out. There, I noticed that some commodity indexes were... READ MORE
Here is the link to this month's Market Roundup video. There are a significant number of long-term charts that are starting to turn higher suggesting, that the brief economic slowdown in late 2018 is behind us and we are starting the next major leg higher. Market Roundup with... READ MORE
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in Martin Pring's Market Roundup on Wednesday, April 24th at 7:03pm ET. Yesterday’s all-time new high in the S&P was well documented by the media, but what did not receive any attention was the fact... READ MORE
* The SPY/EFA Ratio Completes an Inverse Head-and-Shoulders * SPY/EFA Breakout also Bullish for the Dollar * The Euro, Swiss Franc and Yen * China Bucks the Flow The SPY/EFA Ratio Completes an Inverse Head-and-Shoulders Yesterday’s all-time new high in the S&P was well documented by the media,... READ MORE
* The Long-Term Picture Looks Positive * Gold’s Tuesday Downside Breakout Could Be the Spoiler * Platinum is Trying to Break Out Against Gold - Why That’s Important for the Economy The Long-Term Picture Looks Positive Over the last 6 years, it appears that the gold price has been trying to... READ MORE
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in Martin Pring's Market Roundup on Tuesday, April 9th at 1:08pm ET. Global stocks, represented in the form of the MSCI World Stock ETF (ACWI), peaked in January of last year and gradually worked their way lower into... READ MORE
* Global Stocks Join Global A/D Line Above Key Trend Lines * Bitcoin Looking Better After an 80% Drop * Inflation vs. Deflation Global Stocks Join Global A/D Line Above Key Trend Lines Global stocks, represented in the form of the MSCI World Stock ETF (ACWI), peaked in January of last... READ MORE
* S&P Relative Action Edging Through Resistance * British Pound Going Wobbly Before Brexit? * Mega Buy Signal Could be in Store for the Shanghai Composite * Gold at a Momentum Downtrend Line as Well S&P Relative Action Edging Through Resistance We have all heard about the US economy being... READ MORE
The monthly Market Roundup video for April is now available. Good luck and good charting, Martin J. Pring The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position or opinion of Pring Turner Capital Group of Walnut Creek or its affiliates.... READ MORE
* Long-Term Picture Remains Finely Balanced * Short-Term Indicators Still Showing Weakness * Confidence is Starting to Erode Again * Financials Break Down from a Broadening Wedge Earlier in the month, I wrote about the Ides of March and the fact that the market looked overstretched, apparently in need of some mean reversal corrective... READ MORE
* Deflation Index Leading the Market Higher * Inflation/Deflation Ratio Starting to Break in a Deflationary Direction * Several Deflation-Sensitive Industry Groups Looking Stronger Deflation Index Leading the Market Higher Last week, I wrote about the possibility of an upside price move in the bond market. So far, most areas remain below... READ MORE
* Adjusted vs. Unadjusted Prices * Bonds Reflect the Fine Current Balance Between Inflationary and Deflationary Forces Adjusted vs. Unadjusted Prices Chart 1 shows that the iShares 20-year Trust ETF, the TLT, has been in a trading range since late 2014. Currently, the price is above its 12-month MA and the long-term... READ MORE
* Dollar Diffusion Gives a Buy Signal * Differential Interest Rates Turn Bullish for the Dollar * $NYA and $COMPQ Drop Below Their 200-Day MAs One would think that a record trade deficit would be bearish for the dollar. However, the market does not agree, as the Invesco Bullish Dollar ETF (UUP) just... READ MORE
* Strong Broadly-Based Rally * NYSE Declining Peaks and Troughs Still in Force * Several Short-Term Indicators Starting to Point South Strong Broadly-Based Rally The rally dating from Christmas Eve has been a powerful one, generating an approximate 20% gain from its low. It has also been broad, not only enabling the NYSE... READ MORE
* Shanghai Composite Secular Uptrend Line is Still Intact * If China Rallies, Will It Take Commodities Along for the Ride? * China vs. Hong Kong * Chinese ETFs Experiencing a Reversal Shanghai Composite Secular Uptrend Line is Still Intact Chart 1 features a really important benchmark for the Shanghai Composite - a secular... READ MORE
* Superior Breadth Over Price Does Not Always Have a Positive Outcome * Weighted versus Equal Weight Chart 1 shows that the NYSE A/D Line touched a new high last week and seems to be leading the S&P higher. The textbooks tell us that a broad advance, such as... READ MORE
* Dollar About to Break New Ground? * Euro Starting to Break Down * Swiss Franc at a Major Juncture Point * The Fortunes of the Canadian, Australian and EM Currencies are Tied to Commodities Dollar About to Break New Ground? I last wrote about the dollar at the end of January, pointing out... READ MORE
* Three Major Averages are at their 200-Day MAs * The NYSE Has Been Declining for a Year * Will There Be Another Whipsaw? Today, of course, is the State of the Union Address, but for the markets it might well be the “State of the 200-Day Moving Average,” as that’s the... READ MORE
The Market Roundup Video For February is now available. Good luck and good charting, Martin J. Pring The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position or opinion ofPring Turner Capital Groupof Walnut Creek or its affiliates.... READ MORE
* The Long-Term Trend for Commodities Remains Bearish * What the Stock Market is Telling Us About Commodities * Short-Term Picture Not So Strong Recently, we have seen several reports of a weakening economy. These include a sharp drop in both the University of Michigan and Conference Board consumer sentiment and confidence numbers,... READ MORE
* Long-Term Trend Still Points South * It Would be Unusual Not to Experience a Test of the December Low * Dollar ETF Breaking Out? Last week, I pointed out that the major averages were running into resistance at a moment when they were moderately overbought. At the time, some form of a... READ MORE
* Averages Reach Resistance * Selected Emerging Markets Starting to Look Interesting Last week, I wrote that, while my view on the primary trend remained bearish, I thought the lows established a couple of weeks or so ago stood a good chance of holding for a while. That view was based on... READ MORE
* Short/Intermediate Oversold Condition * High-Low Data Reaches an Extreme * The Bear is Still With Us Until It Isn’t As we all know, markets have a strong tendency to swing from excessive optimism to extremes of pessimism. During the last month, we have certainly seen a substantial amount of pessimism... READ MORE
The Market Roundup Video For January is now available. Good luck and good charting, Martin J. Pring The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position or opinion ofPring Turner Capital Groupof Walnut Creek or its affiliates.... READ MORE
* Two Failed Outside Bars * Long-Term Indicators Tipping to the Bullish Side * Gold and the Shares Perking Up Against Equities in General * Silver Setting Up for a Possible Major Breakout Just before Christmas, I pointed out that the gold price, especially the shares, had experienced an outside day. Going by that... READ MORE
In my December Market Roundup webinar, I touched on the idea that the economy had begun to seriously slow down. Wednesday’s Fed action, actual and potential for next year, will amplify that process. The equity markets are obviously paying attention, but the increased probability of higher rates and a... READ MORE
* The Market Remains Oversold * More Trend Damage Triggered * Key Ratios Have Just Broken to New Lows As a kid, I used to love building sand castles and defending them against the ensuing wave action. If the tide was coming in, however, it always proved to be a fool’s errand... READ MORE
* Pinocchio Lies * Oversold Sentiment Indicators * Oversold Oscillators Pinocchio Lies Monday’s action was what I call “scary bullish.” First, we saw prices sell-off sharply, only to then rebound as if nothing had happened. Well, something did happen - the formation of a bullish Pinocchio bar on several Indexes. Chart 1... READ MORE
* The Secular Bear Market in Yields * Near-Term Indications of a Decline in Bond Yields * Watch That Stock/Bond Relationship for an Important Signal The Secular Bear Market in Yields Please note that the comments in this article relate to bond yields with maturities of 3-years or longer. They do not... READ MORE
The Market Roundup Video For December is now available. Good luck and good charting, Martin J. Pring The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position or opinion ofPring Turner Capital Groupof Walnut Creek or its affiliates.... READ MORE
* Housing Starts are Rolling Over * The Trend of Margin Debt is Bearish The NYSE Margin and the housing sector do not have much in common beyond the fact that both gave sell signals in October. Neither development bodes well for the recovery of the stock market. Let’s take a... READ MORE
* Indexes on the Brink * Confidence Relationships Starting to Break Down * Watch the Stock/Bond Ratio Indexes on the Brink More than once a week, I make sure to check several ratios that tell me whether investors and traders are getting more or less confident. These relationships, which we will get... READ MORE
* Commodities in General Remain in a Bear Market * Oil is Also in a Primary Bear Market * The Chart That Says That Some Kind of Bottom is at Hand I last wrote about oil back in early August, in an article entitled More Evidence Of A Commodity Bear Market. Back then,... READ MORE
* Indexes Reach Resistance and Retrace 61.8% of the Decline * Hourly Charts Offer the First Domino * Short-Term Breadth is Overstretched * NASDAQ Sports a Series of Declining Peaks and Troughs Indexes Reach Resistance and Retrace 61.8% of the Decline The market has been on a tear for the last couple... READ MORE
* The Long-Term Picture * Price Action Characteristics are Bearish * Gold Share Breadth is Negative * The Now or Never Chart The Long-Term Picture Gold was in a secular bull market between 2001 and 2011. It then sold off into 2014 and has been essentially range bound ever since. Chart 1 shows that... READ MORE