Oil Compressing

Keith Schneider | November 17, 2019

US Equities shrugged off the political theater on Capitol Hill, the trade war with China, and assorted rebellions on multiple continents. Three out of the four key US equity indexes hit new all-time highs up another .75% on average, while …


Value Continues to Perform

Keith Schneider | November 11, 2019

This week’s Market Outlook is abbreviated due to our travel schedule.  We taught a master class at TradersExpo in Las Vegas.

This week’s highlights are:

  • Risk Gauges are 100% bullish
  • Volume patterns remain decent overall
  • Market Internals are slipping despite

Small Caps and Value Trying

Keith Schneider | November 3, 2019

Equity markets globally blasted higher this week with Russia leading the pack of actively traded country funds up, +2.65%. As we highlighted last week, Russia has been strong and received added help from the energy market on Friday.  Russia (RSX) …


From Russia With Love

Keith Schneider | October 27, 2019

As markets exit from the most dicey month of the year, it is interesting to note that key US equity benchmarks are still down a bit over the last three month rolling period despite the recent surge.

Don’t get me …


Sea Change Underway led by Small Caps, Value, and Foreign Equities

Keith Schneider | October 20, 2019

US equity markets were mostly flat this week except for small caps which led, up +1.59% playing catch up.

Looking under the hood showed that sector rotation was confusing.

Semis and, technology which are the leading hot speculative sectors, backed …


Round 2 Goes to China

Keith Schneider | October 13, 2019

US equity markets were under pressure early in the week, but reversed course Thursday and Friday, ending up about +1% for the week. Risk Gauges all flipped positive.

The twitter storm from the White House was relentless, sending the market …


Dead Unicorns and Small Caps

Keith Schneider | October 6, 2019

U.S. equities closed mostly down for the week after recovering nicely late Thursday and Friday from a 1300-point 3-day swoon in the Dow Industrials.

A noteworthy development was that the benchmark small-cap (IWM) index had a death cross and entered …


Is Value Back?

Keith Schneider | September 29, 2019

US equity markets were pressured this week by news of impeachment proceedings against President Trump. The ratcheting up of the trade war with China was the final straw for the markets on Friday with the IWM (Small Caps) leading the …


Flashback to the 70’s

Keith Schneider | September 22, 2019

Global equity markets had a moment of self doubt and most country ETFs backed off after digesting lower rates in the US. The thinking behind the tepid market response actually had some logic to it as the Fed stated they …


It’s Not (WE) Working

Keith Schneider | September 15, 2019

Global equity markets continued their climb with the S&P 500 hitting new all time highs on Thursday before backing off.

Small Caps (IWM) and value stocks roared, ignoring a massive correction in U.S. Treasuries. Small caps ended the week up …