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Preface to all parts: over this long weekend, I wanted to share some of the most interesting charts of companies that will be doing earnings announcements this week. The timing of the announcement for this group is in the subject line.
Preface to all parts: over this long weekend, I wanted to share some of the most interesting charts of companies that will be doing earnings announcements this week. The timing of the announcement for this group is in the subject line.
Anyone on the prowl for vulnerable ETFs might want to look at consumer staples, the symbol being XLP:
My fondness for ratio charts is unbounded. Allow me to share three of them with you that I believe illustrate how prone the market is right now to a sell-off.
The first is the Dow Jones Composite divided by the M2 money supply. The nature of the current bull market is different than the prior two. In those – – during what were relatively normal times- – – the market ascended, carved out a topping pattern, and then plunged.
Since the Fed has taken their manipulation up to “11”, the market doesn’t have the opportunity to create a rounded top. It does, however, yield a fairly clean channel, and we are mushed at the top of that channel right now.
