I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.  Remember when black Friday shopping was a big deal?  The news used to show long lines and mad dashes at 4am for people to get in on the brick-and-mortar deals.  It was an all-out panic that occurred...

It is no secret that technology-related stocks have a significant impact on the overall market’s movements.  In fact, the largest 5 tech stocks make up 24% of the S&P 50.  In other words, that is 1% of the components accounting for 24% of the...

In our last few updates, we have mentioned both the Russell 2000 and the S&P 1500 Advance Decline Line.  This week’s brief update will focus on developments within each of these indexes.  Advance Decline Line When we last discussed...

Technology had a good run last week, carrying the market indexes higher.  As has been stated in these updates plenty of times, technology-related stocks make up 44% of the S&P 500 (info tech & communications sectors, plus Amazon & Tesla). ...

Energy is currently the number one ranked US sector on a risk-adjusted basis.  This comes from a steep, parabolic rise that has occurred over the last month.  We have written about this in the last few weekly updates, but it is worth pointing out that...