Market Signals & Indicators

What is Market Breadth? When I refer to breadth in the markets I am looking at a combination of the Advance/Decline ratio, Up/Down Volume ratio, and the Cumulative NYSE TICK indicator. The most pure way to track breadth on a cumulative longer term level is the NYAD...

The Volatility Index or VIX is at one of its highest sustained levels since the COVID crash in early 2020 and since late February it has maintained an inverted futures curve, also known as backwardation. If you are interested in an overview of what the VIX is and how...

The Volatility index or VIX as I will refer to it has been a hot topic to start 2022 as market volatility has ramped up and surged back to levels not seen in the last year. When volatility increases it becomes that much more important to watch the VIX and how it...

On Monday 1/24 when markets started the week in panic I sat there cool as a cucumber seeing exactly the kinds of signals I wanted to in order to put some cash to work and get back long markets that triggered a bear signal back on 1/4. The rest of the week was choppy...

Despite the S&P, Nasdaq and Dow Jones trading near all-time highs to start 2022 the real story has been the destruction under the surface in growth stocks. Investors that are of the buy and hold type are learning a tough lesson watching many of these stocks sink...

Short-answer...No; Long Answer...No You see it so often across social media as people post insider sales at top performing stocks as a "warning signal" yet there is no empirical evidence that this information holds any value. As we have long described, insider buying...

Market internals help us understand insights into the market’s breadth or its true energy “underneath the hood” of the market. With so many stocks and sectors moving on a daily basis, as a shorter term trader it's important to see what the broad market is doing on any...