Biotech stocks, which have risen 550% since the depths of the recession, are now prime targets of short sellers betting they will collapse in grand fashion. “Of any part of the market, this is the one with the most bubble-like characteristics, without question.”Bubble Watch: Biotech Edition Bubble Watch: Biotech Edition Bubble Watch: Biotech EditionThe financial markets have been on the […]
China’s stocks look to be falling back down to reality.After an epic rally that saw the Shanghai Composite index climb more than 40% this year and the tech-heavy Shenzhen Composite rise a world-leading 90%, a correction — or maybe worse — looks to be in the works.Last week both indices lost more than 10%, falling solidly into correction territory. But […]
Legendary investor Howard Marks likes to quote Albert Einstein: “I never think about the future — it comes soon enough.”But as Marks writes in his recent memo to clients of Oaktree Capital Management: “We can’t take that approach as investors, however. We have to think about the future. We just shouldn’t accord too much significance to our opinions.”Yet the pressure […]
Healthcare Highlights From Thursday 5/14 Game PlanEach week at ChartSmarter we like to bring to a little insight into what we do on a daily basis. We have been at it for 5 years and we love doing it. Each night we detail 7 to 8 of our favorite ideas, both long and short, for the next days session. We […]
Download Letter (PDF)June 12, 2015Crescat Capital Quarterly Investor Letter Q2 2015Performance UpdateWe are pleased to report that the Crescat Global Macro Fund was recently named one of the top-ten performing global macro hedge funds by BarclayHedge for the three years ended 3/31/2015. As shown in the table below, all three Crescat strategies performed strongly in Q1 while the S&P 500 […]
Stock Market Correction Appears UnderwayStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015Jun 06, 2015 – 10:50 PM GMTBy: Tony_CaldaroThe market started the week at SPX 2107. A gap up opening on Monday took the SPX to 2119. Then a gap down opening Tuesday took the SPX down to last week’s low at 2099. But the market gapped up on Wednesday carrying the SPX […]
Doug Short, Advisor PerspectivesHere’s some encouraging news for stock-market bears …Margin debt (red in the chart above) hit a new high in April.Even after adjusting for inflation, margin debt is now higher than it was at the peak of the great bull market in 2000 and the echo bull market in 2007.What is “margin debt”?It’s the amount of money stock […]
Stock Trading Alert: Stocks Extend Their Short-Term Uncertainty, Which Direction Is Next?By: Paul Rejczak | Thu, May 28, 2015SharePrintEmailStock Trading Alert originally published on May 28, 2015, 6:35 AM:Briefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,140, and profit target at 1,980, S&P 500 index)Our intraday outlook is bearish, and our short-term outlook is bearish:Intraday outlook […]
Stock Market SPX Uptrend Inflection PointStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015May 23, 2015 – 06:40 PM GMTBy: Tony_CaldaroThe market opened the week at SPX 2123. It then made marginal new all time highs on Monday, Tuesday, and also Wednesday, before going into a trading range for the rest of the week. The entire range for the week was only 15 points. […]
TraderFeed: Assessing Demand and Supply in the Stock Market
Assessing Demand and Supply in the Stock MarketBy now readers are aware that measures I track closely are buying pressure (demand) in the market versus selling pressure (supply). My measures are derived from a decomposition of the NYSE TICK, which is issued by the New York Stock exchange. The TICK is a […]
