As you can
see on the chart below, $ SPY is currently trading well above the dominant uptrend line of the current rally:
You can
see on the chart below that investor sentiment sometimes pushes one category of stocks (U.S. or international) ahead of the other, and that's one reason a portfolio that includes both geographic sectors can be less risky.
As you can
see on the chart below, TMF has now confirmed its intermediate - term trend reversal, and has convincingly broken out above horizontal price resistance as well:
As you can
see on the chart below, some critics loathed or loved his latest film.
As you can
see on the chart below, the reversal date did mark the end of a five - day corrective rally and triggered a sell signal at 1176.75, followed by sharp decline to 1128.25, before the market found any support.
Data from the BLS shows that in the past five years the balance of persons employed full - time and part - time has shifted by about two percentage points, as
seen on the chart below.
The average contract rate on conventional loans used to purchase newly built single - family homes edged down by two basis points, from an even 4.00 to 3.98 percent — a decline too small to
see on the chart below:
Not exact matches
And while not every out - of - pocket health - care expense counts as deductible, long - term care insurance premiums do, with age - based caps
on how much you can deduct yearly (
see chart below).
Remember, too, that long - term care premiums are deductible up to certain amounts, the value of which depends
on your age (
see chart below).
Estimated taxes for the first quarter of 2018 are also due
on April 17, marking the first of four payment deadlines (
see chart below).
For more
charts like the one
below,
see the second edition of our
chart book, Putting a Face
on America's Tax Returns.
To
see more
on how USPS Priority Mail sizes up against private carriers like FedEx and UPS this holiday season, check out the
charts below.
As you can
see in the
chart below, based
on investment performance for the 35 - year period beginning in 1972, a hypothetical balanced portfolio of 50 % stocks, 40 % bonds, and 10 % short - term investments would have done quite well for a retiree who limited withdrawals to 4 % annually.
In 2017, high yield spreads (based
on the Barclays High Yield Index) declined in 8 of 12 months, with relatively minor spread widening, 20 to 25 basis points (bps, or.20 to.25 percentage points) in March and August (
see the
chart below).
A great example of just how ineffective major moving averages when the bulls rush to the exit door can be
seen on the daily
chart of Charles Schwab ($ SCHW)
below.
As you can
see in the
chart below, gold has steadily marched higher while the real rate
on the 10 - year Treasury has moved largely sideways in the past year.
The increasing bullish momentum in the financial ETF we mentioned last Friday can be easily
seen on the percentage change
chart below, which compares the performance of S&P Select Financial SPDR ($ XLF) against the S&P 500 SPDR ($ SPY), a popular ETF proxy that tracks the performance of the broad - based S&P 500 Index:
Prior to buy entry
on May 1, the stock possessed the top 5 technical traits for breakout buying, which we have listed
below (
see the first
chart below for a visual reference):
As
seen in the
chart below, both M&A and IPO markets have placed increasing valuations
on successfully exited venture backed companies.
As you can
see from the
chart below, the likelihood of getting to 100 points
on one roll of the pigs is very, very small.
More impressive still is that in spite of the Fed raising short - term interest rates by a total of 1.0 % since mid-December 2015, the approximately 2.30 % yield
on the 10 - year Treasury as of mid-July is near where it was at the end of 2015 and 2016 (
see the
chart below).
A couple of other interesting data points
on the direct selling industry are women make up 77 % of sellers and wellness products are driving the growth of the industry (
see chart below; click to enlarge).
As the
chart below shows, most SMB owners also
see automation technology as having a positive impact
on their business.
A Fed
on hold and weaker dollar are good news for the asset class (
see the
chart below), and there are signs of progress
on structural reforms in certain EM countries.
His objective is to buy (sell) currencies expected to appreciate (depreciate) based
on aggregation of binary signals (
see the first
chart below).
You can
see this trend in the
chart below, which was published by Freddie Mac
on February 9, 2017.
You can
see this in the
chart below, which is based
on the weekly mortgage market survey conducted by Freddie Mac.
You can
see this trend clearly in the
chart below, which is based
on the weekly market survey conducted by Freddie Mac.
This decline can be
seen on the Meridian
chart below.
As we can
see in the
chart below, you can place your stop loss near the 50 % level of the consolidation range or
on the other side of the price action setup; in the example
below it was a pin bar.
On the
chart of S&P 500 SPDR ($ SPY)
below, you can
see the light volume of the breakout by comparing the day's volume with the green line at the bottom (50 - day average volume):
This
chart illustrates a «rule that changed» — for eight decades (actually longer, but
on this
chart we can
see the final eight decades during which the rule applied) the dividend yield
on the S&P 500 Index would never fall much
below 3 %.
On that day, we stated that, «the price action (in both QQQ & SPY) has been contained by a tight trend channel since the June 4th swing lows (
see red lines in
chart below).
The entry, exit, and overall price action described above can be
seen on the daily
chart of $ AMD
below:
While I believe markets are efficient when it comes to stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities and reflect all known information at the time, in the case of bitcoin, and a few other instances like the ONLY stock I've bought in over a year (now up big), when I start to
see the mainstream media reporting
on something, google search volume through the roof (
chart below) and lastly, when your mom asks about it — it may be signaling mainstream acceptance and further expansion of a major bubble.
This is because, as we can
see on its latest 1 - year
chart below, the Head - and - Shoulders bottom that is developing in it has now become pleasingly symmetrical, which means that the time is nigh for it to break out upside from this pattern into a significant new bull market upleg.
We take some comfort that bond spreads have not moved significantly even as the yield
on the 10 - year has backed up three quarters of a point from the 2016 lows (
see chart below).
If so, watch out
below for copper prices, again, based
on the connection that we
see in
Chart 6.
You can
see from the
chart below that the last time a 60/40 portfolio had a negative nominal 7 - year return (before inflation, what you
see on your account statements) was 1933.
Over the past five sessions, First Trust Health Care AlphaDEX ETF ($ FXH) has rallied into resistance near its previous swing high of $ 31.45 (
see dashed horizontal line
on chart below).
Consider these options that may be available to you (
see chart below) and read Viewpoints
on Fidelity.com: Your bridge to Medicare.
The decline also caused an ugly, wide - ranged bar to form
on the weekly
chart, which should now act as overhead resistance (
see horizontal line
on the
chart below).
The
chart below is a short - term
chart but you have
seen the one I provided when I wrote the initial piece
on the GTSR last week.
This second trend borne from ultra-loose monetary policy has forced many investors to seek out higher - yielding alternatives including dividend stocks, which,
on average, yield more than 10 - year government bonds in most major developed markets, including Canada (
see chart below).
As you look at these Bible translations in the
charts below, you can
see that they all fall
on the «Formal Equivalent» or «Word for Word» approach to translation, rather than the «Dynamic Equivalent» or «Paraphrase» approach.
This game opened at Packers -4, and despite the large majority of the tickets being
on Green Bay (
see chart below), big bets from professional players have moved this line down to juiced - up -3 in most places.
Betting market: The ticket count and money wagered
on this game both favor the Cardinals big time (
see chart below).
As you can
see in the photo
below, little has changed over the last couple weeks
on Michigan's depth
chart.
The majority of the tickets are
on the over, while the bigger money has come in
on the under (
see chart below).
Suffice it to say, the books are going to be huge Rams fans
on Sunday (
see chart below).