Long-Term Trend Archive

  • Market Update – September 6, 2009

    Market Update – September 6, 2009

    I’ve repeated the mantra the last few weeks, “the trend is your friend.”  The media is abuzz about the current market rally.  “Will it continue? Yes.”   “Will we have a correction? Yes.”  “Will we retest the March lows? Yes.”  If you follow the media, you...

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  • All is Well – Market Update August 19, 2009

    All is Well – Market Update August 19, 2009

    It doesn’t take much to change the sentiment of the mass media covering the stock markets.  Monday, the word on the street was that we would retrace back to our March lows.  The trend had broken and traders should be ready for a precipitous fall. ...

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  • Weekly Market Analysis: July 6-10, 2009

    Weekly Market Analysis: July 6-10, 2009

    The markets showed resilience through the end of the trading week. Despite an initial breakdown on Monday and Tuesday, the bears were unable to strike down the bulls as the week progressed. The S&P 500 did break the neckline of the head-and-shoulders pattern, but found...

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  • Weekly Market Analysis: June 29 – July 3, 2009

    Weekly Market Analysis: June 29 – July 3, 2009

    The markets continue to show weakness over the last two weeks.  Both the long-term and short-term trends are trading in ranges, but are showing a bearish tendency.

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  • Weekly Market Analysis: June 15-19, 2009

    Weekly Market Analysis: June 15-19, 2009

    The markets showed weakness over the last week.  Both the long-term and short-term outlook turned weakly bearish early in the week, but be wary when using the overall markets to guide position entry.

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  • Weekly Market Analysis: June 8-12, 2009

    Weekly Market Analysis: June 8-12, 2009

    The long-term trend remains bullish, overall (though weakening), however the short-term trend has become range-bound over the last few weeks.  The uptrend that began on March 9th, dominates the charts, but, after popping out of a symmetrical triangle two weeks ago, the markets have been...

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