The Cincinnati Reds are on a run.  So is the market. The team that was forecasted to be one of the worst in the league this season, yet, has strung together 11 wins in a row.  It's a great feeling, because everyone loves a streak. Investors are no different.  Investors love it when the market […]

The housing market is in a bubble! Housing prices are set to fall by 30-50%! Higher interest rates are going to kill the housing market! You've likely heard one of these claims in the last year.  Regardless of which analyst or media outlet you follow, the claims have been out there. if you are listening […]

The markets head into this shortened trading week with some very extreme feelings. Just last week we saw three different Wall Street firms switch their posture from bearish to bullish as the "acceptance" phase of the market rally is really kicking into high gear. "What's the acceptance phase?"   Well, I'm glad you asked. Let's talk […]

The shorts are starting to get squeezed out of every corner of the market. We've talked about how the rally was starting to spread from the smaller group of large-cap tech stocks earlier this week to some of the small-cap stocks that make up the iShares Russel 2000 ETF (IWM). One of the casualties of […]

Mark Twain would likely love this sector today as the reports of its death may have been greatly exaggerated. Well, maybe at least for now it has. From my perspective, This may be one of the tallest Walls of Worry that the market has traded its way up, and there's one sector that's just joining […]

Remember Dow 10,000? I do the anticipation, the excitement, and then the selloff. The memory of the 10,000 mark crossed my head over the weekend as I read the point-counterpoint debate over whether the market has finally entered a new bull market.  Do you want my vote?  I'll give it to you in just a […]

I got a call from a friend last week with a very specific question.   "Hey CJ, I saw what happened with NVIDIA stock after earnings and I need to buy some of these shares.  Do you think it's worth dropping $40,000 on 100 shares of the stock for my portfolio?"   The concern that he had […]

Russell 2000 Index ETF (IWM) is testing its 200-Day Moving Average (MA200) Small-cap stocks have had a rough year as the IWM is only up 3% while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 are each up 13% and 33% respectively.   For the first time since November 2022, the IWM is starting to see its 50-day […]

Wow, what a week! Last week we got to watch the market overcome one of the largest crises that it faced in the last year… the Debt Ceiling. The politicians opted not to take this right up to the eleventh hour and do the market a favor by passing and signing legislation to raise the […]

If you need a laugh for a second, the current situation surrounding the debt ceiling reminds me of a Seinfeld episode.  Remember the episode when Kramer test drives the Saab to find out how far he can go on an empty tank of gas?  That's what's going on with the market right now. When it […]