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Why We're Back To Tactically Fading Strength

April 10, 2016

From the desk of Thomas Bruni @BruniCharting

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The weight of the evidence has been building in favor of the bears over the last week or two, making the US equity weakness this week anything but surprising. Throughout the duration of this post I'll outline the evidence that I've been noticing over the last two weeks and what it means for us as market participants moving forward.

Yen Strength - The Yen broke out structurally late last year and hasn't looked back since. Tactically my upside targets were hit this week, but structurally this market has a lot more room to run. Given the high negative correlation between the Yen and US equities, this should continue to be a headwind for equity markets going forward.

04-07-2016 Yen Weekly Chart

[Chart Of The Week] The Best Market Neutral Trade In the U.S.

April 8, 2016

We've had a heck of a rally in stocks over since late January, led by emerging markets, energy and metal stocks. Starting in mid-February the U.S. and other developed nations got the memo and started to play catch-up. We couldn't be happier with the performance of the stock market since then. But over the past couple of weeks all of our upside targets have been hit; all of the U.S. Indexes and sectors and about 90% of global indexes. So I've therefore been pretty neutral towards stocks since late last month, but I finally turned more bearish earlier this week.

Here is a market neutral trade that I think is definitely worth paying attention to. Whether you're bullish or bearish, this breakout is not something we should ignore:

About That Massive Breakout In Kiwi

April 6, 2016

From the desk of Thomas Bruni @BruniCharting

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From the Brazilian Real and Australian Dollar to the Turkish Lira, many global currencies have been gaining significant traction relative to the US Dollar over the past several weeks and months. These currency moves have also had significant impacts on the equity markets of their respective countries as they tend to be positively correlated.

Last week the New Zealand Dollar joined that group by breaking out across multiple timeframes.

Here's Why General Electric Is A Short

April 5, 2016

I think there is a nice shorting opportunity in General Electric that we can take advantage of this month. There's nothing better than making money when a stock is falling. The reason is because stocks tend to move a lot faster on the way down, than on their way up. It's the old, Escalator Up & Elevator Down behavior.

The way I see it, $GE hit our upside target of $31 last November, so there's been no reason to own it. This target is based on the 161.8% Fibonacci extension of the massive consolidation throughout 2013-2015. Here is a weekly chart showing prices getting up there, pulling back in December and January, and now more recently rallying back up towards that $31 level and beyond:

The Trade: Buy Twitter and Short Facebook

April 5, 2016

It is very difficult, if not impossible, to put all social media stocks into one category. We do our best with ETFs like $SOCL, but they can be heavily skewed by certain stocks and it ignores others with smaller market caps. Also, what does a company LinkedIn have to do with Yelp or Yahoo? I think we need to be careful grouping them into just one category, and keep in mind that they are all individuals with their own problems as well as their own unique positive qualities.

The reason I bring this up is because yesterday afternoon, Michael Santoli tweeted out a mystery chart asking followers whether it was a buy or sell:

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[Premium] My Favorite Large-Cap Stocks To Short Today

April 5, 2016

It's been a while since I laid out a bunch of short ideas. As you guys know, I've been really bullish since late January. But hey, upside targets get hit, sentiment shifts, and things eventually change. Here are a list of Dow Components that I think are good shorting opportunities today:

Banking On Lower Prices In Capital One

April 1, 2016

From the desk of Thomas Bruni @BruniCharting

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The financial sector of the S&P 500 has been a major laggard over the last few years and 2016 is no exception with the sector down roughly 6% YTD.

The five year daily ratio chart of XLF / SPY represents this relationship. This ratio broke down out of a multi-year downtrend channel while momentum confirmed a bearish range by moving into oversold territory. These conditions, combined with the presence of a downward sloping 200 day moving average, suggest that the under-performance of financials relative to the broader market is likely to continue.

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[Chart Of The Week] This Important U.S. Stock Index Is Breaking Out

March 31, 2016

We've just witnessed one of the most epic rallies in the stock market that we've seen in a long time. Remember, this has been dominated by global indexes, particularly Emerging Markets, not U.S. Stocks. We could not be happier to see this rally progress so well as we've been pounding the table to be long since late January. By mid-February, the U.S. and other developed markets put in their bottoms and started to play catch up to the rest of the world. But the underperformance of the U.S. has continued anyway.

Today's Chart Of The Week represents what could potentially be the start of a major structural improvement for U.S. Stocks:

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[Premium] Everything You Need To Know About The US Stock Indexes: S&P500, DJIA, Nasdaq100, Russell2000, Mid-cap400

March 29, 2016

We've been pretty neutral the majority of the U.S. Stock Market indexes over the past couple of weeks since they first starting hitting our upside targets. Some of them, like the Nasdaq100 and Mid-cap400 had yet to reach out upside objectives, but we are approaching those now. I will argue, though, that the developments we've seen are constructive, both in price behavior and in the breadth itself.

Here is what I think we need to keep in mind with each of the major Indexes. We're using only bar charts today in order to put extra emphasis on price for this particular exercise:

Why It's Time To Buy The Brazilian Real

March 29, 2016

From the desk of Thomas Bruni @BruniCharting

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From late January until today, there have been tactical breakouts in currencies of countries with significant commodity exposure relative to the US Dollar. This has provided a tailwind to a number of emerging market equities that have subsequently followed through to the upside. Many of these equity markets are concentrated in Latin America, but areas like South Africa, Africa, Australia, and Turkey have benefited as well.

Whether or not these tactical moves will continue and develop into long-term trends is entirely unknown, but the risk/reward in the US Dollar/Brazilian Real looks particularly skewed in favor of the bears here.