August 2025 Mid-Month Recap

The number of stocks rising lately has increased even though this year’s winners have taken a breather. A bull’s dream is for the broader market to keep trending higher as investors rotate like this underneath the surface.  Small caps and non-Mag 7 stocks have fully...

July 2025 Mid-Month Recap

Market technicians view “golden crosses” as a bullish signal. A golden cross occurs when a stock’s (or an index’s) 50-day moving average crosses up through the 200-day moving average as both are rising.  Many stocks have golden crosses now because of steep price gains...

June 2025 Mid-Month Recap

It is no surprise that as the stock market has rallied sharply off the April 8th low, sentiment improved. Is the move from extreme fear into greed territory a sign of complacency?  Let’s look at two popular sentiment indicators: First, the CNN Fear and Greed Index has...

May 2025 Mid-Month Recap

With earnings coming in much stronger than expected and a series of trade policy reversals, stocks have cruised higher in May (up about 6% so far) and are now both higher for the year and within 4% of new all-time highs. The most significant walk-back came last week...

April 2025 Mid-Month Recap

The shares of Apple common stock peaked just after Christmas and then lost a third of their value in less than four months. They have since recovered about 17%.  There are many stocks that have been more volatile but Apple is the largest company by market value in the...

March 2025 Mid-Month Recap

It is ironic that the relative strength of international stocks versus U.S. stocks bottomed right when the “Make America Great Again” president was inaugurated.  But that is exactly what happened.  There has been a wide performance disparity that has emerged this year...