Doing Nothing in a Bull Market
As I continue my quest to clean out my Pocket queue, I came across an article from Ben Carlson on his A Wealth of Common Sense blog called "The Art of Doing Nothing." In my endless pursuit of the perfect work/life balance, I have often thought about the trap of "busyness" and the perils of pursuing perpetual productivity...
An Infographic is Worth a Thousand Words
A friend of mine turned me on to Visual Capitalist, a website that designs infographics for a variety of subject areas including finance. As you can probably guess from my career as a technical analyst, I am huge fan of using data visualizations to tell the story...
Surprising Strength in Utilities
I wrote an article for seeitmarket.com on the Utilities sector, highlighting five key stocks to watch in the space. While we're often drawn to the stocks and sectors making headlines, sometimes the best ideas are out there in unexpected places!
Bubblicious Irrationality
When I saw this Bloomberg article on bubble conditions, I immediately thought of last weekend at the Behavioral Finance Symposium in San Francisco. I helped run a workshop on the relationship of behavioral finance to trading and technical analysis...
Market Movements Always Need a Reason
Three things bothered me about this article about the Hang Seng selling off one day. First, why does there always have to be a reason for the market to sell off?...
Ten Quotes from the 2017 IFTA Conference
I recently attended the 30th annual conference for the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA). The IFTA Conference is held in a different location every year, and this year's event brought us all together in beautiful Milan.
Three Lessons from Mike Epstein
I was honored to receive the Mike Epstein award last week in New York from the MTA Educational Foundation. This is an award given "for support of the MTAEF mission, and being an outstanding advocate of Technical Analysis."
On FANGs and Euphoria
I read a series of articles on growth vs. value and the euphoric rise of the FANG stocks. Made me think a little more about "herding" and the emotional pull of uptrends...
A Brief Philosophy on Life
Re-reading my title for this post, I'm thinking that it would be impossible to come up with a more ridiculously all-encompassing headline. Why not just call it "Everything" or "The Answer"...?
Do Nothing Syndrome
As the equity markets continue to new highs, I'm reminded of Do Something Syndrome and the dangers of impatience. When your stocks are working, and charts are going up and to the right, why are you so compelled to mess it up?....
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