I was a guest speaker again this week on MarketWatchers LIVE over at StockCharts.com.  Always a pleasure to speak with Tom Bowley and Erin Swenlin who demonstrate straightforward and powerful methods to understand the markets through charts.

I've been chipping away at articles I've stored in my Pocket and just made it through a series of pieces on the "Sell in May" phenomenon. If you're not familiar, the proclamation "Sell in May and Go Away" speaks to the perceived seasonal trend where the US stock market tends to be weaker in the summer to fall period than the winter to spring period.

I am naturally quite disorganized.  Early in my career, I learned that if I wanted to compete with others in a professional setting, I would need to address this glaring personality flaw.  Thus began a lifelong effort to make sure my time and energy was devoted to what is most important to me.

Any time I read about a market "stalling" or reaching "stall speed" my palms start to sweat.  They are literally sweating right now.  Let me share why I'm uncomfortable, then I'll explain why stalls are often an ideal representation of the markets.

Growth stocks have been on an incredible run for the last sixteen months, handily outpacing value names.  A recent breakdown in the growth to value range suggests this trend may be reversing.

One of the most important lessons I learned as an aspiring technical analyst was to consider multiple time frames in your analysis…

The story goes* that in the mid-1800's in London there was an outbreak of cholera.  Doctors were faced with an epidemic with people dying off in droves.  They needed to get to the bottom of things, and fast.

I’m often asked whether I’m bullish or bearish on a certain market.  I always like to remind people that the market can actually go in three directions, listed in order from least painful to most painful: up, down, and sideways.

It is with a heavy heart that we acknowledge the delisting of Long Blockchain, a stock that quickly became the poster child for Blockchain Bubblemania.

We had a couple days in Munich last week before flying down to Palermo for Spring Break in Sicily.  We also were blessed with yet another reminder of the importance of the well-crafted backup plan.