Category: Charts/Essays/Reports

When I last covered the newspaper stocks four weeks ago, my conclusion was that they were nicely trending up but were too far gone to chase.

For those of you who’ve followed my work for any length of time know I prefer breadth indicators over technical indicators, ergo I prefer the % of stocks trading above a certain MA over MACD. Let’s do a run down of two short term S&P 500, Nasdaq 100 and NYSE breadth indicators.

It’s been a great couple weeks. More than two dozen stocks from our Long List broke out and rallied to their targets. Here are the ones that hit in just the last week or so.

When the internet became mainstream, the newspaper industry was near the top of everyone’s “going to die” list. From a business perspective, the economics were too good to be true. Instead of printing and distributing millions of physical papers, one copy could be posted on the internet for all to read.

Options expire this Friday, so let’s take a look at the open-interest on SPY, DIA, QQQQ and IWM to see if they hint at movement the rest of the week (this was written during the day Monday, so it uses data from over the weekend). Here’s the theory: the market conspires to cause the most […]

Casino stocks have surged recently; many are likely to begin continuation moves very soon. Here are a few ideas.

The home builder stocks have done very well lately. A couple weeks ago they offered hints buyers were coming into the market, so this past weekend several were added to the Leavitt Brothers Long List. Here’s a few charts from the group.

This is every stock on the Leavitt Brothers Long List. No cherry picking here. This is every stock. Are you getting these set ups before they move?

Here is a sampling of our set-ups from December 2009.

by Tom McClellan of www.msoscillator.com In his book, “The Tipping Point,” Malcolm Gladwell makes the argument that the drop in crime in New York City during the 1980s was brought about by then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s increased emphasis on little things, like making building owners clean up graffiti, or fixing a broken window. The hypothesis is […]