With the swings in sentiment and price over the last couple of weeks it’s important to keep sight of some of the trends in the...

Well it looks like the Fed’s rate hiking cycle is finally underway in earnest this time, with the March hike making the chart of interest...

With all the talk of market bubbles and comparisons to the year 2000 and the dot-com mania, it’s worth taking a look at an interesting...

Most of you will have heard the idea of a “golden cross” before (where the 50 day moving average goes above the 200 day moving average),...

Sometimes you have great charts with powerful insights and clear, logical, actionable signals. Sometimes you have charts that although...

The CBOE VIX or volatility index has ground down to very low levels, and as noted in the recent S&P500 #ChartStorm a series of signals...

China reported its January inflation numbers: CPI 2.5% y/y vs 2.4% expected, 2.1% previous, and PPI 6.9% y/y vs 6.6% consensus, 5.5% in...

The January manufacturing PMI for China fell -0.1 to 51.3 and non-manufacturing PMI rose +0.1 to 54.6. In other words the rebound looks...

One of the buzz phrases of the post-crisis, low bond yields, QE world has been "the search for yield" and to be fair it has been a major...

The January round of flash manufacturing PMIs brought exactly what I was looking for - a continuation of the rebound that got underway in...

This article takes an alternative view on volatility. Rather than the usual CBOE VIX - a volatility index derived from option pricing,...

As is tradition, China's National Bureau of Statistics releases almost all of their key economic data at once, so here's a quick run down...

The European Central Bank meets today/tonight depending where you're reading! One thing that will be on their mind, whether they admit...

With most countries having reported their December inflation numbers we can review a couple of interesting charts that track the...

Here's a couple of comments and charts on a market you may not have even thought about before. Before we dive into it, I should take the...

A Bloomberg article "Unloved European Stocks Poised to Become 'Pain Trade' of 2017" prompted me to review some of our European equity...

With the latest rumblings of a "hard Brexit" hitting the wires the cable or GBPUSD has hit fresh lows. So I thought it would be worth...

A number of websites e.g. Bloomberg, Zero Hedge, have been pointing to the extreme build up in short positioning in treasury futures by...

Defining whether a benchmark or stock price is in a bull market or a bear market is not as straight forward as it might sound, there are...

China just released its December inflation numbers: Consumer Price Index (CPI) 2.1% vs 2.2% expected and 2.3% previous, Producer Price...