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Of the five FAANG Tech stocks, Netflix (NFLX) has enormously outperformed its counterparts on a percentage-gained basis, from the beginning of 2013 onward, as shown on the following two 5-Year graphs.
NFLX continues to keep pace, percentage-wise, with the other four, as shown on the Year-to-date graph below. (more…)
Good morning, everyone. These three-day weekends always mess me up, because I’m going to spend all day thinking today is Monday, tomorrow is Tuesday, and so forth. It’s kind of like jet lag, except on a daily basis.
In any case, I’m excited about the trading day. I’ve got 48 short positions, and many dozens more I plan to enter. Crude oil is especially encouraging………..
A few of you wrote me over the weekend to mention a tiny, obscure, completely unimportant bug in SlopeCharts which was that the price bars were invisible (ahem). This was affecting some new users, and we managed to track down and zap the bug on Memorial Day, so it’s all better now.
I say this because I know from experience if one person writes about a problem, there are 50 others who didn’t bother. Thus, for those of you who experienced trouble with the charts, please give ’em another try, because the super-deluxe feature of the price bars actually showing up is now functioning. (Although I confess I was considering making it a PLUS-only membership privilege).
NFTRH’s ‘Currencies’ segment (one among a report filled with critical insight across all major market segments and many of the stocks therein) went off its usual brief message and riffed into some macro discussion on inflation’s post-2011 path. Excerpted from the May 28th edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole…
Uncle Buck’s index is weak and the SMA 50 is crossing below the SMA 200. Before long we will be reading about it in the media. Now let’s consider a theme we’ve promoted for years; when the media trumpet a “DEATH CROSS!” * it is time to brace for the opposite implication to the media’s bearish promotion. Our view has after all, included a decline to the mid-90s for the index. Meanwhile, USD/JPY is decent right at the SMA 50, USD/EUR and USD/CHF are at lateral support and USD is at least neutral vs. the Commodity currencies. (more…)
