Explore this intriguing pattern in the S&P 500's performance over the past century, as highlighted by analyst Jay Kaeppel at Sentimentrader:
- The Mid-Decade Boost:
Remarkably, the 18-month period starting from October of a '4' ending year to March of a '6' ending year has consistently seen positive growth in the equity markets for the last ten decades
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Comparison: NASDAQ:TSLA and NYSE:PLTR S&P 500 Inclusion
Palantir Technologies is set to join the S&P 500 on September 23, 2024
This milestone mirrors Tesla's inclusion in the index back on December 21, 2020
- Tesla's Journey: Prior to its S&P 500 inclusion, Tesla's stock experienced a significant upward trend, which continued for several weeks...
A Comparative Analysis: S&P 500 SP:SPX and Federal Funds Rate - 1998 vs. 2024
Historical Context:
(the lower chart S&P 500 and federal funds rate development 1994-2004)
1998:
- On September 29, the Federal Reserve began lowering the federal funds rate from 5.5% to 5.25%
- The interest cuts fueled the tech bubble, leading to a sharp rise in the S&P 500...
The inversion of the yield curve often serves as a reliable indicator, suggesting an impending increase in the likelihood of both recession and market downturns in the foreseeable future
To track this inversion effectively, you can subtracting the interest rates of the 2-year US government bonds from those of the 10-year bonds TVC:US02Y - TVC:US10Y
When this...
With last poor earnings, Starbucks NASDAQ:SBUX generates my favorite long-term signal for potential long-term buying (Bollinger Bands torn & RSI oversold on weekly basis)
If the company gets its problems under control, there could be a reversal soon
After such negative earnings, however, the price still needs to stabilize somewhat
The stabilization of ...
AMEX:SPY is currently testing the upper falling trend line of the asymmetrical triangle
If the retest succeeds and the breakout is confirmed, then a year-end rally in the stock markets including new AMEX:SPY highs is likely
NYSE:NKE is already one step ahead and the breakout seems to have been successful
From a Fib-Retracement perspective, both CRYPTOCAP:BTC and the overall crypto market CRYPTOCAP:TOTAL are perfectly in line with a typical cycle before the next halving in April 2024
Before the last halving in May 2020, CRYPTOCAP:BTC reached the 0.618 Fib-Retracement in June 2019 and after that a correction took place
The 0.618 Fib-Retracement at ~USD48k...
The CRYPTOCAP:BTC dominance is currently very interesting to observe
CRYPTOCAP:BTC.D has just made a new local high (top image)
However, the CRYPTOCAP:BTC dominance without the stable coins is threatening to fall out of the uptrend (bottom image)
So a divergence is taking place. The money from the stables is currently being pumped mainly into altcoins and...
Like many other asset classes, TVC:SILVER is currently on the verge of breaking out of a year-long asymmetrical triangle
Silver miners AMEX:SIL are lagging the silver trend and could perform well in the near future if the silver breakout is successful
