On November 21, 2024, Citron Capital shorted MicroStrategy Inc. (MSTR). What made this confrontation particularly electrifying was the clash between two titans: Citron, a legendary short seller, and MicroStrategy, arguably the strongest stock of 2024. Why did Citron short MicroStrategy? Citron called its $91 billion valuation a reckless Bitcoin bubble. MSTR began buying Bitcoin in...

Join Tony as he walks you through a Macro Market outlook, and shares his top bearish and bullish options trading ideas. He talks growth vs. value, commodities, bonds, the Dollar Index, sectors like homebuilders and semiconductors, and stocks like NVDA, DIS, INTC, and more. This video premiered on November 26, 2024.

In this video, Dave shares how he uses the powerful ChartLists feature on StockCharts to analyze trends and momentum shifts as part of his daily, weekly, and monthly chart routines. He shows how mindful investors can use ChartLists to identify inflection points, focus on top performers, analyze performance trends, and better understand market correlations. Don’t...

As cyber threats continue to escalate globally, CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (CRWD) has emerged as a leading cybersecurity firm poised for significant growth. After an outage earlier this year, CrowdStrike’s stock price has lagged for much of 2024, but recent stock price action suggests that CRWD is potentially gearing up to break out. In this analysis,...

Good morning and welcome to this week’s Flight Path. The “Go” trend in equities has proved to be resilient as we saw strong blue “Go” bars return this week. Treasury bond prices remained in a “NoGo” although this week we did see weaker pink bars as the trend showed weakness. U.S. commodities painted strong blue “Go”...

It’s a short trading week, and the stock market is rallying. It’s clear that Wall Street liked President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Scott Bessent for Treasury Secretary.  The broader stock market indexes closed higher, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU) closing at a new record. The S&P 500 ($SPX) tried to meet its all-time...

No matter how you slice it, small and mid caps have been absolutely crushed on a relative basis since 2021. The unfortunate part about this is that most traders have recency bias. They believe whatever has been working will continue to work and things that haven’t been working should continue to be ignored. If you...

In a truncated trading week, the Indian equities closed the week with gains thanks to a robust technical rebound that it witnessed on Friday. The Nifty continued to wear a corrective look for three days; on the last trading day of the week, the Index managed to get itself into positive territory at close. Had...

In this StockCharts TV video, Mary Ellen reviews the broad-based rally that pushed the Equal-Weighted SPX to new highs. She also shared base breakouts and downtrend reversal candidates in the now hot Retail space, and takes a close look at 3 old school stocks that are seeing AI-related growth. This video originally premiered November 22, 2024....

I’ve always found technical analysis to be a fantastic history lesson for the markets. If you want to consider how the current conditions relate to previous market cycles, just compare the charts; you’ll usually have a pretty good starting point for the discussion. As we near the end of an incredibly bullish year for the S&P...