So Much for ‘Only the Mag 7 Matter’
There’s a lot of winning going on in the stock market right now. As of this morning, more stocks on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) are in uptrends than at any point since 2024. That’s worth pausing on. Just…
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Does This Bull Market Have a Divergence Problem?
We’ve been in a raging bull market for stocks, and suddenly this week everyone’s telling me we’re finally getting “confirmation” of it. That’s interesting, because just two or three months ago the narrative could not have been more different. Back…
Angry Consumers. Happy Stocks.
There’s been so much winning lately that it’s almost hard to keep track. Stocks have been posting historic numbers year after year, and 2026 has picked up right where the last few left off. At the same time, something interesting…
If This Is a Bubble, I’d Like a Refund
Businessweek is out with a cover warning investors to “Beware the Bubble” and teaching you how to “survive” the year ahead, as if investing has suddenly turned into some kind of apocalyptic endurance test. This is a real magazine. With…
The Books That Shaped My Life
I hated reading when I was younger. I didn’t have the attention span, and I definitely didn’t have the interest to make it through an entire book, let alone a chapter. All I wanted to do was play baseball. That…
Small-Caps Just Made History. Breadth Doom Didn’t.
The Russell 2000 closed yesterday at the highest level in its history. That matters. This index includes 2,000 stocks and represents roughly two-thirds of the Russell 3000, the broadest measure of U.S. equities. When small-cap stocks are making new all-time…
Jan Brady Just Made a New All-Time High
Mid-cap stocks broke out to all-time highs yesterday. That’s new. And it matters. We’ve spent plenty of time talking about large caps making record highs. The S&P 500 keeps doing what healthy bull markets do: pushing into uncharted territory. Small…
The Dumbest Smart Critique in Finance
There’s a line that smart people love to repeat, usually without thinking very hard about it: “The problem with technical analysis is that it only looks at information from the past.” I’ve heard this for decades. And every time I…
Exxon Doesn’t Hate It
Nobody likes energy stocks. And it’s not hard to see why. For most investors, energy has been a graveyard since the Great Financial Crisis. While other sectors delivered life-changing returns, energy quietly went nowhere. On a total-return basis, the energy…
Fighting Trends Isn’t a Strategy. It’s a Personality Flaw.
It’s funny. During every bull market, I inevitably get labeled a “permabull,” usually by people who spend their time fighting trends instead of participating in them. They want me to turn bearish while prices are going up, largely because they’ve…
Before You Call a Top, Check the Sectors
After three consecutive years of record-breaking gains for U.S. stocks, a lot of people have reached the same conclusion: A major bear market has to be next. I think everybody’s wrong. That’s not how markets actually work. We’ve already lived…
The Calendar Reset. The Trends Didn’t.
2025 is officially in the books. Whether it was a great year for you or a frustrating one doesn’t really matter anymore. The calendar has flipped. The scoreboard has been reset. Onward. But here’s the mistake people make every January:…