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…
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:…
If this market really looked like 1999 or 2008, the evidence would already be obvious. It would show up in narrowing participation. Fewer stocks going up. More divergences beneath the surface. Leadership breaking down while the headlines stayed optimistic. That’s…
The bond market has quietly faded into the background. After years of volatility, rate shock, and endless macro debates, bonds have become… boring. Flat. Forgotten. Barely part of the daily market conversation anymore. And that’s exactly why they matter. Because…
As we come out of the holidays and turn the calendar, it’s worth remembering where we are in the Presidential Cycle. We’re entering the midterm year – Year 2 of the four-year cycle – and historically, this has been the…
I’ve got three charts for you today – and they matter. Two of them help explain where the market is right now. The third may give us a glimpse of where it’s headed next. That’s how market analysis works. We…
Founder’s Note: Jason Perz is going to share things nobody else in this business is going to share – about himself, about the market, about how to get better. We talk a lot about “doing the work” here at TrendLabs.…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average just closed at a new all-time high. Not a 52-week high. Not an intraday blip. An all-time closing high. This is an index that dates back to the late 1800s. In all those decades –…
Last Christmas, TrendLabs was still just a dream. This Christmas, it’s being fulfilled. Everybody’s Wrong was and will remain my first statement on the stock market under the TrendLabs banner. It’s the flagship, you make it sail, and I’d like…
The S&P 500 just closed at another new all-time high. Again. That’s exactly the kind of behavior you expect in a healthy bull market. New highs don’t show up once – they tend to cluster. Another hallmark of strong bull…
I’ll be the first to admit it: I’m old school when it comes to market analysis. I was trained by traders who, in some cases, cut their teeth in the 1950s and ’60s. And they learned from people who were…
From where I’m sitting, this is still a “risk-on” market. And the market itself is the one telling us. In healthy environments, the leadership comes from offense — growth, cyclicals, and higher-beta stocks. That’s exactly what we’re seeing. Meanwhile, the…
