Journalists are excellent at telling compelling stories about what already happened. They’re great at capturing the mood. What people are worried about. What they’re afraid about. What they’re scared of missing or terrified of losing. That’s their job, and they’re…
Founder’s Note: Sam Gatlin has already shown himself to be one of the most reflective technicians working in the stock market today. Sam absorbs information, processes it, and makes it his own as quick as anybody I’ve met in this…
Technology stocks are still going higher. Just not the ones everyone keeps pointing at. The familiar leaders have been stuck. The Nasdaq 100 hasn’t made a new high since October. Same story for the large-cap S&P 500 IT Index. If…
If stocks are about to come under real pressure, you’re going to see it in credit. That’s how markets work. The bond market is much larger than the stock market. When the world’s biggest institutions start to feel stress, when…
One of the biggest themes I’m focused on as we start the new year is the growing dominance of international equities relative to U.S. stocks. Consider this for a moment. In 2025, the S&P 500 gained roughly 17%. By any…
It doesn’t matter what other people do with their money. That’s none of my business. For a lot of people, that’s a hard idea to accept. They worry about what their neighbors own. They think about what their coworkers are…
For a long time, the story was simple. A handful of mega-cap stocks were doing all the work, dragging the market higher while everything else lagged behind. That story hasn’t really changed in people’s minds. But the market itself has…
Many of the most successful people I know read a lot of books. Unfortunately, many of the people I know who feel stuck in their jobs, unsure about their careers, and frustrated by what they do not know rarely read…
Founder’s Note: You’re about to read one of the best lessons about how markets process complex information in real time you’ll ever get. That’s what Jason Perz does… he takes on hard challenges and makes them seem a lot easier. …
The small-cap stocks with the “good” fundamentals are finally starting to participate. Until recently, leadership in small caps was coming almost entirely from indexes that didn’t care whether companies made money or not. If you were small enough, you were…
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…
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…
