Category Archives: False Breakout

This Is the Only Trigger I Know Of That Predicted the 2020 Crash… What’s It Saying Today?

Posted on March 30, 2022 by The Phoenix

By Graham Summers, MBA Thus far this week, we’ve been noting an extremely odd development. And it’s left strategic investors feeling uneasy to say the least. Stocks, the asset class most investors pay attention to, have erupted higher. Indeed, if you only … Continue reading →

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Stocks, Treasuries, and the VIX Suggest a Pullback… But Will It be another Crash?

Posted on April 16, 2020 by The Phoenix

The rally is now in serious trouble. Stocks staged a sharp bounce after the early to mid -arch meltdown. However, they’re running into trouble at the 50% retracement level (2,790 on the S&P 500). This is bad news. Typically, during … Continue reading →

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Stocks Are Struggling… Will We Revisit the Lows?

Posted on April 16, 2020 by The Phoenix

The rally is now in serious trouble. Stocks staged a sharp bounce after the early to mid -arch meltdown. However, they’re running into trouble at the 50% retracement level (2,790 on the S&P 500). This is bad news. Typically, during … Continue reading →

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Three Charts Every “Buy the Dip” Investor Needs to See Today

Posted on April 16, 2020 by The Phoenix

The rally is now in serious trouble. Stocks staged a sharp bounce after the early to mid -arch meltdown. However, they’re running into trouble at the 50% retracement level (2,790 on the S&P 500). This is bad news. Typically, during … Continue reading →

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Are the Markets Signaling Another Leg Down is Here?

Posted on April 14, 2020 by The Phoenix

Wall Street begins reporting earnings for the first quarter this week. Everyone expects earnings will be a disaster. After all, the economy first slowed, then ground to a complete halt last quarter. The issue now, as far as traders are … Continue reading →

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Stocks Are Struggling While Bonds Are Near All-Time Highs= Another Drop Coming?

Posted on April 14, 2020 by The Phoenix

Wall Street begins reporting earnings for the first quarter this week. Everyone expects earnings will be a disaster. After all, the economy first slowed, then ground to a complete halt last quarter. The issue now, as far as traders are … Continue reading →

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The big development in the last week has been that institutional sellers have hit the market. For the last six months stocks have gradually grinded higher with every dip being both small in size and aggressively bought. This was a … Continue reading →

Posted on February 26, 2020 by The Phoenix | Comments Off on It’s Not Time to Panic… It’s Almost Time to Buy

The market got hit yesterday in a big way, but the selling was well contained. Traders have become way too conditioned to the market doing nothing but going up. As a result, we are in the ridiculous state in which even a single … Continue reading →

Posted on February 25, 2020 by The Phoenix | Comments Off on There is Still Some Downside Potential, But After That Stocks ROAR Higher

Please Focus on Stocks Hitting All Time Highs… Don’t Read This

Posted on July 2, 2019 by The Phoenix

Yesterday’s market action was a MAJOR wake up call. Stocks erupted 1.5% higher on announcements that the US/ China reached some form of a trade deal… However, the rally barely lasted, giving up most of its gains by mid-day. It … Continue reading →

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What If Stocks Are Wrong About Rate Cuts?

Posted on June 11, 2019 by The Phoenix

Stocks have now cleared the all-important level of 2,900 on the S&P 500. The index just peeked above critical resistance (top red line in the chart below). Overbought and overextended, stocks are now due for a correction/ consolidation. It would … Continue reading →

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Will Breakdown Lead the Overall Market Lower? $AMZN $SPX

Posted on September 19, 2018 by The Phoenix

The single most important stock in the world is Amazon (AMZN) AMZN has become a proxy for the entire stock market. If you overlay AMZN’s chart with the S&P 500 (below) AMZN has lead the S&P 500 beautifully during this … Continue reading →

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The Most Important Stock In the World Just Broke Its Trendline

Posted on September 19, 2018 by The Phoenix

The single most important stock in the world is Amazon (AMZN) AMZN has become a proxy for the entire stock market. If you overlay AMZN’s chart with the S&P 500 (below) AMZN has lead the S&P 500 beautifully during this … Continue reading →

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I Keep Warning And Warning… But No One’s Listening

Posted on September 18, 2018 by The Phoenix

I keep warning and warning… but no one is listening. The market meltdown that started in Emerging Markets earlier this year WILL spread to the US. Don’t believe me? The FANG stocks, which lead the rally throughout 2008 (indeed by … Continue reading →

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Warning: The S&P 500 Has Formed a VERY Dangerous Price Pattern

Posted on September 18, 2018 by The Phoenix

I keep warning and warning… but no one is listening. The market meltdown that started in Emerging Markets earlier this year WILL spread to the US. Don’t believe me? The FANG stocks, which lead the rally throughout 2008 (indeed by … Continue reading →

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Will the Markets Follow FANG Stocks Into a Collapse?

Posted on September 18, 2018 by The Phoenix

I keep warning and warning… but no one is listening. The market meltdown that started in Emerging Markets earlier this year WILL spread to the US. Don’t believe me? The FANG stocks, which lead the rally throughout 2008 (indeed by … Continue reading →

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The Best Part: 99% of Investors Won’t See This Coming

Posted on September 18, 2018 by The Phoenix

I keep warning and warning… but no one is listening. The market meltdown that started in Emerging Markets earlier this year WILL spread to the US. Don’t believe me? The FANG stocks, which lead the rally throughout 2008 (indeed by … Continue reading →

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Three Charts That Tell Me The Markets Are About to Turn

Posted on August 27, 2018 by The Phoenix

The markets are beginning to anticipate a weak $USD. First and foremost, the Emerging Market ETF (EEM) is in the process of bottoming. EEM was crushed by the $USD’s strength this summer. But it’s now starting to look like a … Continue reading →

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Did the US Dollar Just Post the Biggest Head Fake in History?

Posted on August 27, 2018 by The Phoenix

The US Dollar is “telling” the markets what’s coming. First and foremost, the Emerging Market ETF (EEM) is in the process of bottoming. EEM was crushed by the $USD’s strength this summer. But it’s now starting to look like a … Continue reading →

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Take a Look At What Emerging Markets Are Saying About the US Dollar

Posted on August 27, 2018 by The Phoenix

The markets are beginning to anticipate a weak $USD. First and foremost, the Emerging Market ETF (EEM) is in the process of bottoming. EEM was crushed by the $USD’s strength this summer. But it’s now starting to look like a … Continue reading →

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Two Major Reasons Why the US Dollar Will Soon Drop Hard

Posted on August 23, 2018 by The Phoenix

I’ve received a number of emails from readers asking me how I can be so certain that the $USD will be dropping hard going forward. The answer is simple… neither the US Government, not the US corporate sector can afford … Continue reading →

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