2018: Return to Normalcy
Why 2018 in Markets Feels So Awful We’re back to normal after 2017, an idyllic outlier in many respects. Bloomberg, April 18, 2018....
Q1 2018 Was All About Volatility
Markets Stopped Being Boring in the First Quarter After February, investors started freaking over almost everything. Bloomberg, March 29,...
Bull Markets Can’t Start Until Bear Markets End
Pick Another Day to Celebrate the Bull Market’s Birthday Yes, the lows were on this day in March 2009. But the next...
When Bear Markets End
click for ginormous chart Source: RWM, Bloomberg There are many reasons why I believe you should not date bull markets from...
How Do Record-setting S&P 500 Streaks End?
Source: Bloomberg Via Dave Wilson: The longest-ever streak without a 5 percent drop in the S&P 500 Index may end with...
Before Computers Ruled Finance
Ed Mendel first met Ned Davis in the 1970s at J.C. Bradford & Company, a traditional broker dealer. The 1970s-bear market was in full...
Transcript: MiB with Ed Mendel of Ned Davis Research
The transcript from this week’s MiB podcast with Ed Mendel is below. You can stream/download the full conversation, including...
MiB: Ed Mendel of Ned Davis Research
This week, we sit down for a conversation with Ed Mendel, co-founder of Ned Davis Research Group; Mendel was one of the very...
2017 Was a Technically Unusual Year
Taking Stock of a Very Weird Year in Markets Rarely have investors had such consistent, steady gains. That bodes well for the future....
When Overbought is Bullish
Interesting chart from John Lynch Chief Investment Strategist and Ryan Detrick, CMT Senior Market Strategist, LPL Financial discussing...