Hey traders! This week, I wanted to highlight analysis from my friend and well-respected colleague, Mary Ellen McGonagle! She primarily focuses on stocks with a 2-week to 9-month horizon depending on market conditions. Check out her guest newsletter below to learn more. These Macro Signals Will Help Your Portfolio Management With the broader markets in a … Read more

The summertime rally has been strong and sweet, but unfortunately, I think Jerome Powell put an end to that on Friday. The market has rallied largely off of hopes and dreams that lower inflationary data in July would lead to the Fed slowing down and potentially cutting rates come early 2023. However, I think after Powell’s … Read more

A Bullish Stock in a Bear Market Despite the rally we have seen the past several weeks, the underlying cracks in the market remain, many of which have become even more apparent on earnings. However, that hasn’t been the case for all companies. In fact, many companies within the energy and consumer staples spaces have … Read more

The Sector SPDR Trust Energy ETF – XLE There isn’t much I like here on the buy side, even after this pullback, but I do have a keen focus on the energy sector for a couple of different reasons. The sector has been exhibiting relative strength all year, it has experienced a solid pullback and … Read more

Earnings Results vs. Reactions When Results and Reactions Don’t Match Going into earnings season, investors (myself included) were weighed down by the pervasiveness of negative fundamental data that was surely going to have a negative impact on earnings season. We knew that inflation was high. We knew that consumers were getting squeezed by that in … Read more