Cristofer Sheridan's Blog

Nov 21 – The October correction, now followed by a double-dip into late-November, has pulled the market’s monthly momentum into negative territory. Though seasonality favors a year-end rally, with the long-term MACD for the S&P 500 now making a bearish crossover...

By Cris Sheridan – There’s no such thing as a “holy grail” for stock market indicators but, when it comes to risk management and knowing whether to scale in or out of the market, these two are pretty high on my list for whether we are looking at a major...

By Cris Sheridan – When it comes to predicting or tracking the formation of a major stock market peak, one technical indicator to keep on your radar is a long-term MACD, which stands for moving average convergence divergence. As of today, we are...

By Cris Sheridan – Though US GDP jumped to 4.1% for the second quarter of 2018, our Financial Sense Leading Economic Index suggests slightly lower growth in the second half. Furthermore, inflationary pressures are likely to continue building...

AI has already proven itself superior at chess, Jeopardy, Go, trading on the stock market, and all sorts of other tasks we take for granted. However, the next major paradigm shift, which will cause the whole world to marvel at what AI is capable of, will be when it designs...

It only took a month. CNNMoney's Fear & Greed Index was at Extreme Fear early November just as US voters were thinking about who to elect as their next president. Today, it's back to Extreme Greed as the animal spirits run wild with Trump's proposals for trillion-dollar...

Fears over a possible Brexit this Thursday have pushed speculative gold bets by non-commercial traders (“dumb money”) to the highest level in twenty years. Commercial traders (“smart money”), on the other hand, are the most net short since gold peaked in 2011...

The head of Germany's financial regulatory authority is sounding the alarm on Brexit risks to large German banks. Two banks cited as having the largest business dealings in London are Deutsche Bank (DB) and Commerzbank (CRZBY), with shares of DB breaking to new all-time lows...

“We are only beginning to understand on how subtle a communication system the functioning of an advanced industrial society is based—a communications system which we call the market and which turns out to be a more efficient mechanism for digesting dispersed..."

Global liquidity continues to contract as measured by the BofA Merrill Lynch Global Liquidity Tracker in Bloomberg. Unless the Fed reverses course, we expect this measure to deteriorate further. On a positive note, the Conference Board's US Leading Economic Index is still...