Ryan Puplava's Blog

Between September and January, investors take place in a very ritualistic ceremony in which they comb their portfolio looking for losers, and then dump them. There’s a name for this ritual and it is called, tax-loss selling. Sentiment towards these stocks can bottom eventually and support levels form.

Recent developments in horizontal drilling technology have revolutionized an already revolutionized and unconventional way of drilling. I’m not exactly sure which company founded the technology, but...

Despite the higher highs and higher lows, it’s pretty clear that stocks are consolidating. RSI support continues to hold in bullish territory above 40 on corrections.

Rotation is to the stock market what location is to real estate. With the outperformance of cyclical stocks over non-cyclicals this summer, analysts are posing the question, “Is it time to rotate into staples?”

Exxon and Chevron comprise 30% of the energy sector ETF (XLE), masking the true and stellar performance of energy stocks this summer. In addition, there's a new "technical renaissance" taking place that's giving some energy stocks a nice lift.

One of the concepts I’ve discussed over the past couple of years has been the flow of funds into bonds, a result most notably tied to demographics and two bear markets. It appears that with the leading economic indicators turning around, causing rates to rise, that after five years investors are finally starting to believe in the U.S.

Last week, I said that buyers are on vacation. I could list a number of talking points right now to explain why the market has corrected 5% or less from the all-time high...

Regardless of today’s halting of NASDAQ stocks, buyers have been absent from the market tape and that’s the main source of the market weakness over the past few weeks – not deleveraging.

On a purely technical basis, gold has signaled a reversal of its downtrend today. It needed to get above $1350, and today’s close has achieved that target. Gold’s break above $1350 confirms the higher low that was made last week.

When I listen to commentary about the markets, one of the biggest concerns I hear is that higher rates will derail the economic recovery. Housing will top. The gravy train for financials (refinancing loans) will lose steam.