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J. Clinton Hill is the owner of Hillbent. Hillbent focuses on capital markets strategies and provides decision support research and timing analytics to professional and self-directed self-directed investors. Given the dynamic nature of markets, flexibility, with a bent for contrarian and ...more

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TMI Market Notes: How Bad Can It Get Or How Bad Can It Be?
The S&P 500 is currently testing support at the lower range of its short-term bullish channel and two recently previous support levels.
TMI Market Notes: Overbought Market Consolidating But Vulnerable To Correction
Stocks eked out paltry gains and consolidated within a technically overbought market condition.
TMI Market Notes: Overbought Stock Market Confirmed By Buyer Apathy
As predicted or anticipated yesterday, equity markets are beginning to weaken in the midst of an overbought market condition.
TMI Market Notes: Market Gets High On The Latest CPI
The fireworks have begun in earnest after the release of today’s CPI data. Look for the excitement to continue tomorrow and finish with a final bang from the PPI.
Qualifying And Quantifying Current Equity Market Risks
The best way to manage stock market risks, besides constantly evaluating the underlying facts supporting them, is to monitor the technical condition, which is robustly bullish.
Weekly Capital Markets Technical Analysis Summary: June 2, 2017
US Equity indexes continued to make new highs, with exception of the Transports which are attempting a key bullish reversal after a recent price correction.
Tuesday’s Markets Pause For The Fed’s Cause
The markets appear to have hit the pause button as they await the outcome of today’s start of the FOMC’s 2-day meeting and this Sunday’s presidential election in France.
Despite Fed’s “Last Call”, US Stocks Advance On ECB’s QE After-Party
US stocks continued advancing despite the Fed’s having given several “last calls” in preparation to shut down this party. The Dow-30 Industrials, SP-500, and Russell-2000 made new record highs.
High P/E Market Valuations Misleading Trump’s Chumps
Today I will address the high P/E market valuations, which I believe may be misleading US stock investors into being Trump’s chumps.
One Trillion Dollars Is Trump Change For The Markets
Today, CNBC reported that the combined increase for the S&P 500 Large-caps, S&P 400 Mid-caps and S&P 600 Small-caps has been over $1 Trillion since the US 2016 presidential election. That’s not chump change gentle readers. That’s Trump change!
Strong GDP & Consumer Confidence Help US Equities Rebound
All the major US equity indexes- e.g. SP-500, Nasdaq-100 and Dow-30 Industrials -rebounded from yesterday’s losses. The one lone exception was the Russell-2000, which is beginning to negatively diverge from the broader markets.
Russell 2000 ETF Market Shows Weaker Stock Investor Appetite
Investors appeared to show signs of a sated appetite for US equities. Small-cap stocks, as represented by the Russell-2000, fared 3 to 4 times worse than their larger-cap brethren.
Gold Bulls Punked On Fears Of Fundamentally Stronger US Dollar
Gold bulls have been retreating in earnest over the last two months. The rally in Gold, when compared to performance of a fundamentally stronger US Dollar, appears to have been more of a short-term cyclical event.
Post-Thanksgiving ETF Investment Market Summary
At some point, investors will have their fill of stocks and undergo a bad case of indigestion when it comes to reconciling the differences between expectations and reality.
View From The Hill: 5 Fundamental Perceptions Raising Trump’s Market Reality Ratings
With exception to the Nasdaq-100, the Dow-30 Industrials, SP-500 and Russell-2000 continue to make new highs. Unlike most of the international markets, US stocks are trending upward and displaying remarkable relative strength.
Trump-Fed Market Momentum Will Eventually Wane
The bullish momentum in the US Dollar (UUP) and Russell-2000 Small-Caps (IWM) continues, while investors rush for the exits on longer-term Treasury bonds (TLT).
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