The S&P E-mini closed the session with a bullish engulfing candle yesterday and has broken to an intraday high in Asia, on the back of positive news on the US-China trade negotiations.

For a change, a look at my short positions related by their industry.

They say the hardest trade is the best trade…and the hardest trade to do these days is to short a stock. There hasn’t been even a 5% correction in the market for nearly two years now.

The market is still in the throes of this unexpected (and, to me, inexplicable) Trump-gasm, but to my eyes are there far, far better opportunities on the short side of the market than the long.

Today's watch list includes: Bank of America, Regions Financial, Assurant, Torchmark and NetApp.

Out of 60 different companies evaluated this week to determine whether they are suitable for Defensive Investors or Enterprising Investors only 21 were found to be undervalued or fairly valued and suitable for both kinds of investor.

The average mid cap stock in our coverage is trading -19.78% below its 52 week high, 5.95% above its 200 dma, has 6.49 days to cover held short, and is expected to grow its EPS by 16.3% in the coming year.

The average mid cap score is 55.09 and that's below the four week average mid cap score of 56.53.

Goodyear Tire still leads our top-ten list, but we also have three new stocks.

The only areas I'm bullish on are bonds and precious metals. I think Financials are the new Energy.

Here’s a summary of the 20 best stocks for value investors from the week’s ModernGraham valuations.

Assurant, Inc. had pre-announced that their Health segment was experiencing adverse conditions during Q1, and that management was looking into strategic alternatives for both their Health and Employee Benefits divisions.

Well, there is no escape from Dow Jones Composite Average. Ever since November 10 of last year, we've been bouncing inside this pattern; pretty much hanging round 6400 and weird 6409 right now.

Excited that midcaps finally broke - here are 7 of my favorite shorts.

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Today I used Barchart to sort the S&P 500 Large Cap Index stocks to find the ones with the worst technical sell signals.