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CONCLUSION—Market Climate is Worsening During the first quarter of this year, the average equity exposure in our tactical accounts was 70%, reflecting a moderately bullish outlook.  That has changed significantly in the past four weeks, starting with a SELL signal from one of our longer term models below.  Two other intermediate models for the stock […]

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This quarter, we’d like to focus a bit on the growing incidents of cyber fraud, and some of the steps you can take to minimize problems in this area. Also featured is an updated chart on the Median Price/Earnings Ratio of the S&P 500, along with a reminder about market predictions. Finally, there’s the usual […]

Steve Medland was a guest expert on Exit Coach Radio and discussed the challenges and opportunities that the Millionaire Next Door faces. ExitCoachRadio.com was founded by Bill Black, a Certified Exit Planner who has been helping business owners plan for their Succession and Business Exit for over 30 years. To listen to Steve Medland’s interview, […]

CONCLUSION—Still Bullish, But Some Divergences Growing Let’s keep it simple.  Several stock indexes, including the S&P 500, S&P 400 Mid-Cap Index and the NY Composite, have made new all-time highs in the past few days.  This has been confirmed by various Advance/Decline lines, as shown in the chart below, courtesy of www.stockcharts.com. As noted previously, […]

Steve Medland appeared as a guest expert for 35 minutes to answer callers’ questions on the Your Money radio show:  “You read a lot about the U.S. budget and policy, but have you ever wondered how these stories directly affect you? Each week, Wharton economist and public policy expert Kent Smetters gets to the bottom […]

Conclusion – Range Bound Until Broken The characteristics we’ve written about the past two months for the U.S. stock market remain in place—a bull market until proven otherwise, with a fairly narrow range, and the NY Advance/Decline Line making another new high as recently as April 15. Trading during the past two months has been […]

TABR has released the March 2015 Newsletter. Download TABR Quarterly Newsletter here.

CONCLUSION—The Same as Last Month Not much has changed since our mid-month update in February—a mostly bullish stock market environment, until proven otherwise.  We have been in a trading range since mid-November, with an upward bias.  The S&P 500 dropped -3.54% from February 24 to March 11, but has recovered almost all of that in […]

CONCLUSION—Trading Range, But Mostly Bullish Until Proven Otherwise Most stock indexes were down about -3% in January, and this brought out the chorus of “as January goes, so goes the rest of the year.”  But that calendar anomaly has not worked in recent years, and here we are, two weeks into Febuary, and the losses […]