This week was a reminder that the market is still capable of fast moves. And although its been rangebound for most of the year, an uptick in volatility may be a sign that it is ready to make a move. All the more reason to stay focused and tune out the noise.
Enjoy this week’s “Top Trading Links” – there’s a lot of good reads
MARKET INSIGHTS
@fabiancapital shares ’The state of the market’.
Is the S&P 500 in a stealth bear market via @RyanDetrick.
The tech market is-a-rhyming:
check out the similarities of $SMH in late June vs $QQQ today, eerily similar!
— Brian Shannon, CMT (@alphatrends) Aug. 6 at 05:41 PM
@KimbleCharting notes this 40 year trend line in Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index:
@michaelbatnick discusses the fallibility of investing in a normal environment:
“One of the biggest psychological challenges of investing is that there is always something out of the norm”
What opportunity cost is and means to @allstarcharts.
The S&P 500’s longest consolidation in 65 years via @mikeharrisNY.
Energy is ready for a countertrend rally via @bartscharts:
@howoftrading goes in depth on visualization in this video:
A great insight from The Leuthold Group:
Last phase of #bullmarket tends to be especially cordial to relative strength or momentum-oriented strategies #stocks pic.twitter.com/M9vaswcpLC
— The Leuthold Group (@LeutholdGroup) July 22, 2015
@corymitc on a key day trading setup.
NEWS & RESEARCH
Be sure to check out The Best of See It Market in July for tons of incredible research.
The increased use of analytics across the manufacturing world eventually leads to a leaning up phase, right?
”A large majority of teen social media users agree that people get to show different sides of themselves on social media that they cannot show offline” – via Pew Research Center
Creativity and the brain via National Endowment For The Arts
“The networked world approach is based on a very different idea. It does not begin with utopian goals or resources captured through specific promises or threats. Instead it begins with open-ended, pragmatic tinkering that thrives on the unexpected. The process is not even recognizable as a problem-solving mechanism at first glance” – via Breaking Smart
The character strengths most predictive of well-being.
I’m making sure to read all the books on this list.
How to become a ‘super learner’ via @AdamHGrimes
Thanks for reading! Be sure to check out our Top Trading Links archives for a goldmine of investing research and trading education.
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