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Market Conviction Weak

In The Highstreet Group by John Bartoletta

The S&P 500 and the Dow Industrials have recently been among the strongest of the major indexes, with the Transports, Small-Cap, and Utilities now falling behind the performance of the senior indexes anywhere between 3% and 10%. This lack of …

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Equity Complacency

In The Highstreet Group by John Bartoletta

Despite the S&P and NASDAQ touching new highs on Monday, we think the overall trend of volatility continues to provide very little clarity for market direction. In addition, the Dow Industrials are also trading just below their highs and while …

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Equities Range Bound

In The Highstreet Group by John Bartoletta

The stock market indexes are poised for a down week, but remain in longer-term bull trends, in our opinion. At this time, it is not possible to say where the pullback will bottom, but the support levels are at around …

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FED & Yield Curve

In The Highstreet Group by John Bartoletta

Reduced concern about a Fed rate hike should provide underlying support for stocks but undercut dollar near-term — The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on Wednesday met market expectations by dropping the “patience” language from its post-meeting statement. The Fed …

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Breakout & Continuation

In The Highstreet Group by John Bartoletta

The major stock market indexes continue the same trend as they have over the last few months. Daily volatility is increasing as the equity markets creep higher and continues to build a technical trading range pattern that will eventually give …

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S&P Continuation

In The Highstreet Group by John Bartoletta

U.S. equity markets reached an all-time high on February 24. If recent patterns persist, the market is due for another rally. The corrections of February 2014 and October 2014 have been aggressive tests, but not failures, of intermediate-term support. A …

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Secular Bull

In The Highstreet Group by John Bartoletta

Market Strategy: Entering a new 16 to 18 year Secular Bull Market. This report reflects our long-term secular and short-term cyclical market cycle strategy. For the past five years we have been forecasting the end of a (16 to 18 …