by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 23, 2023 | Indicator Insights
When we think about what drives stock market returns, earnings come to mind. This makes sense. The stock market is comprised of businesses, and the goal of those businesses is to make money—or earnings. On a stock exchange, buyers and sellers come together to...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 16, 2023 | Indicator Insights
We’ve received some good news about the state of the economy recently. For example, the nonfarm payrolls report for January revealed that the U.S. economy added 517,000 net new jobs last month. This was way higher than the expected 185,000 jobs. And on top of...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 9, 2023 | Indicator Insights
An important commodity-based inflation indicator that we highlighted a few months back recently fell out of its high negative zone—a sign that inflation has likely peaked and that stock market returns could be stronger going forward. This specific indicator...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Feb 2, 2023 | Indicator Insights
Sometimes the stock market is quiet, and there isn’t a whole lot of price movement in either direction. But other times, the market gets excited and surges powerfully in a particular direction. We call this sharp shift in sentiment a “thrust.” One of our...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jan 26, 2023 | Indicator Insights
Big Mo, or “Big Momentum,” is an indicator we use to measure the trend and momentum of the stock market. It’s one of the best tools around for measuring the technical health of the broader equity market. It does this by combining over 100 component indicators...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jan 19, 2023 | Indicator Insights
For this week’s featured indicator, I’d like to revisit a tool we use to measure the long-term “trend” or direction of the stock market. It’s called a deviation-from-trend indicator. It gets this name because it looks at how the stock market is trending over...
