by Chris Kimble | Oct 25, 2024 | Kimble Charting
The stock market performs best when risky assets are being bought by investors. This is what investors call “risk on”, as it points to the animal spirits that often fuel bull markets. Today we highlight one of those risky assets (junk bonds) and compare it to the...
by Chris Kimble | Jan 3, 2024 | Kimble Charting
Several risk on indicators surged higher into year-end, such as small-cap stocks and junk bonds. And as we typically see, this coincided with a big year-end stock market rally. Today, we take a look at the Junk Bonds ETF (JNK) to see if this is sustainable into Q1 of...
by Chris Kimble | Oct 3, 2023 | Kimble Charting
There are several indicators to watch when assessing risk across the financial markets, and today we discuss one of the more important ones. Junk bonds. When junk bonds are performing well and in demand, that is a sign of “risk-on”. But when they are under-performing,...
by Chris Kimble | Jun 12, 2023 | Kimble Charting
Successful traders and investors tend to watch junk bonds performance to understand when the financial market is bullish (junk bonds do well) versus when the market is bearish (junk bonds don’t do well). Today’s chart was created at Marketsmith.com Looking at...
by Chris Kimble | Feb 17, 2023 | Kimble Charting
You will often hear us talk about the market giving “risk on” or “risk off” signals. In general, investors want to see “risk on” assets performing well. This includes tech stocks, growth stocks, small cap stocks, and high yield / junk bonds. Today, we focus on junk...
by Chris Kimble | Oct 28, 2022 | Kimble Charting
With yields trading at elevated levels and stocks trading at depressed levels, it makes sense that junk bonds are not faring well this year. BUT they are trying to re-group for a potential rally… and stock bulls would love to see risk-on “junk” rally. They have their...
by Chris Kimble | Sep 29, 2022 | Kimble Charting
When stocks are showing weakness, we can learn a lot by watching the credit markets. And in today’s case, Junk Bonds and the ETF $JNK. Better yet, today we share 2 charts to better illustrate was is happening in the broader markets. The first chart is the Junk Bonds...
by Chris Kimble | Aug 31, 2022 | Kimble Charting
Stocks have been tumbling lately and several indexes are trading in oversold territory on a short-term basis. BUT, the bigger picture continues to be troubling. And one trading ETF / indicator that highlights this is the popular Junk Bond ETF (JNK). Above is the...
