by Chris Kimble | Oct 13, 2016 | Kimble Charting
Small Caps (Russell 2000) have often sent quality Risk On/Risk Off messages to big caps. Are small caps sending a “Risk Off” message again? Below looks at the Russell 2000/S&P 500 Ratio over the past 5-years, highlighting that the ratio could be at an...
by Chris Kimble | May 17, 2016 | Kimble Charting
Over the past year, a few sectors (Transports, Bio-Tech, Banks and Russell 2000) have been weaker than the broad markets. For the broad market to move higher, “Risk On” traders/investors want these weak sectors, to start reflecting some strength. Below...
by Chris Kimble | Feb 1, 2016 | Kimble Charting
CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE We all know by now the year got off to a rough start in stock markets around the world. Transports and Russell 2000 are the leaders to the downside over the past 90-days. The declines of late took both of them down to 5-year rising channels,...
by Chris Kimble | Jan 23, 2016 | Kimble Charting
One trend is clear, over the past 90-days, stocks have been soft. Below looks at what markets have been the weakest, during the past 90-days. CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE The two “downside leaders” are Transports and Small Caps (Russell 2000). So lets take a...
by Chris Kimble | Jan 21, 2016 | Kimble Charting
Small Caps/Russell 2000 started diverging against the broad market last year (falling more than the S&P). The table below compares the performance of the S&P against the Russell, over the past 6-months. CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE Small caps have been almost...
by Chris Kimble | Jan 20, 2016 | Kimble Charting
In an attempt to reduce investor bias and to get a different view of chart patterns, I invert charts (turn them upside down). Two weeks today, ago the Power of the Pattern shared the chart below, reflecting that the Russell 2000 inverted (same pattern for the inverse...
by Chris Kimble | Jan 6, 2016 | Kimble Charting
This article was first shared on See It Market.com The Russell 2000 and small caps stocks spent 2015 largely underperforming their large cap brethren (i.e. the S&P 500). And that has brought the Russell 2000 Index (RUT) to a critical test. In fact, this could be...
by Chris Kimble | Dec 22, 2015 | Kimble Charting
CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE Mid-Cap 400 (MDY) and Russell Small Cap 2000 (RUT) remain inside of clean multi-year rising channels. Each has made a series of lower highs since the peaks this past summer. It has paid to buy each of these on rising support, will it be...
